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Kids cuddle up with host of baby animals
YOUNGSTERS enjoyed all the fun of the farm as they got hands-on with some furry friends earlier this week. Children from the Greendown Playgroup were delighted when some special guests turned up at the group, based at the Lydiard Academy, on Tuesday.
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Put thinking caps on for this literary event
ORGANISERS of this year’s Swindon Festival of Literature are hoping a few lightbulbs will come on among those attending talks. The full programme of events was revealed at Swindon Central Library yesterday with some well-known names attending, meaning
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Union set for a showdown
THE GMB posse rode in from the south and along Victoria Road. They were on their way to a tussle with the Carillion gang down at the Great Western Hospital. Now, as regular readers of this newspaper know, the posse says the gang’s been
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Pedalling to help out
PEDAL power is will push a campaign to get a toddler an operation that could get him walking. Three-year-old Jack Pike, of Penhill, suffers from spastic diplegia cerebral palsy, which means the muscles in his legs do not work properly. But a £23,000
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Old kit gives footy team a new buzz
BUDDING football stars in Africa are buzzing with excitement after wearing kit donated to them by a local junior club. Wanborough Junior Football Club, nicknamed the Wasps, has donated their previous season’s football kit – including jackets
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SPEEDWAY RESULT: Swindon Robins 53, Somerset Rebels 41
CHALLENGE MEETING FIRST LEG, ABBEY STADIUM SWINDON ROBINS: Troy Batchelor (1*-2*-3-1*-1*)8+4, Nick Morris (2-3-3-1)9, Simon Stead (2-R-3-3)8, Peter Kildemand (R-2-1-2)5, Hans Andersen (3-3-3-2-2)13, Kenny Ingalls (1*-2*-0-1*)4+3, Robin Aspegren
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One unlucky break for mother and tot
MOTHER Sian Troupe is keen to warn other families about the lack of support they received from their tour operator after their baby was hospitalised on their ‘holiday from hell’. A week’s trip to Thomson’s flagship 5*plus Sansatori resort in Tenerife
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Judge says head-butt dad can see partner
A JUDGE has removed a restraining order on a man who head-butted his estranged partner at a shopping centre play area on Father’s Day, after she said she wanted him back. Craig Harfield was told he would no longer be able to have contact with the mother
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Barnardo’s says goodbye to project
CHILDREN’S charity Barnardo’s is bidding a fond farewell to a Swindon project which has transformed hundreds of local lives. Barnardo’s South West has managed the Robert Le Kyng Sure Start children’s centre in Westcott Street since it first opened in
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Love is in the air for orchestra
It will be romance all the way this weekend when the Swindon Symphony Orchestra strike up in aid of the Prospect Hospice. The concert features romantic works from Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824-1910). At the Leipzig Conservatoire Carl
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The Welshman is on fire
BARRIE HUDSON previews a sell-out show from a comedian who can seemingly do nothing wrong RHOD Gilbert returns to the Wyvern Theatre for another sellout show tomorrow. The fans who were lucky enough to bag tickets for his Work In Progress Preview
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Sounds for the Eighties
SOUL superstar Alexander O’Neal is heading for Swindon next week, alongside reggae giants Aswad and jazz funksters Shakatak. Alexander has a multi musical genre background, mixing up dance, pop, modern ballads, a hint of rock ‘n’ roll and sweet soul.
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Couple are big rivals
ONE Town fan will have more riding on a Swindon cup win this weekend than anyone else as he will have to travel home to Chesterfield with his Blues-supporting wife – win or lose. James Collis, who grew up in Swindon before moving to Chesterfield when
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Residents want an end to car ban
AN EXPERIMENTAL ban on drivers leaving and entering a housing estate during certain hours of the day could soon be suspended – just weeks after it was put in place. A 12-month traffic order preventing motorists from turning into Queensfield from Cricklade
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Echoes of a royal date
King of jazz Duke Ellington composed The Queen’s Suite after being enchanted by a meeting with Queen Elizabeth ll. He recorded it on vinyl and sent it to Buckingham Palace and it was never played again until now. The suite will be performed for the
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Sounds Around Town with Dave Franklin
After a couple of weeks experimenting with different stylistic approaches to this column, an attempt to appease various critics, I have come to rather a startling conclusion. Irrespective of whichever criteria I use to determine its content, the old adage
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Hoosiers morph from wacky into reality
Kooky odd popsters The Hoosiers have come back down to earth taking up various solo projects alongside writing their new album. Alphonso the mad, mustached wonder is now simply Alan Sharland. “We morphed into the need for reality and
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Bodin heads to Crewe
BILLY Bodin has moved on loan to Crewe Alexandra for the rest of the season. The striker returned from a loan spell at Torquay in January and quickly established himself in Paolo Di Canio's first team, scoring a couple of crucial goals. However
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Bostock joins Swindon
Tottenham midfielder John Bostock has joined Swindon on loan until the end of the season. The 20-year-old had recently returned to White Hart Lane from League One Sheffield Wednesday, where he had been on loan since January. Spurs boss
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Town pursue Bostock
TOTTENHAM midfielder John Bostock could be set for a loan switch to Swindon before the window shuts today, the Advertiser understands. Paolo Di Canio has made no secret of his desire to bring in a central midfielder for the end-of-season
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Choir presents popular work
THE Swindon Choral Society will be performing Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah with professional soloists and full orchestra on Saturday. The work has been popular with audiences since it was commissioned for the Birmingham Festival of 1846. The concert
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Choir is heading for the borders
THE Wessex Male Choir from Swindon will be travelling to the Welsh borders to perform at the Minsterley Eisteddfod gala concert this weekend. The choir will treat the audience to pieces from its varied repertoire, including My Way, I Dreamed A Dream
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Read this book or the Daleks will exterminate you!
