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Duke: 'I Won't Hide'
DAVID DUKE has vowed that the County Ground boo-boys will not send him running for cover. The Scotsman has been subjected to abuse from a section of the crowd in the last two home matches, shamefully so in the eyes of his manager and many supporters.
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Spooky drive in proves to be a Shining success
Ref. 73186-104Hundreds of cars packed into the central runway intersection at Wroughton Airfield on Halloween night to enjoy a screening of Stanley Kubrick's horror classic The Shining and made Wiltshire's first Thunder Road Drive-in Movie a huge success
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Town tametitle rivals
Faringdon Town returned to Division 1 action with an emphatic 5-1 win over title rivals Lambourn Sports. Frustrated Lambourn had a player dismissed in each half, as they succumbed to Town's 'hit on the break' strategy. After Mike Kelly had made two fine
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Young stars shine
NEARLY 50 boys and girls took part in a four-day FA Coca Cola Soccer Stars football development programme at Wootton Bassett, under the town's Community Soccer director Chris Kirkland. The venue was St Bart's School, with the course being held on the
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Vandals smash memorial bench
Ref. 73188-78 Les Hudgell uses a chair after vandals demolished a bench put up in memory of David BristowVANDALS have smashed up a memorial bench in Stratton. The bench was placed on Beech-croft Road in memory of local musician David Bristow, who died
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School dinners are bad for you
NUTRITION campaigners have slammed Government ministers for failing to protect children from unhealthy school dinners. The Soil Association has carried out a survey of five typical school meals and has found that they contain high amounts of saturated
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Police commend poster campaign
POLICE have hailed the Advertiser Halloween poster campaign a huge success. In recent years up to 400 calls - relating to egg and flour throwing have been received from concerned residents who had been tricked during Halloween pranks. But this year police
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So what took you so long?
Ref. 73185-100ARMED police took 15 hours to act on a tip-off from a resident who spotted a gunman. A neighbour raised the alarm shortly after midnight on Sunday after spotting a group of men with what appeared to be a handgun. But an armed response unit
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'Please don't rape me... I'm only 10'
A TEENAGER pleaded with an attacker not to rape her because she was only 10 years-old, to try and stop him, a court heard. But the man put his hand over her mouth to stop her screams and started to strangle her, it is alleged. He also banged her head
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Watchman score lifts Under 11s
CHIPPENHAM Under 11s emerged with a win and a defeat from their trip to Dursley. The squad of 16 were beaten 12-0 in their opening match, but hit back to win the second as Matt Watchman crossed for the only try and Luke Gorman converted. The under nines
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Tyres deflate sorry leaders
DORSET & Wilts Division 1 North leaders Corsham lost their 100 per cent record to neighbours Cooper-Avon Tyres in Saturday's hard-fought derby at Lacock Road. The Melksham visitors went behind early on but showed great character to hit back and inflict
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Devizes left to rue their luck
Salisbury claimed a flatteringly comfortable 36-12 victory over an unlucky Devizes Under 15s in their Wiltshire Cup clash. The 24-point winning margin didn't do justice to Devizes' contribution in a genuinely close contest. Salibsury were two tries up
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Oaks chop down unbeaten Bassett
Missing a handful of key players, Wootton Bassett Colts' unbeaten start to the season came to an end with a three-try 25-10 home defeat by Oakmedians. The vistors, unlike Bassett, looked composed throughout and snapped up points each time a chance presented
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Fairford put an end to unbeaten run
Half-Term limited the North Wilts & District Youth & Minors League to just a number of matches, mainly in the older age groups. The action still managed to throw up a real surprise in the Under 17 Division where previously unbeaten Liden Community
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Wroughton get back on track with a6-2 victory
Wroughton under 14s got back to winning ways with a convincing 6-2 victory against Tetbury. James Crockett scored a first half hat-trick, and other goals from Matt Lyons and an own goal meant it was 5-1 at half-time. A first goal for the club from Callum
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Spitfires sunk
Swindon Spitfires' under 14s suffered their second defeat of the season at the hands of Keynsham Town, but the final 5-1 scoreline failed to do the Swindon side justice. The first half was even, with Lauren Wakeling scoring for Spitfires to make the half-time
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Moon glow!
