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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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Jet to let investors
A growing number of young people are planning to buy properties abroad because of rocketing house prices in this country. A survey of 1,000 people aged between 18 and 29 found that half were turning to a foreign country to get their feet on the property
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Tapping into the Olympic dream
BUSINESSES have been invited to learn how they can share in the Olympic dream. Englishman Mick Aitken helped lay the foundations for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Back in 1985 he was heavily involved in establishing Events Corp in Australia the first of Australia's
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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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Icy M4 causes seven smashes
It was a weekend of chaos for motorists on the M4 with seven separate smashes, one of which left a man in a life-threatening condition. Icy conditions led to four crashes in the space of two hours along a two kilometre stretch of the motorway. And following
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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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Father and son are set to rebuild history
A FATHER and son from Aldbourne are waiting to see if their skills are needed to re-erect pieces of wartime history in America. Last summer, Stephen and Keith Sowerby, dismantled six stables that were home to troops of the famous Easy Company as they
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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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How many people from the council does it take to change a tap?
Children Amy Wakeman, five, Jordan Wolf, five and Abbie Wolf, three, have been left with no cold water since January 14 Ref:75725-29A FAMILY of eight have been without cold running water for more than a week because of a council blunder. Beckie, 29, and
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Local news on web
A NEW website for residents in Swindon's central ward has been launched. Coun Michael Dickinson, Conservative councillor for central ward, has set up the website, which can be found at www.centralintouch.com. Coun Dickinson said: "I am glad that I am
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We'll binge if we want to
Paul Morrison with his sister Kirsty Ref. 75743-116With fears being raised over the introduction of 24-hour drinking, ISABEL FIELD went out in Swindon to see what our drinking culture is really like THE snow does not seem to have put the revellers off
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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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We voted for you. Now vote for us, say LibDems
SWINDON Liberal Democrats have written to voluntary groups about plans to cut their funding. The Lib Dems are opposing council plans to cut £252,000 from voluntary sector grants and are now asking for help from the groups themselves. Coun Chris Shepherd
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Donate presents
There is still time to donate your unwanted Christmas presents to the Prospect Hospice. Good quality items of clothing and bric-a-brac, but no furniture or electrical goods, are being collected at Lok 'n' Store in Rushey Platt Industrial Estate and Elgin
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Brothers told they can't stay
TWO brothers who arrived in Swindon after fleeing the Taleban in Afghanistan have been told they cannot stay in Britain. Azim, 18, and Wali Ansari, 25, travelled to Swindon in the back of a lorry in 2001 with nothing more than the clothes they were wearing
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Street drinkers to be targeted
FIRST it was beggars, now the police are targeting town-centre drunks. Officers are preparing to use tough new measures to keep Swindon's shopping core free of street-drinkers. They want to take out Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) against troublesome
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I can never forgive him
THE mother of a teenager killed in a horrific road accident says she can never forgive the driver. Gary Huckin was jailed for five years after he pleaded guilty to causing the death of Matthew Styles, 19, by dangerous driving. The 36-year-old showed no
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Don't panic
DIRECTOR Bob Holt insists there is no cause for panic after Swindon Town was hit by a winding up petition from HM Customs and Excise. An overdue VAT payment has triggered court action and Town have until February 2 to pay up or face the consequences.
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Fraser finds himself on the spot
TSUNAMI APPEAL: SWINDON Town's Fraser Digby is in for a busy afternoon on Saturday. The former first team goalkeeper will be back between the sticks not for the game against Stockport but for a charity penalty shoot-out. And taking the penalties in the
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Touching words
Ref. 75657-14TSUNAMI APPEAL: SCHOOLCHILDREN have been putting pen to paper, and writing about their feelings on the Asian tsunami disaster. More than 20 Year 5 children at Chiseldon Primary School wrote ballads on their own thoughts and feelings about
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What a great feat
Ref. 75650-122TRAIN driver Martin Davis is aiming to run three marathons in 14 days to raise money for charity. The 30-year-old, of Kingshill, Swindon, will travel to Lisbon, Paris and London in a bid to raise funds for Cancer Research and Asthma UK and
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Town centre scheme under threat
TORY plans to cut public spending would wreck regeneration projects in Swindon, according to the South West TUC. The Conservatives announced last week that if elected they would reduce taxes by cutting bureaucracy. But the South West TUC has hit back
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Organiser hits out at apathy over bulb planting
Junior Street Wardens and organisers who planted bulbs as part of the Buckhurst Field Project Ref. 75733-08THE vice-chairman of a community project in Swindon is furious with what he claims is apathy amongst people in the town. John Brownlee, 62, from
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Burglar went on the run from jail
HOUSE burglar Kevin Dunn walked out of an open prison five hours after he was transferred to the jail. And the 28-year-old from Swindon spent eight days on the run before he was arrested by police who found him hiding at a house in Liden. Dunn was jailed
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Warning over bogus callers
RESIDENTS are being warned to be on their guard against bogus callers. The warning comes after reports of callers in the Liden and Park South areas of Swindon pretending to be working for a gas company. A spokesperson for Swindon Police said: "Residents
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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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DEBT RELIEF!
