Wiltshire | Archive | 2000 | June
By Craig Evry more...
BACK by public demand, from today for seven days, Russell Crowe stars in Gladiator (15), at the Westway Cinema, Frome. Also starring the late Oliver Reed in his last film role, it is showing daily at 8pm. more...
FRIDAY more...
By Michael Crutchley more...
By Joceline Bury more...
By Reg Burnard more...
BATH THEATRE ROYAL more...
The English Shakespeare Company visits the Merlin Theatre, Frome, at the beginning of next month with a production of Romeo and Juliet. The performance on July 1 is aimed at children aged seven to 12 but anyone interested in Shakespeare will be entertained and intrigued by the company's treatment of the Bard's most popular tragedy. The story of the `star-cross'd lovers' is retold using puppets, singing and circus skills, with the audience able to question the characters in an attempt to understand how love's young dream goes so horribly wrong. Romeo and Juliet is on stage at the Merlin for one performance at 11am, and tickets are £5. Box office (01373) 465949. more...
I WAS saddened to read of the diagnostic mistakes made at local hospitals. more...
A few weeks ago, the Mayor of Trowbridge was, in my opinion, unfairly attacked for the state of her front garden. more...
BUILDINGS of architectural and historical importance in west Wiltshire have been put on the English Heritage Buildings at Risk register in a bid to stop them decaying. more...
FRESH faces behind a bar are promising to listen to the needs and wishes of their regulars. more...
RISING star Ella Smith has been forced to choose between her love of singing and of acting after winning a place with two national youth organisations. more...
AN antiques shop has been short listed for a prestigious award. more...
I WOULD like to reply to Mr Brewer's letter in (Wiltshire Times, June 2). more...
Pigeons love Trowbridge, you know; more...
WE accept that approval has been given for a Stroke Unit at our hospital to cover patients suffering a stroke from West Wiltshire District Council. This recognised the excellent facilities that we have at Westbury. more...
I was sorry to see that the controversy that raged over the PM's speech at the WI conference last week overshadowed some very important issues. more...
WOULD you kindly allow me on behalf of the local White Horse Branch of Leukaemia Research Fund, to sincerely thank the shopping public of Melksham at Sainsbury's Supermarket on June 10 for their generosity. more...
AS a food technologist with over 20 years experience working in the dairy industry I would like to respond to your article covering the proposed new dairy for Westbury (Wiltshire Times, June 9). more...
THANK you for your coverage of the twinning ceremony between Westbury and Chateau du Loir. It's pleasing that you, at least, correctly named the French town; despite repeated information, the name still appears with an additional E. more...
MAY I, on behalf of the members of the Studley Green Day Care Centre, use the columns of your newspaper to thank all the organisations and individuals who helped to make the Club's Millennium trip to France last Friday such a resounding success. more...
FURTHER to your report and picture in last week's Wiltshire Times regarding out walk for the Macmillan Way Challenge Relay 2000, from Bradford on Avon to Buckland Dinham near Frome, I would like to take this opportunity to thank HJ Knee Ltd, Marcus Holbrow, my able walking assistants, Martin Chandler and Shirley Windle, the many businesses, work colleagues, neighbours and friends in Trowbridge and Frome that were most generous in helping us to achieve a very worthwhile total of £540 for the Bristol Macmillan Cancer Relief Appeal. more...
BOWLS more...
CYCLING more...
JUDO more...
HORSE RACING more...
ATHLETICS more...
Britain's youngest formula one driver, Jenson Button, could be spearheading the Williams challenge in this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix. more...
By Michael Crutchley more...
By Joceline Bury more...
By Reg Burnard more...
BATH THEATRE ROYAL more...
The English Shakespeare Company visits the Merlin Theatre, Frome, at the beginning of next month with a production of Romeo and Juliet. The performance on July 1 is aimed at children aged seven to 12 but anyone interested in Shakespeare will be entertained and intrigued by the company's treatment of the Bard's most popular tragedy. The story of the `star-cross'd lovers' is retold using puppets, singing and circus skills, with the audience able to question the characters in an attempt to understand how love's young dream goes so horribly wrong. Romeo and Juliet is on stage at the Merlin for one performance at 11am, and tickets are £5. Box office (01373) 465949. more...