Moonrakers went back to the top of Division One as they overcame Wroughton WMC 3-0 with goals from Dave Toomey, Paul Ritchie and Karl Spencer. Elsewhere Greyhound, 1-0 down to Carriers Arms, hit back with a Stuart Hodson penalty, Andy Minturn, Justin
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Super sub Webb!
Potterne FC continue to set the early pace in Division Two of the Auto Business Solutions Ltd, Chippenham & District Sunday League but they were pushed all the way in their latest clash with Parsons Nose. Melksham side Nose threw away a 3-1 half-time
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Forces make own decisions over action plans
A spokeswoman for the Association of Chief Police Officers said that each force decides on its own plan of action. But she stressed that all forces adhere to the guidelines set out in The Manual of Guidance on Police Use of Firearms. The manual states
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Sparks will fly
SWINDON Lions Club is holding its annual fireworks show on Saturday, November 6 at the Marlborough Road Polo Ground. Advance tickets are £3.50 for adults and £1.50 for children and OAPs and are available from branches of the Nationwide building society
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Debate on the future
A meeting of the Parks and East Walcot Neighbourhood Regeneration Company is taking place on Thursday. The group aims to breath new life into the Parks and East Walcot area using Government cash. The meeting is at St Andrews Church Hall in Raleigh Avenue
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Barbury ramble
HIKERS can look forward to spectacular views of the countryside with a walk around Barbury Castle this month. The Barbury Castle Round walk is organised by Swindon Council's ranger service and will take place on Sunday, November 7 from 1pm to 4pm.
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Trees are for life
THE Great Western Community Forest wants farmers and landowners to plant more woodland on their property. The field team is able to offer free advice on applying for the woodland grant scheme. For more information email Patrick Norris at pnorris@swindon.gov.uk
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Man arrested after burglary
A BRISTOL man has been arrested on suspicion of burglary from the former St Ivel site in Wootton Bassett. The 38-year-old man from the Bedminster area was yesterday evening in custody at Westlea police station awaiting interview. A police spokesman said
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Talented chef scoops bronze
A TALENTED chef from Aldbourne has scooped a bronze medal in a top culinary competition. Aptly-named James Baker, 18 cooked his way to medal success in the Compass Group Junior Chef of the Year 2004 contest.
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Meat is stolen
A MAN made off with a basket full of meat from Budgen's store in Wootton Bassett. Insp Mark Levitt, of Wootton Bassett police, said: "He jumped into a Ford Escort parked outside and sped off towards the High Street. "We know there were a number of people
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Diwali danger
WILTSHIRE Fire Brigade is urging Hindu, Sikh and Jain families to take particular care when celebrating Diwali this on November 12. Nationally, at least one person dies each year in a house fire caused by a candle at Diwali. The fire brigade is asking
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Threat to post offices future
Half of all high street post offices throughout the country could be closed or sold off under plans being considered by the Royal Mail. As many as 270 stores nationwide could be shut down or offered to local consortiums as part of reforms which are being
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Danger for drivers after the big match
RETURNING home from the big match on Saturdays could be dangerous to motorists' health especially if their team has lost. More car users are killed or seriously injured in the three hours between 5pm and 8pm on Saturdays than in the same time period on
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Hop on new Popin buses
Ref. 73187-11WAITING in the cold and wet for a bus should be a thing of the past, following the launch of higher frequency services in Swindon. Bus operator, Stagecoach has begun its new popin services on route numbers 6, 7 and 8 in a bid a to get people
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Ghosts will walk again
TALES of Wiltshire's scary ghouls and ghosts will be the subject of a talk at the University of Bath in Swindon this week. In a lecture called Wiltshire's Haunted Landscapes, Katy Jordan looks at folk customs, legends and ghostly tales associated with
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Candidate calls for MPs to get average worker's wage
SWINDON'S MPs should only be paid the average wage of workers in their constituency, according to one election candidate. That could mean slashing their salaries by more than half and leaving about £30,000 to spend in the community each year instead.
