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Gaetano’s, Swindon
I was a bit apprehensive about going out for dinner with three somewhat fussy young children, whose idea of a restaurant is an American fast food chain. We decided to go to an Italian restaurant, where there would be something on the menu for everyone
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Buying abroad show
THIS weekend Parador Properties overseas exhibitions will be in Swindon to offer tips on buying abroad. The company will be at the Thistle Hotel, Fleming Way, both days from 10am until 5pm, when visitors will have the opportunity to talk face-to-face
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Make tracks for this wine offer
First Great Western is helping its customers take a little piece of their journey home through a new partnership with the company's wine supplier. For many years, First Great Western has offered complimentary wine to first class customers to help them
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Firm to spread the word after £250,000 boost
Exciting growth plans are set to become a reality for a voice, video and data conference company following investment by South West Ventures Fund. VQ Communica-tions Ltd has secured £250,000 from the fund, which was established to make venture capital
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Cup winners
SWINDON Town Ladies won the Under 10 Cup after surviving a brave fightback from Cricklade. Town Ladies were 3-0 up before Cricklade fought back to 3-2 but they couldn't find an equaliser. Two further goals from Swindon completed the win. Swindon's
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Six appeal!
Wiltshire Premier Division side Aldbourne are holding their six-a-side tournament on Sunday, May 21 starting at 10.30am. Places are still available for a small number of teams, please telephone Janice Kuczynski on 01793 347036.
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Soccer skills
BLUEPRINT Chiseldon Youth Football Club are inviting players to a football skills day on Saturday. The day will start at 10am at Chiseldon Rec, finishing at 3pm and is open to boys and girls between the ages of six and 16-years-old. The club is
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Signs are good as Impact picks up design award
Impact, the Swindon international exhibition, display and sign contractors, has won the best stand design award at the International Direct Marketing Show at Earls Court. David Jackson, Impact's managing director, was delighted with the news. "So often
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Bankruptcy is on the increase
More people in Swindon are going broke and declaring themselves bankrupt. Figures just released show that the number of people, while small, has doubled since this time last year and there is every chance that the increase will continue. And those people
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Why change your stance?
I NOTICE that Coun Allsopp has added his voice, publicly, to that of Coun Thompson in opposing the funding system for the wardens' scheme. I find their position very strange given that all the Labour group present at the full council meeting on February
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Brunel thanks
LAST September I had a right knee replacement, and I have just had my left knee done. May I send my heartfelt thanks to everyone at the Brunel Treatment Centre for the way they looked after me. Nothing was too much trouble, so kind and caring. (Mrs)
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Out on a limb
I READ recently where a man in Kuligaon in North India after a row with his wife decided to retire to the top branches of a tree. If John Prescott decides to do this, would he then be well and truly out on a limb? D BENFIELD Hawkswood Covingham, Swindon
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Woan rubbing shoulders with Staunton & Co
IAN Woan trusts a spot of shoulder-rubbing with an international manager will help his own efforts to bring through the stars of tomorrow. And as for the young players who have been handed their senior bow ahead of the 2006/07 campaign, Woan is confident
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MPs must aid council
NOW that the council has been voted in, and the people of Swindon have voted for whom they wish, will it be too much to ask for our two MPs to get behind the council and support them and help to take this town forward? No more silly figures on fly-tipping
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No-show costs are theoretical
YOUR recent feature (SA, May 12) about missed hospital appointments is a little misleading. Firstly the cost' is somewhat theoretical. Clinics are often over-booked, either deliberately or through urgent cases being squeezed in. How many readers have
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Is anyone heeding the lessons from Iraq?
SOMETHING horrible happens in Iraq and then they pay someone a lot of money to investigate and then they trot out the same old phrases... no money no communications, nobody to blame. This has happened so often that we don't have to have investigations
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Nurses paid by day, not patient
IN reference to your headline What another waste of money', dealing with patients who miss appointments, I could never understand the rules of accountancy that postulate that money is wasted when appointments are missed. Whatever happened to Next'?
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No flying the Robins’ nest just yet...