By Craig Evry more...
BACK by public demand, from today for seven days, Russell Crowe stars in Gladiator (15), at the Westway Cinema, Frome. Also starring the late Oliver Reed in his last film role, it is showing daily at 8pm. more...
FRIDAY more...
I WAS saddened to read of the diagnostic mistakes made at local hospitals. more...
A few weeks ago, the Mayor of Trowbridge was, in my opinion, unfairly attacked for the state of her front garden. more...
By Joanne Kelly more...
DOZING JP Michael Pearce has stood down from the bench after a court case had to be abandoned when he fell asleep. more...
BUILDINGS of architectural and historical importance in west Wiltshire have been put on the English Heritage Buildings at Risk register in a bid to stop them decaying. more...
By Joanne Kelly more...
PUBLICANS are putting their rules in writing in a bid to stamp out drink-related trouble in Melksham. more...
LINKS between Melksham and its publicans are set to be strengthened. more...
I WOULD like to reply to Mr Brewer's letter in (Wiltshire Times, June 2). more...
Pigeons love Trowbridge, you know; more...
WE accept that approval has been given for a Stroke Unit at our hospital to cover patients suffering a stroke from West Wiltshire District Council. This recognised the excellent facilities that we have at Westbury. more...
I was sorry to see that the controversy that raged over the PM's speech at the WI conference last week overshadowed some very important issues. more...
WOULD you kindly allow me on behalf of the local White Horse Branch of Leukaemia Research Fund, to sincerely thank the shopping public of Melksham at Sainsbury's Supermarket on June 10 for their generosity. more...
AS a food technologist with over 20 years experience working in the dairy industry I would like to respond to your article covering the proposed new dairy for Westbury (Wiltshire Times, June 9). more...
THANK you for your coverage of the twinning ceremony between Westbury and Chateau du Loir. It's pleasing that you, at least, correctly named the French town; despite repeated information, the name still appears with an additional E. more...
MAY I, on behalf of the members of the Studley Green Day Care Centre, use the columns of your newspaper to thank all the organisations and individuals who helped to make the Club's Millennium trip to France last Friday such a resounding success. more...
FURTHER to your report and picture in last week's Wiltshire Times regarding out walk for the Macmillan Way Challenge Relay 2000, from Bradford on Avon to Buckland Dinham near Frome, I would like to take this opportunity to thank HJ Knee Ltd, Marcus Holbrow, my able walking assistants, Martin Chandler and Shirley Windle, the many businesses, work colleagues, neighbours and friends in Trowbridge and Frome that were most generous in helping us to achieve a very worthwhile total of £540 for the Bristol Macmillan Cancer Relief Appeal. more...
BOWLS more...
CYCLING more...
JUDO more...
HORSE RACING more...
ATHLETICS more...
Britain's youngest formula one driver, Jenson Button, could be spearheading the Williams challenge in this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix. more...
CINEMA more...
n Battlefield Earth (12) Science fiction adventure, with John Travolta. Cineworld more...
As you reported, the churches of Swindon were involved in a unique event last weekend. more...
THERE are times when I feel a need to speak up in support of people who are being treated unfairly. more...
DID you know that we, the taxpayers, are being charged £1 for a green refuse sack by the council? more...
HAVING read and re-read Coun Michael Dickinson's letter (Putting the pupil first, June 9) I remain uncertain as to his viewpoint. more...
FURTHER to your article inviting opinions on the re-opening of Wootton Bassett station, I can only wonder why somebody hasn't suggested it before. It is an ideal solution to the traffic congestion in that area. more...
European facts more...
MAY I draw the attention of older readers to an initiative from the DTi to try to reduce the number of serious, sometimes fatal, accidents occurring on people's own stairs. more...
THE saga of mismanagement in parts of the local National Health Service continues. more...
WITH reference to the recent pathology errors at PMH and elsewhere. more...