BOOKWORMS were treated to an out-of-this-world storytelling session at the weekend. The event was part of a time traveller-themed event at the Central Library on Saturday, which saw Daleks invading the building and special storytime and workshops events
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Team pitches in to raise money for cancer charities
A LOCAL football team are hoping to raise more than £5,000 at a charity football evening later this month. Old Town United are holding the event at the County Ground on March 29 to raise money for Prospect Hospice, Macmillan Cancer Support, Cancer Research
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Warning over Olympics tickets adverts
POLICE in Wiltshire are warning the public of some recent advertisements that have appeared in national and international media advertising tickets for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The advertisements just feature a mobile phone number or email
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Spirit Of 76 lives on
Dave Sharp, formerly of 1970s alternative rock band The Alarm, is popping into Swindon tonight. The guitarist will be playing a free gig in the bar at The Vic in Old Town from 8pm. Dave has played with a number of top names in his time including
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Will Chancellor deliver promise
THE budget 2012 has been delivered by Chancellor George Osborne – so what’s in it for Swindon? Yesterday he outlined plans to kick-start the economy through cutting corporation tax by an additional one per cent, relaxing Sunday trading during the London
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Use all digits to ring home
PEOPLE living in Swindon will soon have to tap in all 11 digits to ring anyone else living in the town – even their next door neighbour. As the town continues to grow at a rapid pace, Ofcom has warned that they are running out of new telephone numbers
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‘She didn’t resist...then she started to cry'
A MAN accused of raping a woman in a resturant car park said the victim only got upset when she thought she might be pregnant. Fareed Issa Tariq appeared at Swindon Crown Court yesterday for the third day of a trial where he stands accused
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Town tops league for safest driving
SWINDON may be home to one of the world’s most infamous road junctions and it has banned speed cameras but it has been named the safest town to drive in the UK. Research compiled by insurer Staveley Head examined accident rates, casualties and
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Show your allegiance to Town on telly
IF YOU are a Town fan then Sky Sports needs you. This weekend, Saturday morning favourite Soccer AM is looking for four Swindon fans and four Chesterfield fans to appear on the show. Every Saturday, the fans of the week take to the now
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Jamie’s bike stolen from school minutes after arrival
A SCHOOLBOY had his bike stolen from the school shed after the thief cut through the lock. Jamie Lovegrove, 14, of Walcot, parked his bike in the Dorcan Academy shed just before 8am on Tuesday and CCTV shows someone taking the bike at about 8.05am.
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Birthday no one thought he’d live to see
LITTLE fighter Rory Bartram will celebrate his first birthday next week – a day his family feared they would never see. Rory was born with a heart defect that required open heart surgery when he was just nine days old. Now, to show their thanks to the
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You’ll match our heroics of 1969
TOWN legends have drawn parallels between the 1969 double-winning team and Paolo Di Canio’s current crop as they look forward to this weekend’s Wembley date. The Johnstone’s Paint Trophy final against Chesterfield this Sunday will be the first
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The spotlight falls on railway service
THE RECORD of First Great Western went under scrutiny at a consultation to find out what the public want from Swindon’s next passenger train operator. The franchise to operate the services is up for grabs, and the meeting was held so local people’s views
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Driver injured after high-speed chase
A DRIVER who evaded officers in a high-speed nine-mile car chase was caught by a police car as he tried to flee on foot. The 30-year-old man, from Swindon, raced away from police who had asked him to pull over while travelling along the A4361 near Winterbourne
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TENNIS: Hunt claims third title of 2012
WANBOROUGH’S Louise Hunt clinched her third women’s doubles title of 2012 as she teamed up with fellow Brit Lucy Shuker to claim the crown at the Northern Counties Wheelchair Tennis Tournament in Sunderland. The pair beat Dorrie Timmermans
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The Paolo Di Canio Column
Paolo on...managing the disappointment from players not selected for Wembley. As usual I don’t look or even feel sorry. I am a determined manager and my focus in on selecting the best 11 and making the least mistakes I can. It is a big responsibility
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McEveley arrives while Cibo receives injury boost
JAY McEveley has completed the formalities of his loan move to Swindon after successfully coming through a medical. The Barnsley full-back was exclusively revealed as Paolo Di Canio’s latest acquisition by the Advertiser yesterday morning,
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Tough test ahead as Robins face the Rebels
SWINDON boss Alun Rossiter believes tonight’s challenge meeting first leg against Somerset will be far from a one-sided affair. There is traditionally a marked gap in quality between top and second-tier sides, but Rossiter insists changes in
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Hoddle praises Di Canio impact
GLENN Hoddle hailed the impact Paolo Di Canio has had at Swindon and called on everyone connected with the club to cherish the moment when they play at Wembley on Sunday. The former England boss was at the County Ground on Tuesday night to be inducted
