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‘My unusual talent can shine through’
IT WAS only a few months ago when Swindon’s Clifford Hewer discovered he had a unusual talent – he can sing with a bottle or a cereal bowl in his mouth. Clifford, 75, from Walcot, has one ambition – to appear on television in front of talent
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Countdown under way for Swindon Half Marathon
WITH just 20 weeks to go before the Nationwide Swindon Half Marathon, the Adver is launching a weekly feature to help fledgling runners find their feet and go the distance. Every week we will be writing about the best running advice including
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Wiltshire Council says staff stranded by ash will be paid
WILTSHIRE Council staff who were stranded abroad because of the Icelandic volcanic ash will be paid for their time off work. In an unprecedented move by the unitary authority, they have decided that workers grounded by the ash last month will
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Swings ain't what they used to be at Wentworth
PRACTICE does not always make perfect. Just ask David Howell. The Broome Manor pro skipped last week’s Madrid Masters to hone his game for the BMW Championship at his adopted home course of Wentworth but the extra coaching did not prove a complete success
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SPEEDWAY RESULT: Swindon Robins 44, Poole Pirates 52
SKY SPORTS ELITE LEAGUE, ABBEY STADIUM SWINDON ROBINS 44: Leigh Adams (2-6^-2-3-1)14, Morten Risager (0-1-0-0)1, Mads Korneliussen (1-1-F-1)3, Grzegorz Zengota (0-0-3-6^)9, Simon Stead (3-3-2-2*-3)13+1, Justin Sedgmen (2-1-1-0-0)4, Jordan
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Time running out to enter Starlight Walk
REGISTRATION for this year’s Prospect Starlight Walk will close on May 30. The women-only walk, which takes place on June 26, is Prospect Hospice’s biggest fundraising event of the year. Last year 650 walkers raised £65,000 towards the
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Speakers line up to entertain
Alan Fletcher, from Swindon’s Guide Dogs For The Blind, will be speaking at a meeting of the Swindon Ridgeway Townswomen’s Guild next month. The event will take place at Lawn Community Centre on June 22 between 1.30pm and 4.15pm. Other talks planned
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Players put shoulders behind forces' charity
RUGBY players did their bit to support troops fighting abroad. Wootton Bassett Rugby Club took on the Bielefield Barbarians – a British Army team based at a garrison in Germany. The match, at the Wootton Bassett team’s ground on Saturday, was part of
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Letter from Chris Youett
THROUGH your columns I would like to apologise to the Friends of Swindon Railway Museum for being unable to give my slide show on the railways of West and Central Wales on Monday. I was struck down by a mystery chest bug which caused me to cough up regularly
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Finding out about park's birdlife
BIRDWATCHERS are being invited to get their binoculars out for a special walk around Lydiard Park on Sunday. Head warden Chris Walker will be leading the three-hour walk, which will take in the park’s woods, lakes and open fields, to identify the birds
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Twin role for town's mayor
Highworth’S mayor has travelled to Germany for a twinning ceremony. Councillor Pauline Webster visited Wassenberg to sign a special charter to twin the two towns. The ceremony was held at a local school hall attended by over 200 guests from the towns
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St Jo's proms night a spectacular success
PUPILS celebrated the end of the schooling years at their prom night. Around 180 Year 11 pupils and 12 staff from St Joseph’s Catholic College attended the now traditional event at Swindon’s Hilton Hotel, off Wootton Bassett Road. Pupils chose a variety
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Train company is right on time
FIRST Great Western has one of the highest number of trains arriving on time, according to the latest train performance records released by Network Rail. The train firm continues to outperform its targets, with an annual average of 92.4 per cent of trains
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Have you got specs appeal?