There were hopes to expand this year's Victorian Festival in Old Town to a nine-day extravaganza this summer. But now, thanks to the apathy of Swindon people, it has become a token afternoon pub event. KELLY STRANGE charts its demise. more...
A thousand Swindon children are being led into smoke-filled rooms and beckoned into vehicles with strangers by police officers. more...
CLUBBER Vincent Burdett was fined £150 after a court heard how he was caught in a drugs clampdown at Swindon's Brunel Rooms. more...
ROCK stars of the future are to be schooled in Swindon. more...
THE Ministry of Defence has been accused of `riding roughshod' over private property rights when it agreed to a multi-million-pound sale of a historic World War II airbase to developers. more...
EVENING Advertiser chief photographer Dave Evans has no excuse for getting lost in Swindon. more...
THE organisers behind Swindon's new multi-million pound railway heritage museum are celebrating big visitor numbers to the town's newest attraction. more...
Free rides for children will bring back memories of a bygone era. more...
A VERDICT of accidental death has been recorded after a Brinkworth man died in a mountain fall. more...
A lively lamb joined Swindon pupils this week in a bid to teach them the importance of food safety. more...
SWINDON'S largest street festival has been scrapped because of a lack of public support. more...
A WOMAN was released on bail last night after being questioned by Swindon police over the disappearance of at least £1.75 million from the bank where she works as a manager. more...
TAXI driver Paul MaGuire has spoken of his cancer misdiagnosis scare at Princess Margaret Hospital five years before Dr James Elwood worked there. more...
STAFF at Swindon's C&A store are among the victims of the company's decision to shut up shop in the UK. more...
SEVEN people have been charged by police in Swindon as a result of a county-wide anti-heroin operation. more...
FOUR Swindon schools are seeing their millennium tapestry dreams unravel in tatters today. more...
CONTRACTORS cut through a Swindon water main, causing roads in Kingshill to flood. more...
SWINDON: Swindon-born author, zoologist and broadcaster Desmond Morris has sold a painting he bought for a few shillings for more than £100,000. Mr Morris, 72, was a struggling artist living in the town when he snapped up a job lot of eight canvases for 8s (40p) at an auction in Marlborough in 1947. It was more than 25 years later that he discovered a work he had removed from one frame was a sketch by Thomas Gainsborough dating back to 1759. Mr Morris, who now lives in Oxfordshire, sold the painting yesterday to an unnamed UK bidder for £102,500. more...
THE misery and fear caused by Dr James Elwood's blunders has been described to the Evening Advertiser by some of his patients. more...
AS a former regular at the County Ground I am writing with regards to the current debate on the building of a new stadium and the situation at Swindon Town Football Club. more...
TO my mind there can only be two options for the new site the Front Garden or the Blunsdon Abbey Stadium. more...
FEW would deny that Old Town's Victorian festival has been been for several years one of Swindon's best events. more...
THE decision not to display at the Dome a tapestry which thousands of young children have worked on is mean-minded, as well as commercially stupid. more...
ROARING Robins produced a fine all-round team performance to inflict a first league defeat on Premier leaders Hull Vikings. more...
TOWN have been forced to find another kit supplier because of their relegation last season. more...
THE rugby season appears never-ending and long may it continue. more...
Triple jumper Kathe-rine Silto set a new county record at the Wiltshire Schools' Track and Field Championships in Salisbury. more...
Host riders acquitted themselves well but were unable to take any of the higher placings when Swindon Road Club promoted the British Cycling Federation Western Division Road Race Championship. more...
Swindon cycle speedway stars Paul White and Steve Harris will be in opposition in the home nations championships in Stoke on Sunday. more...
If Beat All, Blueprint and Kalanisi do not win at Royal Ascot next week it won't be due to lack of assistance from the saddle. more...
Early starts are the order of the day as Swindon aim to make sure they get back to the County Ground pavilion in time to watch England's crunch clash with Germany. more...
Swindon GWR host Rover Cowley at their Shrivenham Road ground and will again be confident of claiming victory on Saturday. more...
Struggling Wootton Bassett CC, still without a win this year, entertain Gloucester hoping for a repeat of last year's home and away success. more...
