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Our lovely little miss nosey
15791/3As the Gazette's Springboard Appeal received another big boost this week, winning support from staff at Woolworths in Chippenham, ZOE MILLS spoke to another family who have been helped by the pre-school DOLL'S clothes were all little Lucy Walker's
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Cameras to capture speeders
A BLITZ on speeding drivers is planned on the M4. The Wiltshire and Swindon Safety Camera Partnership plans to install several speed cameras. Full details will be released on Wednesday at an event attended by South Swindon MP Julia Drown and Wiltshire
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The shocking face of heroin abuse
POLICE are using shocking images of a heroin user to persuade people to grass up drug dealers in Swindon. The hard-hitting campaign, which graphically warns of the effects of drug abuse, will be launched on Monday. Posters are going up across town showing
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Nick's World Cup fate in the balance
WOOTTON Bassett rugby international Nick Warren's World Cup fate could be decided in the next eight days. Headlands School teacher Warren and his Malta teammates face tough appointments with Serbia & Montenegro at home today and Bulgaria away next
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Where's UKIP?
RECENTLY this page has featured letters about the Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and the Green parties. Nothing about the UK Independence Party. Yet, not so long ago there were many letters supporting (or otherwise) UKIP. I would hate to think
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Fair play for the English
IS this Celt-dominated Government subtly reducing the English to second class citizenship? For two years Scotland has had a more advanced technique for cervical smear testing, which only now is being introduced in England, and then only a pilot scheme
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Business park will not help us
THE headline in the Advertiser on April 1 about a business park which could create 1,500 new jobs is complete fantasy, as there are many empty offices and factories now and some have never been let. The answer is to turn these into low cost homes as there
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Drug addicts are criminals, not victims
Re: The letter about drug addicts by Andy Newman, EA, April 1. Was it an April Fool hoax? He cannot be serious. When most people are saying the law is too soft on criminals, Mr Newman wants them to be treated as victims. He also wants addicts to get drugs
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I Want No 2 Job!
ALAN REEVES is anxious to become Andy King's permanent number two and will use the remainder of the campaign to prove himself worthy of the role. Mick Harford's departure to Rotherham United has left the manager without an assistant and Town's longest
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All-out bid for honours
THE INDOOR season draws to a close next weekend with the staging of the men's National Indoor finals in Melton Mowbray. Westlecot will have representation in all four of the major national championships, singles, pairs, triples and fours, in Melton as
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Be an easy motorway driver say police
76874-14POLICE have denied there has been an increase in accidents on the M4 between junction 16 and 17 in recent weeks. In the past month, there have been 14 crashes on the stretch between the Chippenham and Swindon east exits. The latest happened yesterday
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Guys and dolls wanted
AUDITIONS for this year's Wyvern Theatre Summer Youth Project are on Sunday, May 15. Youngsters aged between nine and 19 are wanted for a production of Guys and Dolls. It is not just the budding actors who can be involved as the marketing and wardrobe
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No smoke pub getsa face-lift
A NON-smoking pub has set a date to open in Swindon following a £1.7m redevelopment project. Pub operator JD Wetherspoon is opening The Dockle Farmhouse, Lloyds No.1 Bar, in Bridge End Road, on Sunday, April 24. It will be the company's first non-smoking
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Give gift of life
On behalf on NHS UK Transplant, I'd like to say a huge thank you to all your readers who have pledged to help others to live after their death. Six months ago, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the NHS Organ Donor Register, we launched a nationwide