SUMMER signings have yet to materialise at the County Ground but neither is there any indication that anyone under contract is about to fly the nest. While most of the interest surrounds out of contract players Rhys Evans and Sean O'Hanlon, relegation
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Phil’s garden on the move
A SWINDON garden designer has won a prestigious award. Phil Osman has won a silver medal at the Malvern Spring Show for the Garden of Celebration he entered. And the garden is now being uprooted ready to move to its permanent home at the Prospect Hospice
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A wise choice?
EXCLUSIVE: FORMER Chelsea duo Dennis Wise and Gus Poyet are being lined up to lead Swindon Town's bid for promotion next season. The Swindon Advertiser believes Wise has been interviewed for the manager's role at the County Ground and that he would
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Hard work is rewarded
STUDENTS wanting to get into the world of work that little bit sooner have been rewarded for their efforts. Hundreds of students came together for an award ceremony at Swindon's Citifaith church yesterday evening to see friends get rewarded for their
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Skydive with the Red Devils
THE Wiltshire Blind Association is offering the parachute jump of a lifetime at South Cerney. It is working with the Red Devils display team, pictured left, which is offering people the chance to skydive with them, in aid of the blind organisation.
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All sewn up for Prospect
EIGHTEEN quilts have been presented to the Prospect hospice. Members of Golden Lion Quilters have spent the last six months making the blankets for the Wroughton hospice. "They do such a lot for people who have been diagnosed as terminally ill. "One
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Bid to set up group to assist widows
DIANA Gough is hoping to set up a support group for widows in Swindon. The 63-year-old from Oxford lost her husband nine years ago and says that the National Association of Widows saved her life. Now she wants help people living Swindon who have lost
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Industrial death verdict
A MAN who moved from Wales to work on the Swindon railways died after being exposed to asbestos. Idris Lapham was 16 when he started work as a carriage and wagon examiner on the railway works. He retired in 1991 and in October last year he died of an
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‘Hands off the Goddard Arms’
A WOMAN wants to start a campaign to save the Goddard Arms Hotel in Old Town. As the Adver reported last week developers have submitted plans to knock down part of the hotel, leaving just 10 bedrooms and build 43 family homes on the site. But Sandra
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Next set to create new jobs
FASHION-CONSCIOUS Swindon residents will soon have a new place to flash their cash when a new clothing store opens its doors in a week's time. Next is opening a new store at the Greenbridge Retail Park and will offer a wide range of clothes for all ages
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The top team - nine cabinet members named
SWINDON Council's cabinet has shrunk in the latest reshuffle with its leader promising a new "green" manifesto. Conservative group leader Roderick Bluh foreshadowed the changes ahead of the council meeting on Friday expected to ratify his appointment
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Hairdressers do it in style
STYLISTS from a Swindon salon have been cutting it up with the cream of the South West's hairdressers. The team from Chartz Hair and Beauty in Cricklade Road, Gorse Hill snapped up seven top honours in the 55th Annual South West Hair Styling Championships
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Final hours 'a mystery'
MYSTERY surrounds the final hours that led to the death of an alcoholic who may have injected himself with insulin. Andrew Bien, 28, of Walcot Road, was found dead in his cousin's bedroom on September 23 last year. When a post mortem examination was
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St Sampson pupils are sew dedicated to project
THEY say a stitch in time saves nine. But children at St Sampson's school, in Cricklade, have been helping to sew nearly 90,000 stitches on three new kneelers for St Sampson's church. All 240 pupils at the school are being invited to help by sewing
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Help pledge is welcome
ONE of the country's leading legal experts on asbestos-related diseases has backed the Government's pledge to ensure faster compensation for mesothelioma victims and their families. John Hutton, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions announced
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Call to all creative types from university
PEOPLE thinking about returning to education are being invited to take part in an advice week. The University of Bath in Swindon is hosting a free creative arts and advice week next month. It will give people over the age of 21 a chance to find out
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Youth service on the lookout for volunteers
SWINDON Youth Service is looking for volunteers. The service is holding an information day on Monday to show the good work it does in the town. The day will show the activities and support the service offers, from running youth clubs for 13 to 19-year-olds