Wiltshire take on Devon in the 38 County Cup at Corsham on Sunday in a clash between two sides that are unbeaten in the competition. more...
The Morse Shield competition, hosted by Swindon Cricket Club and sponsored by Arkell's, is due to commence next week. more...
Division One: Swindon Nalgo v Lechlade; Calne v Marlborough; Box v Westinghouse; Minety v Potterne; Hinton Charterhouse v Buscot Park. more...
Newly formed football team Eastville Boys FC enjoyed a magnificent debut season, capturing the Swindon & District Under-13 Sunday League championship and reaching the Wiltshire Cup final. more...
Germany have made four changes to their line-up after coach Erich Ribbeck took the surprising step of naming his team to face England 24 hours early. more...
England captain Alan Shearer has urged Michael Owen to use his wounded pride at being substituted against Portugal as the inspiration for making his mark against Germany tomorrow night. more...
The coaches of both Sweden and Turkey refused to give up hope of qualifying for the quarter-finals of Euro 2000 despite playing out a goalless draw in their Group B encounter in Eindhoven. more...
By Sara Oliver more...
By Sara Oliver more...
By Keri Eldridge more...
DOZING JP Michael Pearce has stood down from the bench after a court case had to be abandoned when he fell asleep. more...
By Sara Oliver and Joanne Kelly more...
A SINGLE mother of three was ordered to do 120 hours community service for claiming benefits while she worked. more...
BUILDINGS of architectural and historical importance in west Wiltshire have been put on the English Heritage Buildings at Risk register in a bid to stop them decaying. more...
DRUG DEALER Richard Shanley was sentenced to four years in prison, after pleading guilty to a string of offences at Bristol Crown Court on Wednesday. more...
By Keri Eldridge more...
BOWLS more...
CYCLING more...
JUDO more...
HORSE RACING more...
ATHLETICS more...
Britain's youngest formula one driver, Jenson Button, could be spearheading the Williams challenge in this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix. more...
By Michael Crutchley more...
By Joceline Bury more...
By Reg Burnard more...
BATH THEATRE ROYAL more...
The English Shakespeare Company visits the Merlin Theatre, Frome, at the beginning of next month with a production of Romeo and Juliet. The performance on July 1 is aimed at children aged seven to 12 but anyone interested in Shakespeare will be entertained and intrigued by the company's treatment of the Bard's most popular tragedy. The story of the `star-cross'd lovers' is retold using puppets, singing and circus skills, with the audience able to question the characters in an attempt to understand how love's young dream goes so horribly wrong. Romeo and Juliet is on stage at the Merlin for one performance at 11am, and tickets are £5. Box office (01373) 465949. more...
By Craig Evry more...
BACK by public demand, from today for seven days, Russell Crowe stars in Gladiator (15), at the Westway Cinema, Frome. Also starring the late Oliver Reed in his last film role, it is showing daily at 8pm. more...
FRIDAY more...
I WOULD like to reply to Mr Brewer's letter in (Wiltshire Times, June 2). more...
Pigeons love Trowbridge, you know; more...
WE accept that approval has been given for a Stroke Unit at our hospital to cover patients suffering a stroke from West Wiltshire District Council. This recognised the excellent facilities that we have at Westbury. more...
I was sorry to see that the controversy that raged over the PM's speech at the WI conference last week overshadowed some very important issues. more...
WOULD you kindly allow me on behalf of the local White Horse Branch of Leukaemia Research Fund, to sincerely thank the shopping public of Melksham at Sainsbury's Supermarket on June 10 for their generosity. more...
AS a food technologist with over 20 years experience working in the dairy industry I would like to respond to your article covering the proposed new dairy for Westbury (Wiltshire Times, June 9). more...
THANK you for your coverage of the twinning ceremony between Westbury and Chateau du Loir. It's pleasing that you, at least, correctly named the French town; despite repeated information, the name still appears with an additional E. more...
MAY I, on behalf of the members of the Studley Green Day Care Centre, use the columns of your newspaper to thank all the organisations and individuals who helped to make the Club's Millennium trip to France last Friday such a resounding success. more...
