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There's a new guitar in town
A NEW guitar school will be hitting the right chord with local musicians. The Kit Hawes Guitar School opens for business in a purpose-built studio on the side of the guitarist's home in West Swindon. Kit, 20, will be giving lessons in electric and acoustic
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Thamesdown Transport - No Change But Free Entertainment On Board!
I was on the bus the other day, with the dangerous one. We were on a school trouser mission. My lanky son had decided to have yet another growth spurt, hence the need for new school trousers. The bus was quite crowded, with it being a Saturday. Fortunately
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Football hooligans brought to book
THE exploits of football hooligans associated with Swindon Town has been retold in a new book. Hooligans 2, which goes on sale today has taken co-authors Nick Lowles and Andy Nicholls two years to research and put together. It has information on more
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Trees start to grow near bypass
THOUSANDS of trees are bringing a stretch of new road around Swindon to life. Work on the £65.5m Blunsdon bypass has been progressing since 2006 and Highways Agency staff behind the scheme are predicting it will be ready by next winter. But now for
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Hundreds left without water as air gets trapped in pipe
WATER supplies to homes across southern Swindon dried up yesterday, after workmen allowed air bubbles to disrupt the system. Staff from Thames Water were working on a pipe at a development site on Thursday morning and trapped air bubbles into a sealed
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Mobile madness
POLICE are concerned people still have not got the message about the dangers of using a mobile phone while driving. Wiltshire officers are repeating warnings to drivers, as they believe some have become complacent a year after stricter rules were brought
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Audiology team slashes waiting times
WAITING times for digital hearing aids have been slashed from two years to just two weeks at Swindon's Great Western Hospital. And that makes the hospital's audiology department one of the most efficient in the south west. Staff have worked through
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Friendly competition
Grrrrr! Rather annoyed at self as I've stayed the same this week - but having had little time to exercise and going away for the weekend, it was never going to be a great one. Now it would all be rather fine if it was just my mini-failure to deal with
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Henry's mum hits out at Ridgeway School
THE mother of Henry Webster has criticised Ridgeway School for making no "efforts to assist" her family after the "wholly avoidable" assault on her son. Henry 17, from Wroughton, was attacked on the tennis courts at the school in January last year. He
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Another one bites the dust!!!
Not even out of Feb and we have already got our first member this year to target. A big well done to Clare. I am so proud of her. She lost a fantastic one and a half stones in weight. I honestly belive we get a much higher proportion of our members
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Melinda tells of her hell after births
MODEL mum Melinda Messenger has sent out a message of hope to women suffering from post-natal depression. Every year thousands of women suffer clinical depression after giving birth. And with Mother's Day approaching it is estimated that one in 10 new
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The Radnor Arms, Corston
AFTER a night on the town my boyfriend and I decided that our Saturday should revolve around finding a decent lunch. Our search took us to Corston where we pulled into The Radnor Arms. Having driven past this imposing building by the A429 several times
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Pupils reach for the stars
TOWN schoolchildren with a talent for film-making will be rubbing shoulders with Hollywood stars next week. A documentary by pupils from Isambard Community School has been nominated for a prestigious First Lights Movie Award. The children will visit
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The walls came tumbling down
IT ONCE provided a safe haven for Swindon's homeless. But Davis House will soon be no more after demolition teams moved in this week. The former Salvation Army-owned hostel will be razed to the ground as part of ongoing plans to transform Swindon town
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Sitting pretty
KATY Palmer, of Grange Park, sent in this picture saying doesn't her cat look really cute?