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Blitz on dodgers of fines launched
A BLITZ on fine dodgers has been launched by courts in Swindon. The government-backed drive codenamed Operation Payback 2 aims to collect hundreds of thousands of pounds in cash penalties which have not been paid by various offenders from all courts.
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Your school could win sport prizes in Brunel contest
THERE are only three days left for Swindon schools to finish top of the prize-winning league in a competition run by a shopping centre. For every £1 customers spend at The Brunel shopping centre they receive one point which can be put towards the tally
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MPs worth it
The European Parliament spends £100m just to move between the two different parliament buildings, Brussels and Strasbourg. There is also a third building in Luxembourg which houses the parliament library and admin. The books are lent at an estimated £50,000
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Leave County Ground alone
SO now the County Ground is the wrong place for a football stadium, according to Coun M Childs (EA Oct 26). Well, I've got news for Coun Childs, it's been a football ground for the past 100 years and on a site for sporting use only. Also it was there
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Our beauty spots have been taken
I WAS very pleased to read the Walcot councillor's remarks as regards the football ground. Yes, it should have been relocated to Shaw, but we all know the council threw up their hands in surrender to the pro-forest brigade. People in the centre of town
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Away day blues end Wiltshire's Liberty hopes
WILTSHIRE fell at the first hurdle in their bid for glory in the inter-county championship. They were narrowly beaten 115-109 by Warwickshire in the opening round of the Liberty Trophy. Wiltshire took the honours at North Wilts (Chippenham) winning on
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Business cream enter the awards
TIME is ticking away to get entry forms into the biggest award ceremony in Wiltshire's business calendar. The awards night to be held at the De Vere Hotel at Shaw Ridge on February 25 next year has become known as one of the glitziest in the calendar,
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Land Rover Discovery event
Customers are being invited to visit Ottons Land Rover in Salisbury, from November 1-4, to be among the first to see the award-winning All New Land Rover Discovery 3. Ottons Land Rover is confident that the vehicle is going to be incredibly popular, particularly
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Degas painting inspires pupils
Ref. 73198-30 Maya Moni and Jamie Bryon, of Covingham Park Infants School with part of the collage pupils have made from recycled materials based on Degas' (INSET) painting Beach SceneCHILDREN from a Swindon school may see their artwork hung in the National
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Spooky drive in proves to be a Shining success
Ref. 73186-104Hundreds of cars packed into the central runway intersection at Wroughton Airfield on Halloween night to enjoy a screening of Stanley Kubrick's horror classic The Shining and made Wiltshire's first Thunder Road Drive-in Movie a huge success
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Couple want £600,000 for a better haven
ANIMAL rescuers want sponsorship to ensure their £600,000 dream to build a modern care home becomes a reality. John and Deana War-wick, who run Swindon and District Animal Haven, say they want to build a care home to meet the demand for their service.
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Town under 14 sharpshooters on target with 16
SWINDON Town Ladies under 14 A team kept up their unbeaten run in the Wilts seven-a-side league with a 16-1 success at Derry Hill. It was another great team performance from Swindon, with the whole team working hard and playing controlled football. Derry
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Town Ladies ease into second round
SWINDON Town Ladies progressed through to the second round of the Women's FA Cup when they faced Bath City at Saltford and won 4-0. The Town kicked off and quickly got into their stride, and Catherine Reid soon had the City keeper Gemma Picton in action
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Open and shut case of theft
THIEVES have made off with two large black front garden gates from a pensioner's home in Park North. The occupant of the property in Welcome Avenue did not wish to be identified, but she said: "I feel like a part of me is gone. I went to bed and when
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Branch meeting
THE Swindon branch of the TUC is holding an open meeting tomorrow at 7.30pm inthe Broadgreen Centre in Salisbury Street off Manchester Road. Jaginder Bassi, pictured, from Swindon Racial Equality Council will be speaking on the theme of migrant workers
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Residents views are sought on pathway
A FORMER Purton resident is urging people to help restore a public track to its original historic width. Rachel Saunders wants people to write to Wiltshire County Council about land where Hoggs Lane and Witts Lane meet on The Common. The land was narrowed
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Santa Claus to visit Lawn grotto
YOUNGSTERS can visit Father Christmas in his grotto at a special bazaar and raffle in Lawn next week. The event takes place at the Lawn Community Centre in Guildford Avenue on Saturday, November 13 from 2pm to 4pm.