SEXY spec wearers are being sought in Swindon. Specsavers in Regent Street, Swindon will be on the lookout for models this Saturday as part of a nationwide search to find the Spectacle Wearer of the Year 2010, while raising money for charity. Specsavers
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Lifesaver device earns teenager award
A TEENAGE engineer has scooped several awards at US science fair for a device which could be used to save lives. James Popper, a student from Marlborough College, has been praised by fire chiefs for the design, which detects kitchen fires without setting
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Our season is about to reach boiling point
AFTER 46 games, 73 goals and just two home defeats, this is it. It comes down to potentially three matches to decide whether we will be playing at the Riverside Stadium or Spotland next season. Tonight’s match against Charlton will be a fantastic
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MPs due to be sworn in at the Commons
SWINDON’S two new Conservative MPs are due to be sworn in later today. The historic ceremony will mean that Justin Tomlinson, the new MP for North Swindon and Robert Buckland, the new MP for South Swindon, can both officially take their seats as members
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80s star pulls out of concert
PAGE 3 pin up and pop star Sam Fox has cancelled her gig in Swindon this evening. Sam, who recently took part in the TV reality show I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here, was due to perform at the Oasis leisure centre today as part of her Touch Me Again
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Catastrophic
Well it’s been a long time since I have written a blog – too long! But life in the shoe has been even more busy then usual and we have been plagued by poor health. First of all I had what appeared to be a nasty virus that just wouldn’t go away.
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Letter from Robert Webb
I WISH to take this opportunity to applaud the head teachers of Goddard Park Primary School and Grange Junior School who refused to take part in the sats tests this year. What I find surprising is that many more heads did not take the same action and
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Letter from Les Fox
WE HAVE heard all about the so-called horrors of smoking etc. But what about the horrors of war, drink, drugs, obesity and road deaths? If a person has 10 cigarettes he does not go home and beat his wife and children or become a danger if he drives,
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BOWLS: County's junior men fall at first hurdle
WILTSHIRE junior men fell at the first hurdle in the White Rose Trophy, Men’s National County Under 25s Two Fours competition. In a close contest at Wootton Bassett on Sunday they were beaten 42-40 by Warwickshire in the first round of the west section
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BOWLS: Westlecot struggle in big match with Wiltshire
WESTLECOT men found life very tough as they faced Wiltshire in a special match to celebrate the club’s centenary. The game, which also doubled up as the first Middleton Cup trial of the 2010 campaign, saw the county side run-out 136-89 victors. Hosts
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Great start for Panthers
SWINDON Panthers started the 2010 season with eight players moving on or taking timeout from ice hockey. The new-look Panthers have brought in a few familiar names to Swindon hockey fans of old. Alan Bishop, who played with the Wildcats in the early
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Headteacher to retire after 23 years
POPULAR headteacher Paul Kohn is to retire this summer after 23 years of dedicated service at Liden Primary School in Swindon. Mr Kohn, 58,oversaw the multi-million pound project to merge the infant and junior schools in an improved building
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Doris, 103, queens it over all the rest
HARD work is the key to long life, according to Doris Spencer. The grandmother of two and great- grandmother of seven celebrated her 103rd birthday on Tuesday at the Orchards Residential Home, in Wroughton, where she is known as the Queen
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Cup joy for ENL side
THE Swindon ENL Wildcats ended their season on a high, winning the English National League Southern Cup by beating rivals Bristol Pitbulls 8-4 on aggregate over two closely fought games. Bristol started well in the first leg at the Link Centre, and took
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BOWLS: Richards trials for England once more
MICHAEL RICHARDS, one of Wiltshire’s bright young prospects has been handed another England junior trial after his fine achievements last season. He reached the semi-finals in the national singles in 2008 and last year won the Wiltshire singles championship
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Letter from Les Fox
I HAVE just read the letter from Big Ron of Penhill. To quote McEnroe “I don’t believe it.” He states that he will no longer be writing to Poet’s Corner - you can’t be serious Big Ron? Ron, please do not cease sending in your poems. What is needed in