FURTHER to your report and picture in last week's Wiltshire Times regarding out walk for the Macmillan Way Challenge Relay 2000, from Bradford on Avon to Buckland Dinham near Frome, I would like to take this opportunity to thank HJ Knee Ltd, Marcus Holbrow, my able walking assistants, Martin Chandler and Shirley Windle, the many businesses, work colleagues, neighbours and friends in Trowbridge and Frome that were most generous in helping us to achieve a very worthwhile total of £540 for the Bristol Macmillan Cancer Relief Appeal. more...
I WAS saddened to read of the diagnostic mistakes made at local hospitals. more...
A few weeks ago, the Mayor of Trowbridge was, in my opinion, unfairly attacked for the state of her front garden. more...
By Michael Crutchley more...
By Joceline Bury more...
By Reg Burnard more...
BATH THEATRE ROYAL more...
The English Shakespeare Company visits the Merlin Theatre, Frome, at the beginning of next month with a production of Romeo and Juliet. The performance on July 1 is aimed at children aged seven to 12 but anyone interested in Shakespeare will be entertained and intrigued by the company's treatment of the Bard's most popular tragedy. The story of the `star-cross'd lovers' is retold using puppets, singing and circus skills, with the audience able to question the characters in an attempt to understand how love's young dream goes so horribly wrong. Romeo and Juliet is on stage at the Merlin for one performance at 11am, and tickets are £5. Box office (01373) 465949. more...
By Craig Evry more...
BACK by public demand, from today for seven days, Russell Crowe stars in Gladiator (15), at the Westway Cinema, Frome. Also starring the late Oliver Reed in his last film role, it is showing daily at 8pm. more...
FRIDAY more...
I WAS saddened to read of the diagnostic mistakes made at local hospitals. more...
A few weeks ago, the Mayor of Trowbridge was, in my opinion, unfairly attacked for the state of her front garden. more...
I WOULD like to reply to Mr Brewer's letter in (Wiltshire Times, June 2). more...
Pigeons love Trowbridge, you know; more...
WE accept that approval has been given for a Stroke Unit at our hospital to cover patients suffering a stroke from West Wiltshire District Council. This recognised the excellent facilities that we have at Westbury. more...
I was sorry to see that the controversy that raged over the PM's speech at the WI conference last week overshadowed some very important issues. more...
WOULD you kindly allow me on behalf of the local White Horse Branch of Leukaemia Research Fund, to sincerely thank the shopping public of Melksham at Sainsbury's Supermarket on June 10 for their generosity. more...
AS a food technologist with over 20 years experience working in the dairy industry I would like to respond to your article covering the proposed new dairy for Westbury (Wiltshire Times, June 9). more...
THANK you for your coverage of the twinning ceremony between Westbury and Chateau du Loir. It's pleasing that you, at least, correctly named the French town; despite repeated information, the name still appears with an additional E. more...
MAY I, on behalf of the members of the Studley Green Day Care Centre, use the columns of your newspaper to thank all the organisations and individuals who helped to make the Club's Millennium trip to France last Friday such a resounding success. more...
FURTHER to your report and picture in last week's Wiltshire Times regarding out walk for the Macmillan Way Challenge Relay 2000, from Bradford on Avon to Buckland Dinham near Frome, I would like to take this opportunity to thank HJ Knee Ltd, Marcus Holbrow, my able walking assistants, Martin Chandler and Shirley Windle, the many businesses, work colleagues, neighbours and friends in Trowbridge and Frome that were most generous in helping us to achieve a very worthwhile total of £540 for the Bristol Macmillan Cancer Relief Appeal. more...
BUILDINGS of architectural and historical importance in west Wiltshire have been put on the English Heritage Buildings at Risk register in a bid to stop them decaying. more...
PREPARATIONS for next week's summer solstice at Stonehenge are well under way, as English Heritage plans to open the world heritage site to the public on the longest day for the first time in 16 years. more...
A man who went on the rampage with an imitation gun walked free from court after a judge deferred sentence for six months. more...
CHANGES aimed at improving safety during Army battle training on Salisbury Plain were called for at an inquest on Tuesday, following the death of a tank commander during an exercise near Warminster. more...