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Honour for troops
Troops based in Wiltshire have been given the honour of representing the Royal Logistics Corps on Remembrance Day. Personnel from 9th Regiment, the Royal Logistics Corps based at Buckley Barracks in Hullavington, will be taking part in the ceremonies
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Landlord slams car vandalism
Mark Ingle, 40, right, the proprietor of the Vale Hotel and restaurant in Cricklade High Street has hit out at the actions of a person who threw a paving slab through his car window. He said that in the early hours of Sunday the slab was thrown at his
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Plea for books
STARBUCKS will be collecting books for local children in the run-up to Christmas. Book bins will be placed in the Starbucks stores in the Brunel Centre and the Great Western Designer Outlet Village tomorrow as part of the National Literacy Trust and Starbucks
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Club's floodlight plea
The owners of Highworth Junior Football Club have applied to Highworth Town Council to move its floodlight pylons. At a meeting this evening the club will apply to move the lights from the north side of the football club field to its new pavilion.The
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Stables to fly out
STABLES used by US troops as they prepared for the D-Day landings could be shipped across the Atlantic next month. The 80-year-old steel structures once home of the famous Easy Company have been in storage at RAF Brize Norton since they were dismantled
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Schools make new plans
Kingsdown School wants to build a new two-storey building on its site in Hyde Road. It has applied for planning permission to build the teaching block and create extra parking. Headlands School, in Cricklade Road, is seeking permission for a temporary
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Women take on DIY in the home
Forget "Handy Andy" the new generation of DIY-ers is dominated by "Handy Mandies" as women increasingly take on the traditional male household jobs. Six out of ten young British women have so little confidence in their partner's DIY skills that they have
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Talking robot aims to be real lifesaver for GWH
Ref. 73144-22A TALKING robot worth £22,500 is proving to be a real lifesaver for staff at Great Western Hospital. Following a successful loan spell in June 2003, Sim Man a state-of-the-art training dummy has quickly established itself as a valued member
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It's snow joke Christmas is coming
Ref. 73199-32FROSTY the Snowman drifted into Swindon to deliver Royal Mail's new Christmas stamps. The seasonal stamps were created by Raymond Briggs, who wrote and drew the popular children's books and short films The Snowman and Father Christmas. They
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Funds for gun ban campaign
SWINDON MP Julia Drown is stepping up her campaign to get ball-bearing guns and other fire-arms banned. Thrill seekers who blasted a car dealership with BB guns came under fire from community leaders who are calling for the toy weapons to be outlawed.
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Picture is a winner
ARKELL'S Brewery has snapped up a national photographic prize in a competition for brewers to picture their local mayors enjoying a pint. The Swindon brewery came first out of 20 entries when it submitted a photograph, taken by the brewery's public relations
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Will laws curb the fireworks?
NECESSARY new firework laws have just been introduced. The extensive use of louder and louder bangers was disturbing the peace in a big way. There were numerous campaigns across the country with millions of people signing petitions for common sense restrictions
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Will Iraq debacle lead to nuclear war?
WE are all aware of the facts leading up to the invasion of Iraq. We have now lost 68 of our finest sons. It is quite clear from opinion polls the public believe that someone, somewhere as the politicians say was economical with the truth. I personally
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Council must fight for Coate
I AM appalled by the lack of leadership from the Conservative and Labour councillors on the development at Coate. With building going on all around us, places like Coate are priceless. People need opportunities for recreation in the countryside and the
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Bath deny any 'racist abuse' of Collymore
Bath have described allegations that South African centre Robbie Fleck racially abused Stan Collymore as "completely unfounded". The former England striker claimed Fleck had called him a "kaffir", a derogatory term used in South Africa towards black people