VICTORY at Southend United tomorrow night would help bring the club a step closer to a badly-needed pay day. With Town now facing a winding up petition from HM Customs and Excise, some extra cash in the coffers would be more than a little useful. An LDV
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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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A step up for Tina
TINA McGrath has been appointed operations manager for Imagine Co-operative Childcare, which is owned by the Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-op. Imagine runs five nurseries including one in Walcot. Tina joined Imagine in February last year as nursery
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Multimedia firm to create 60 jobs
THAMESDOWN Software Fulfilment, a multimedia duplication and replication company working in CD, CD-ROM, DVD, video and MC formats, has announced the acquisition of the business of CD/DVD manufacturer SDC GB a move that will create 60 new jobs in Swindon
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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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Children asked to design sustainable garden
A GROUP of Swindon schoolchildren have been asked to design a garden for a Creative Planet Centre. The year eight and nine children from Ridgeway School have been taking part in a series of workshops aimed at helping them with their designs and run by
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Teenagers robbed by group of five youths
A group of teenagers was forced to hand over their cash and mobile phones by another group in Swindon town centre. The teenagers were walking along Canal Walk at 11pm when a group of five others in their late teens approached them and demanded their money
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Newspaper seller is threatened by gang
Ref. 75731-09An Evening Advertiser newspaper seller has spoken of his fear after he was intimidated and threatened by a gang of youths. Ian Graham, 46, who runs a stall in the town centre, close to Debenhams, was working on Friday afternoon when three
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Icy M4 causes seven smashes
It was a weekend of chaos for motorists on the Swindon stretch of the M4 with seven separate smashes, one of which left a man in a life-threatening condition. Icy conditions led to four crashes in the space of two hours along a two kilometre stretch of
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Wedding washed away by waves
Ref. 755724-17A COUPLE who had their dream wedding in Sri Lanka washed away by the tsunami have decided they will go back and wed there at Christmas. Anna Green, 26, and her 32 year-old fianc, Simon Miles, had been planning to marry on the eastern coast
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Tory candidate says council faces crisis
HOPES that changes to licensing laws will create a continental caf society are wishful thinking, according to a Swindon Conservative. Robert Buckland, who will stand for the Tories in South Swindon at the next election, has concerns about the planned
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Books to your door
WEST SWINDON, Highworth and Liden libraries have spaces available for people to use their Home Library Service. The free service, available to people of all ages, is designed for those who have difficulty getting to a library and no one to go on their
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Mayor is a winner
THE Mayor of Swindon will be the toast of the town tonight. Coun Peter Stoddart will travel to London for a dinner after winning a competition run by the Beer Naturally Campaign. The national competition asked brewers to picture their local mayor enjoying
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GOLDEN YEARS
Check out the spring edition of our Golden Years supplement packed with hints, tips, features and advice for our older readers. The latest edition includes gardening features, healthy eating ideas, travel news and advice on keeping your skin looking healthy
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Blunder sends care details on girl to stranger
SWINDON social services is investigating how a report on a young girl taken into care was sent to the wrong address. The confidential document includes highly sensitive information about why the five-year-old was taken from her parents. In an embarrassing
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OAP home after cruise cancelled
A PENSIONER who was hoping for a dream cruise aboard the luxury liner Aurora said he was gutted that the voyage was abandoned. Colin Jones, 70, was one of 1,400 who filed out of the arrivals lounge at Southampton Docks after a battle to try and fix the
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This panto hides a secret. Oh yes it does!
Ref. 75746-104A UNIQUE version of Aladdin is being staged at the Gorse Hill Community Centre this week. Tiverton Players are putting on a performance of the popular pantomime from tomorrow until Saturday. The special version has unusual twist, which the
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Tories reject fat cat claim
SWINDON Council bosses have been labelled fat cats after announcing plans to appoint another senior councillor. The move will cost more than £5,000 a year and comes as the council prepares to make £10m of cuts. The appointment of a lead member for community
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Touching words
TSUNAMI APPEAL: SCHOOLCHILDREN have been putting pen to paper, and writing about their feelings on the Asian tsunami disaster. More than 20 Year 5 children at Chiseldon Primary School wrote ballads on their own thoughts and feelings about the dramatic
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What's a girl going to do?
Ref. 75747-128THE show must go on for a pantomime dame whose wigs, make-up and eyelashes have been stolen just days before he is due on stage. Stuart Dark, who is playing Widow Twanky in Wootton Bassett Light Operatic Society's production of Aladdin,
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Night of curry aids appeal
OWNERS of Indian restaurants in Swindon have joined forces to cook up an idea to raise funds for the tsunami disaster appeal. Seventeen curry houses from the Swindon area have decided to donate all their profits from tomorrow night to the British Red