A WARMINSTER man spat at and threatened a policeman's wife and children in their home after reacting to having his car immobilised. more...
By Craig Evry more...
BOWLS more...
CYCLING more...
JUDO more...
HORSE RACING more...
ATHLETICS more...
Britain's youngest formula one driver, Jenson Button, could be spearheading the Williams challenge in this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix. more...
By Joceline Bury more...
By Reg Burnard more...
BATH THEATRE ROYAL more...
The English Shakespeare Company visits the Merlin Theatre, Frome, at the beginning of next month with a production of Romeo and Juliet. The performance on July 1 is aimed at children aged seven to 12 but anyone interested in Shakespeare will be entertained and intrigued by the company's treatment of the Bard's most popular tragedy. The story of the `star-cross'd lovers' is retold using puppets, singing and circus skills, with the audience able to question the characters in an attempt to understand how love's young dream goes so horribly wrong. Romeo and Juliet is on stage at the Merlin for one performance at 11am, and tickets are £5. Box office (01373) 465949. more...
By Craig Evry more...
BACK by public demand, from today for seven days, Russell Crowe stars in Gladiator (15), at the Westway Cinema, Frome. Also starring the late Oliver Reed in his last film role, it is showing daily at 8pm. more...
By Michael Crutchley more...
FRIDAY more...
BUILDINGS of architectural and historical importance in west Wiltshire have been put on the English Heritage Buildings at Risk register in a bid to stop them decaying. more...
Paedophile Leslie Jones has been put on the sex offenders register after a court heard how he abused a young boy over a series of months. more...
A 27-YEAR-OLD Westbury man who snatched a woman's handbag outside the town's hospital has been jailed for two-and-a-half years. more...
ANGRY residents in Westbury Leigh are furious they cannot park outside their homes because Wiltshire County Council has put double yellow lines along the road. more...
A WESTBURY charity is facing a massive cash crisis and needs urgent help. more...
I WOULD like to reply to Mr Brewer's letter in (Wiltshire Times, June 2). more...
Pigeons love Trowbridge, you know; more...
WE accept that approval has been given for a Stroke Unit at our hospital to cover patients suffering a stroke from West Wiltshire District Council. This recognised the excellent facilities that we have at Westbury. more...
I was sorry to see that the controversy that raged over the PM's speech at the WI conference last week overshadowed some very important issues. more...
WOULD you kindly allow me on behalf of the local White Horse Branch of Leukaemia Research Fund, to sincerely thank the shopping public of Melksham at Sainsbury's Supermarket on June 10 for their generosity. more...
AS a food technologist with over 20 years experience working in the dairy industry I would like to respond to your article covering the proposed new dairy for Westbury (Wiltshire Times, June 9). more...
THANK you for your coverage of the twinning ceremony between Westbury and Chateau du Loir. It's pleasing that you, at least, correctly named the French town; despite repeated information, the name still appears with an additional E. more...
MAY I, on behalf of the members of the Studley Green Day Care Centre, use the columns of your newspaper to thank all the organisations and individuals who helped to make the Club's Millennium trip to France last Friday such a resounding success. more...
FURTHER to your report and picture in last week's Wiltshire Times regarding out walk for the Macmillan Way Challenge Relay 2000, from Bradford on Avon to Buckland Dinham near Frome, I would like to take this opportunity to thank HJ Knee Ltd, Marcus Holbrow, my able walking assistants, Martin Chandler and Shirley Windle, the many businesses, work colleagues, neighbours and friends in Trowbridge and Frome that were most generous in helping us to achieve a very worthwhile total of £540 for the Bristol Macmillan Cancer Relief Appeal. more...
I WAS saddened to read of the diagnostic mistakes made at local hospitals. more...
A few weeks ago, the Mayor of Trowbridge was, in my opinion, unfairly attacked for the state of her front garden. more...
BOWLS more...
CYCLING more...
JUDO more...
HORSE RACING more...
ATHLETICS more...
Britain's youngest formula one driver, Jenson Button, could be spearheading the Williams challenge in this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix. more...
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