Wiltshire | Archive | 2000 | May
Swindon Friends of the Earth have called upon this Govern-ment to order the immediate destruction of the illegally planted genetically modified oil seed rape in the UK. more...
We agree with Lily Pratlet's letter to the Evening Advertiser. more...
Housing benefit is administered by local councils but financed from central government. more...
AS the debate regarding South Swindon MP Julia Drown rages on I believe the vital point is being missed. more...
PLANS are under way for the first Swindon City Festival. more...
CRICKLADE senior citizens who threatened to stage a sit-in over the temporary closure of their church hall day centre have been told they can continue to use the facility. more...
PEOPLE who missed out on a charity abseil in March will have a second opportunity to take the plunge next month. more...
A HAT-TRICK of successes is being claimed by the organisers of a farmers' market. more...
LESSONS at Bradon Forest are interesting and at times inspirational, according to a government inspection team. more...
RAIN and hail didn't stop 250 people taking part in the annual Chiseldon Fun Run. more...
A COURSE in a revolutionary drug-free treatment for asthma is being offered to people in Swindon. more...
Television and radio presenter Zoe Ball, whose grandparents live in Swindon, has announced she is expecting her first baby. more...
LOCAL branches of a supermarket chain have donated £500 to help victims of domestic violence and crime. more...
DRUMMER Barry Ganberg will be on the beat at this year's series of World Music summer concerts in Swindon. more...
SHOWMEN and women from all over the UK are getting ready to converge on Wiltshire for the Highworth Country Fair 2000. more...
THE finalists for this year's Young Cook of the Year competition, sponsored by communications company ntl, have been selected from the 25 original entries received from eight Swindon schools. more...
A BOOK called Wiltshire Time Capsule is being published to commemorate life in the county at the turn of the millennium. more...
PEOPLE in Wiltshire are being given the chance to shape the future of Swindon and the county's waste plan. more...
WAR veteran Kim Main has poured scorn on research that confirms multiple vaccinations given to soldiers in the 1991 conflict with Iraq may be linked to Gulf War syndrome. more...
WOMEN in Swindon are being invited to a film premiere at a local church. more...
A PACKED night club was targeted in a petrol bomb attack which could have put hundreds of lives in danger. more...
SWINDON Ocotal Link is bidding for £80,000 of lottery cash to fund educational materials for schools and an international website about the Nicaraguan town. more...
CHANNEL 4's Big Breakfast chose a Swindon cul-de-sac for a wacky poetry competition today. more...
CRICKLADE'S May Fair had a VIP in attendance for the first time ever. more...
GEORGE Martin showed his true British spirit when he braved the rain to watch an open-air jazz concert. more...
POLICE are hunting an attacker who fractured the jaw of a man outside Swindon's Brunel Rooms. more...
A SWINDON man died when his motorbike was in collision with a car. more...
A PAIR of teenage boys who held two ten-year-olds at knifepoint for their Pokemon cards pleaded guilty to robbery, when they appeared at Swin-don youth court. more...
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