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Our baby loss was made so much worse
A YOUNG mum said she was made to feel inhuman after giving birth to a stillborn baby at Great Western Hospital. Samantha Coulson, who gave birth to baby Stevie in October at just 17 weeks, has been unable to talk about her tragic loss until
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NETBALL: Thames remain unbeaten
THAMES A finished the 2009/10 season with an impressive undefeated record in Swindon & District League Division Five, securing promotion to Division Four next season. In the final match of the season against Wootton Bassett, Thames won 53-14. Thames
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Students cook up treat for Eric, 95
ERIC White celebrated his 95th birthday in style when students from a Swindon school cooked up a special treat. The pensioner tucked into a roast lunch and was presented with a home made birthday cake decorated in the shape of a parcel with
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SWINDON LEISURE LEAGUES 6-A-SIDE FOOTBALL ROUND UP
Booya showed that they are still very much involved in the Swindon St Joseph’s title race as Ian Starkey starred in their comfortable 4-1 win over Team Torin. Booya took full advantage of the top two sides above them dropping points as leaders
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BOWLS: Locals bow out
THE Wiltshire Women’s National Fours will be an all-Box affair after local clubs failed to reached the final of the competition. Three Box quartets were entered into the initial competition with two of those reaching the last eight. In the top half
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Your chance to date a beauty queen
LUCKY lads are being offered the amazing chance to date one of seven beauty pageant finalists to help raise hundreds of pounds for sick, disabled and disadvantaged children Seven Miss Wiltshire finalists – including Miss Swindon Emma Salter and Miss
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Sports bar’s ban angers town fans
A sports bar has angered Swindon Town fans after banning them from Monday night’s play-off match against Charlton. The supporters were turned away from the TP’s Sports Bar, formerly the Walkabout, in Fleet Street, after the management claimed
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Poole hoping for promotion bonus
SWINDON will have to hand over more money to non-league Poole Town if they earn promotion to the Championship in next Saturday’s play-off final at Wembley. But it will be a small price to pay for unearthing one of the hottest talents in the
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Smith's seen it all before
YOU would think being part of a play-off final involving Swindon Town would be a new experience for every single member of the current County Ground dressing room. But, amazingly, one player graced the hallowed turf at Wembley as Swindon
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Community shop is ready to open
A CHARITY shop manned by people with severe learning difficulties will soon open in Swindon. The store, which will open in the tented market in the town centre on June 7, is thought to be the first in the county and is aimed at helping the
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MALCOLM HOLLOWAY COLUMN: Changes may not be the best of ideas
SWINDON have had a bit of a disappointing start to the season but I’ve got mixed feelings about the idea of team manager Ronnie Russell making changes. On the one hand I think he has got to start looking somewhere else with a view to getting someone
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Russell tells riders not to be 'passengers'
SWINDON chief Ronnie Russell has warned his riders that he will not tolerate ‘passengers’ as he bids to turn round the Robins’ stuttering start to the campaign. The Blunsdon side currently lie seventh in the Elite League table following a hot-and-cold
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Greer laments 'worst moment in football'
GORDON Greer admits missing out on the League One play-off final will be his lowest moment in football, but Town’s suspended skipper will put personal disappointment to one side for the good of his team. The 29-year-old was given a straight
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Darren’s dilemma over his two loves
LIFELONG Swindon Town fan Darren Buzza will have to swap Wembley for the wedding chapel after a clash between his nuptials and the Robins’ Wembley date in the play-off finals. The 40-year-old will be tying the knot with ‘footie-widow’ Vicki
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Howell takes aim at Wentworth glory
DAVID Howell will be hoping memories of past success will be able to help him force a good result as he tackles the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey today. The Broome Manor pro has enjoyed a fortnight’s respite after his various
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Woodland burial site for Moonies
A RELIGIOUS sect has applied for planning permission to create a burial ground in a village near Swindon. The Family Federation For World Peace And Unification, more commonly known as the Moonies, has applied to Swindon Council to turn a field
