Wiltshire | Archive | 2000 | June
G S BARNES (June 14) deserves support. There are other options for siting a football stadium besides those suggested in your paper and the Oasis site is very worthy of consideration. more...
THE Wiltshire Air Ambulance Day on Saturday April 22 to mark the 10th anniversary of our Air Ambulance was very successful. more...
I WAS born in 1936 in Gloucester and by the time I was just over a year old both my parents had died and I was brought up by my maternal grandmother who knew, or at least told me, nothing of my father's side of the family. My brother and sister also knew little until I told them what I had found. more...
MANY families who have elected to have a non-religious funeral ceremony will be pleased to know that this year I have been invited to represent them at the annual Open Day Service of Remembrance at Kingsdown Crematorium. more...
PLEASE can Swindon Council provide a breakdown of the £36,000 required for building a wall in Dorcan with which to keep out our Romany friends. more...
ON June 14, I took my pet to the vets, not for the first time. more...
THIS is not the first time a public figure in the Swindon area has announced plans like this. more...
DRINKERS who want to know where they can sup their ale with a ghost, or where the landlady used to lock her customers in on payday, can get the lowdown from a new glossy colour guide to the 99 pubs of Arkell's Brewery. more...
WORK begins on Monday to tear up and replace the worn runways, taxiways and aircraft parking areas at RAF Fairford. more...
A BREWERY in Swindon is being sued by an Irish dancing group for allegedly cancelling one of its bookings. more...
THE jury in the trial of Nigel Carroll, who is accused of raiding women's homes and bombarding them with obscene phone calls, hasbeen told to put feelings of distaste aside. more...
MORE drivers have signed up in support of a village's anti-speeding pledge. more...
YOUNGSTER Louise Hunt got the chance to meet her favourite Swindon celebrity at a special charity party in London and she wasn't a bit fazed. more...
THE chairwoman of the Wiltshire Health Authority has spoken of her delight at being awarded a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours. more...
THE Scope charity shop in Swindon's Brunel Centre could soon be shut down. more...
SHAW Ridge School is being presented with its extra cash from the Government by South Swindon MP Julia Drown. more...
THE Prospect Hospice was enjoying a golden day today. more...
VANDALS have destroyed a memorial garden created to remember meningitis victim Amy-Louise Bowns. more...
POLICE are hunting a robber who threatened a man with a knife just minutes after offering him a lift. more...
THE FOUR young people from Swindon who died in the horrific four-car pile up on their way back from an all-night dance rave have been named by police. more...
MORE than 300 people packed into The Windmill pub in Freshbrook last night to witness England's crucial Euro 2000 match shown Samba-style. more...
TWO stepbrothers wept as they were ordered to apologise and pay compensation to two ten-year-olds they robbed for Pokemon cards. more...
THE first Honda CR-V four-wheel car will come off the production line in Swindon tomorrow. more...
LITTLE Georgia Rant suffers from a rare genetic disorder that means she needs constant care and attention. more...
A LECHLADE landlord has just completed his sixth gruelling London to Brighton bicycle ride. more...
When the envelope containing the Rt Rev Barry Rogerson's reply came I held it tightly for a long time before opening it. more...
THE most charitable thing to be said about the vandals who've damaged Elizabeth Bowns' garden is that they aren't aware it was planted in memory of her infant daughter. more...
SWINDON Borough Council's decision that Helen Rant must now push her handicapped daughter to the Chalet School because they live only half a mile away seems unnecessarily harsh. more...
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