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‘This dog needs to be caught quickly’
NICKY Knowles has been left traumatised after her cat was savagely attacked and killed by a dog just metres from her home. A Staffordshire bull terrier set upon the 17-year-old tabby cat on Sunday afternoon. And Ms Knowles, a housewife, is now terrified
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Addict stole from own family to feed ‘raging’ habit
A HOMELESS heroin addict who stole from his own family to fund his drug habit has been sent to prison. Paul Bruce, 23, of no fixed address, was sentenced to nine months behind bars at Swindon Magistrates' Court yesterday after pleading guilty to two
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Swindon’s PCT saved from axe
SWINDON'S Primary Care Trust has been saved from the axe, the Government has announced. Health minister Andy Burnham confirmed yesterday that the Government would ignore a recommendation from south west health chiefs to merge Swindon PCT with its Wiltshire
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Dr Who has time to help
Dr Who star David Tennant and Swindon's Billie Piper have donated a signed script to donate to charity. Tennant, 35, who grew up in Paisley, has given a signed copy of his script from the Christmas special to a charity fashion event. Hatwalk 2006,
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Thugs targeted cyclist in attack
TWO young thugs have been jailed for an unprovoked attack on a cyclist in a Rodbourne park. Jason Davey and Steven Brown decided to assault the next person who passed them after another cyclist had made a comment about their drunken behaviour. And the
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Appeal after bag snatch
A WOMAN was knocked to the ground by a thief who stole her handbag. The 56-year-old was walking along Southampton Street, from York Road when the robber struck at 9pm on Sunday. After grabbing the black leather bag he ran off towards Northampton Street
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Did you see this fight?
AN argument between two car drivers turned into a fight in Purton. Police want to hear from witnesses who might have seen the driver of a blue Smart car and a silver or grey-coloured Ford Focus who were fighting near the Angel pub in the High Street.
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Opinion is divided in dispersal order vote
READERS are split as to whether or not a dispersal order is the best way to solve anti-social behaviour in Highworth. On Monday we reported that the police had introduced a six-month dispersal order on the Newburgh Place, including the area in front
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Hercs may be in action against Taliban troops
LYNEHAM'S Hercules planes might be helping to take on Taliban troops in the middle of Afghanistan. But the giant planes, also dubbed Fat Alberts, are also being used to help bring home servicemen and women to be with their families in the quickest possible
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Woman in rape claim pays price
A 20-YEAR-OLD woman who wasted more than 200 hours of police time when she lied about being raped has been ordered to repay the community. Limara Crewe, of Conan Doyle Walk, Liden, was told to do 150 hours of unpaid work when she appeared at Swindon
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Mum and Dad - the most wonderful words in the world...
A 12-year-old autistic boy has said "mum" and "dad" for the first time. His parents standing in a room next to their son were astonished to hear him say the words. And the family, who have just returned from a two-week revolutionary treatment programme
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Mum and Dad - the most wonderful words in the world...
A 12-year-old autistic boy has said "mum" and "dad" for the first time. His parents standing in a room next to their son were astonished to hear him say the words. And the family, who have just returned from a two-week revolutionary treatment programme
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Lloyd’s flat out to raise charity cash
FRESH from running the London Marathon in a suit of armour and riding around Australia on a penny farthing bicycle, wacky fundraiser Lloyd Scott has taken up a new challenge travelling to Land's End from John O'Groats with a flat tyre. Lloyd was on
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Cyclist smashed car windscreen
THE victim of a road rage attack who had his window punched in by a cyclist says the culprit must be caught before he strikes again. Chris Cooper, 50, was driving with two women passengers when he beeped a man on a bike for cutting them up. The next
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Police plea after £5,000 barn fire
POLICE want to speak to a group of children after a barn was set alight near Purton. As reported in yesterday's Adver, it happened on Monday between 4pm and 5.30pm along Restrop Road in Purton. The barn was set on fire causing around £5,000 worth of
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Savings stolen from pensioner
A PENSIONER has had her savings stolen after letting in three men who claimed they were there to inspect the drains. The incident happened in Bellver, Toothill, yesterday at about 2.20pm. The three were allowed into the elderly woman's house. While