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Baby Tristan is our very special smiler
A BABY has been rewarded for his brave struggle against cancer. Tristan Bamford, who is only five and half months old, has endured gruelling treatment for neuroblastoma, a very rare form of cancer. He has been honoured with Cancer Research UK's Little
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Banoffee Pie & Chicken Soup
Its been a couple of weeks since my last blogg, mainly because I have been so busy I haven' really had much time. I celebrated my second wedding anniversary last week and my birthday and went up to Norfolk to stay with my mum for a couple of days. I went
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Car park may house new medical centre
LASER eye surgery, non-evasive cosmetic surgery and botox treatments could be available from a new medical centre in Gorse Hill. A planning application for the centre in Kembrey Street has been submitted to Swindon Council and if granted would see an
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Purple skyline by Sarah Runniff
Purple skyline,on a distant shore.A land once Paradise.But no-one comes here anymore.Only footprints,left by others here before.As they landed on the beaches,and ran to take their place in war.Twisted metal,from the war machines of man.Burning in the
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First hammer trial: guilty verdicts revealed
SEVEN teenagers have been convicted of attacking schoolboy Henry Webster with a claw hammer, it can be revealed today. Henry, 17, from Wroughton, was attacked at Ridgeway School in January last year. Four teenagers - Wasif Khan, 18, Amjad Qazi, 19,
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Make your dream reality
AS spring approaches individuals across the region are tuning back into their personal aspirations. Many have a burning ambition to be their own boss and are spending time poring over cashflow forecasts and drawing up business launch plans. Barclays
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BOWLS: Sictorness & Co through to nationals
WESTLECOT will be represented in the fours event at the English Indoor Bowling Association National Championships in Nottingham at the beginning of April. The quartet of Barry Sictorness, John Thomas, Graham Hatherall and Neil Smith clinched their place
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Things are warming up at last
Things are looking a bit better now. The wind has picked up and we are back to some nice downwind sailing. We rounded the bottom of Japan last night, and now have begun our Pacific crossing. It is also warming up slowly and I have been able to shed
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Review the Steeples
The Steeples stand head and shoulders above the current crop of wannabe stars, indeed they tower above some of the established indie rocksters in the charts. These four Scousers headed down to The Beehive pub in Old Town, Swindon, with all the panache
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Smokers waste a year of working life
THE average smoker wastes a year of their working life taking cigarette breaks. By taking an average of three fifteen-minute fag breaks a day, a smoker can cost an employer up to 195 working hours each year. And research shows that the smoking ban has
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BOWLS: Westlecot upset odds in title bid
WESTLECOT men stayed on course for a place in the final to be staged on their own green in April, and kept alive their hopes of winning the Wessex League play-offs and overall title for the fourth time. In the last 16 and first round of the play-offs
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BOWLS: Teenage sensation Kyle set for indoor championship
WESTLECOT teenager Kyle Anderson competes in his first national indoor championship final this weekend. The 15-year-old Ridgeway student, who lives in Wanborough, has qualified for the last 32 in the under 25 singles championship. He has been drawn
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Stratton is at heart of new project
PEOPLE in Stratton turned out last night for the beginning of an exciting new web project being run by the Swindon Advertiser. The project - called Your Stratton - will see a new section created within the Adver's website dedicated to the Stratton area
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Turkish Delights Catering, Trowbridge
A TURKISH catering company from Trowbridge is promising a feast fit for kings as part of its new venture. A Sultan's Buffet or an Ottoman's Business Lunch are just some of the catering options offered by Turkish Delights Catering. Owner Victoria Kisioglu
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School closed until further notice
LETHBRIDGE Primary School is closed until further notice after a watermanin ruptured in Bath Road, Old Town this morning. All 487 pupils were turned away this morning because the school as been left without running water and flushing toilets. Admin
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Sleepyhead
Paula Rutherford caught her two-year-old son Andrew Rutherford taking a nap on the chair.
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Lewis leads the rout
JOEY LEWIS and Loris Taylor both notched hat-tricks as Swindon Leopards thrashed Invicta Junior Dynamos Under 16 side 13-3 at the Link Centre on Saturday. Lewis, below, scored five times, including a straight hat-trick in the space of 79 seconds in the
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Sun sets on Highworth duo
HIGHWORTH'S Shelly Taunt and co-driver Julie Murphy were forced to retire from last week's Rallye Sunseeker after their Subaru Impreza suffered a gearbox failure, writes GARETH MOORHOUSE. The pair had manoeuvred into 38th place overall before a mechanical
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Rosco: 'We'll make play-offs'
ALUN Rossiter has urged the merchants of doom to carry on writing off Robins' 2008 Elite League chances - but insists his side will be play-off contenders this season. The Blunsdon chief believes the critics are in for a big surprise when his line-up
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Medal magic for Esprit
ELITE gymnasts from Swindon's Esprit club dominated proceedings at the National Duets and Trio Championships in Burton-on-Trent. The event brought together the country's top gymnasts to compete in pairs or in groups of three, working in synchronised
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Swindon's schools are climbing the rankings
See tables of schools in Swindon IMPROVING education at Swindon's secondary schools has once again helped the town climb a national results league table. The tables compare performances of schools up and down the country based on their pupils'
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Packet in!
AN ANGRY recycler has been told that items in her rubbish bin can no longer be picked up because they don't pass the scrunch test'. Sarah Odey, of Bilborough Drive, Walcot, says that she was dismayed when she discovered 40 crisps wrappers were left
