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Dirty condom in cash box is abominable
JOAN and Stan Williams have raised hundreds of pounds for the Prospect Hospice by showing off their Christmas lights. But this year they appear to have been targeted by a group of youths who are intent on stealing the money from the couple's collecting
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The Wait Goes On
ROY EVANS is still tussling with the toughest decision of his life as fans wait to hear if the director of football will stay at the County Ground. He was expected to lead training this morning but no 'showdown' talks were planned with the Town board.
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Setting the right sort of goals
A WORKSHOP is being set up in Swindon to develop employees' stress management skills. HR Excel, a staff develop-ment and training consul-tancy, claims one in five people in Wiltshire suffer from high levels of work-related stress. They have developed
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Catering staff have the recipe for success
SODEXHO employee, Sally Clare and her catering team at Honda in Swindon, have been rewarded for working so well together. They were presented with the Sodexho special team effort award at the firm's 2001 Gala Awards. Sally, who has worked at Honda as
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Hoping to get back on track
Cirencester Town are hoping for a swift return to winning ways tonight, after Saturday's 3-0 defeat at Chippenham. Ciren who had won four league games on the bounce before the weekend host fellow basement-dwellers Rocester at the Smithsfield Stadium.
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MP fields a gamut of questions from pupils
PUPILS from Churchfields School tackled South Swindon MP Julia Drown about a range of issues including drugs, Afghanistan and Sarah's Law. Ms Drown was visiting the school to answer questions from pupils and draw attention to the work of an MP. The questions
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Residents prepared to block bulldozers
ANY attempt to demolish Pinehurst People's Centre will be met by residents standing in front of bulldozers. That was the stark message to emerge from a public meeting held to discuss a radical Swindon Council proposal for the centre. It would involve
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How one dip in the till became £1.7m
THE verdict ends a saga that has taken months to go through the courts. Fraudster Beryl Rowlands' first dip in the Dunbar Bank till started a private bank account that snowballed into a £1.7m stash. She is already in jail for the theft, but the Swindon
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Shameful
YOUNG thugs have spoilt a Christmas lights show put on by pensioners Stan and Joan Williams to raise money for a cancer hospice. Mr and Mrs Williams, both 71, have been collecting money for Prospect Hospice for four years by putting up Christmas lights
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Qualified to man the door
THE image of "bouncers'' as thugs looking for a fight is being consigned to history in a Swindon educational course. So is the word "bouncer" the people in charge of letting customers in and keeping trouble out are now known as door supervisors. And their
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Jamiroquai's drummers raise the beat
DRUM fans flocked to a workshop taken by two members of top funk band Jamiroquai. Drummer Derrick McKenzie and percussionist Sola Akingbola came to Swindon to lead a drum workshop at New College in the town. The clinic was a full Latin percussion set
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My thanks to you
MAY I thank the person who kindly found and handed in my lost bank card. It is good to know such folk are about. Happy Christmas to you. (Mrs) JENNY COX Constable Road Swindon
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Hospital hunt
TO celebrate 150 years of caring for sick children in 2002, Great Ormond Street Hospital is on the hunt for past patients, nurses and doctors. Were you a patient, or the parent of a patient who benefited from pioneering surgery? Or perhaps you remember
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Amnesty thanks
WE would like to thank shoppers who contributed so generously to our Human Rights Day collection in Old Town Co-Op recently. We were delighted by the positive response. The £230 collected will go directly to Amnesty International's campaign for the protection
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Running could keep our ambulance flying
DOES anyone in Swindon hope to get a place in next April's Flora London Marathon, but has not yet decided which charity to run for? I urge you to run for one of Swindon and Wiltshire's most popular causes, the Wiltshire Air Ambulance. In recent years
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Losing theatre group is folly
If Sixth Sense Theatre pulls out of Swindon, then I wholeheartedly agree with Benedict Eccles that the town will indeed be 'a cultural desert' (EA, December 12). Sixth Sense has provided the youth of the area with hard-hitting, issue-based drama of superb
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Council must hear their view
SWINDON Council should today be left in no doubt about the strength of feeling in the community of Pinehurst about the possibility of bulldozers flattening their community centre. In fact they say they will physically attempt to stop the destruction of
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Firms team up to fight slump
Fibre optics group Bookham Technology has received a huge boost in a £19.7 million deal which will see it acquire the optical components arm of troubled telecom equipment group Marconi. Marconi is off-loading the division to Bookham Technology, which
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Runaway trio of hijackers is jailed
THUGS who brought terror to the South of England and Wales with a spree of professional ram-raids and hijackings and were later sprung in a courtroom gun attack, are back behind bars. One of the hijackings happened in Wootton Bassett, when a van driver
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Struggling Calne's tough test at Street
Screwfix strugglers Calne Town face a daunting midweek trek to Street this evening. Paul Rankin's men have an appalling record on the road this season. A run of seven successive away defeats including 7-0 and 6-0 drubbings finally came to an end ten days
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I can never orgive the man whp did this to my baby Sacha
THE heartbroken mother of little Sacha Iles, the baby killed by her father, today spoke of her pain and grief and how she will never forgive the man who left her childless. By the time Carolyn Iles was 22 she had experienced most parents' worse nightmare
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Children have a ball at their Christmas party
GENEROUS Park South residents raised more than £1,000 to hold a party for 150 children. The event was organised by Florence Williams, who works at the Ring Coffee Bar in Cavendish Square. The cash was raised in the space of just a month, mainly with a
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Indecency is denied
A CHILD playing hide and seek was subjected to an indecent assault as her friends hid, a court heard. Swindon Crown Court was told Eurico Fernandes made an inappropriate comment to a 12-year-old girl before touching her improperly. It was claimed he then
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Our date with robbie
HAYLEY and Richard Bridger are dedicated Robbie Williams fans but never dreamed that they would get to meet the man himself. That changed when they won a once in a lifetime opportunity to spend the afternoon with the star at an exclusive book-signing
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Husband is cleared of handling stolen cash
THE HUSBAND of the woman who admitted stealing almost £2m from Dunbar Bank has walked free from court after being acquitted of handling her ill-gotten gains. A jury at Swindon Crown Court took less than four hours to find Paul Rowlands not guilty of three
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Simon reels in a record-breaker
Angler Simon Knowles secured the catch of his life when he landed a mammoth pike at Peatmore recently. The giant fish weighed in at 16lbs 8oz, and is believed by many to be the biggest pike caught in the popular stretch of water. A delighted Knowles,
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Hear ye! Boots wins award
WOOTTON Bassett Town Crier and Sword Bearer Fred 'Boots' Deacon has been honoured with a Civic Award. The 69-year-old was one of four people recognised during a ceremony at the Town Council ceremony at the Memorial Hall. Joe Gamble, John Knott and Vic
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Cemetery rules may be enforced
GRIEVING families are tonight expected to be told to stop placing trinkets, toys and even artificial flowers on graves at a Swindon cemetery. Councillors are likely to argue in favour of keeping the current regulations at Whitworth Road Cemetery, which
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The little princess
ONE of Swindon's young panto stars will feature on national television next year when she plays the young Princess Margaret in a film about the Queen Mother. Nine-year-old Jenna Malloy has done TV work before and performed several times at the Wyvern
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Council cuts may shut children's university
AN education scheme that has helped nearly 6,000 Swindon children since it started three years ago, is facing the prospect of closure due to council cuts. The Children's University is one of a host of community projects facing the axe as the Borough Council
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Runaway trio of hijackers is jailed
THUGS who brought terror to the South of England and Wales with a spree of professional ram-raids and hijackings and were later sprung in a courtroom gun attack, are back behind bars. One of the hijackings happened in Wootton Bassett, when a van driver
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Town skipper Reeves Evans is simply the best
ALAN REEVES has hailed Roy Evans as the best manager he has ever worked for and is desperate for him to stay at the County Ground. The club captain admits to being in the dark over the director of football's future but he believes Swindon Town will be
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The Wait Goes On
ROY EVANS is still tussling with the toughest decision of his life as fans wait to hear if the director of football will stay at the County Ground. He was expected to lead training this morning but no 'showdown' talks were planned with the Town board.
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Entente cordiale
WHEN viewed against the countless benefits our inclusion into the common market has brought us, the rage being shown by Mr Blunkett at having had his stowaway fines on drivers and truck seizures outlawed by the courts seems churlish in the extreme. We
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How the wheels fell off leftie bandwagon
IT WAS interesting to read your report that 100 people met in Upper Minety to debate a proposed change of use of a pub to a home. It put into perspective the 50 from the whole of Swindon who attended a well publicised meeting to stop the war in Afghanistan
