Wiltshire | Archive | 2000 | June
BEING a sales consultant in Newsquest's Digital Media is never dull - writes Philip Ludgate, digital media sales consultant. more...
TAKE a few tips in web design from our experts to give your business a beauty make-over. more...
IT'S an auction, Jim, but not as we know it... more...
THE Evening Advertiser is to open its doors to anyone wanting free access to the Internet. more...
THE Star Trek Armada strategy game (www.st-armada.com) will delight all Trekkies with its colourful graphics, raging outer space battles and numerous challenges - writes Katie Frearson. more...
SO you've got the hardware, bought some software and hooked on to an Internet server. more...
CALLING all Pokemon fans! First there was the game, then there was the movie and now there's . . . the website! more...
SHOPKEEPERS are clamouring for space on Newsquest's virtual High Street Shoppers World. more...
THE Internet revolution is gathering pace according to a new survey by communications giant Motorola. more...
NEWSQUEST Wiltshire has stepped up its commitment to internet services with an addition to its Digital Media team. more...
IN THE current storm over the so-called monopoly of Microsoft, you could be excused for thinking that the world and his wife all have PCs running Windows. more...
GLOSSY magazine Wallpaper recently opened its brand new website, which can be found at www.wallpaper.com, writes Katie Frearson. more...
VIEWS of Swindon and nearby towns and villages from the air at the start of the new millennium are to be shown to the eyes of the world. more...
THE Government has launched a special website for whistleblowers to pass on information about benefit cheats. more...
COMMUNICATIONS firm Comtech say they have solved the problem of missing out on those important telephone calls when you are surfing the Net. more...
LINKS are what the web is all about. more...
A NEW survey is predicting that as many as 850,000 people will be working in the Internet industry by 2003. more...
THE battle over MP3, the music format that has pitched Net users with record labels, is hotting up. more...
MEDIA man James Trudgian confesses it was his role as a marketing manager that first got him hooked to the Net. more...
NOT only has Billie Piper shot to the top of the charts, she has also taken the Newsquest website by storm. more...
NEWSQUEST, the parent company of the Evening Advertiser, the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald and the Wiltshire Times, is linking up with Schoolsnet, the country's top education website. more...
NEWSQUEST'S Thisiswiltshire website is proving to be a big hit bigger, in fact, than our Digital Media team in Swindon ever imagined. more...
A SWINDON off-licence has become a hive of bustling Internet surfers. more...
NEWSQUEST Wiltshire is giving all non-profit organisations the chance to build their very own website through its latest Internet initiative. more...
THE power to change your life is at your fingertips, thanks to our friendly fish character. more...
SHERRY ANTAL had an emotional reunion with the brother she had not seen for ten years after placing a free advertisement on the This Is Wiltshire website. more...
FORGET logging on to your computer to send an e-mail - the latest way to do it is by telephone. more...
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I HAVE just read (EA June 23) the attack on Frank Avenell by Mrs Anne Lubin. more...
THERE is so much criticism of the young people today that I feel I must tell you of the kindness I received on Friday when I, a pensioner, fell over on the pavement in Highworth. more...
June 24: THE Estelle School of Dance presentation of The Wizard of Oz at the Wyvern Theatre in aid of the Children's Society was a magnificent performance in which some 180 youngsters, aided by a small contingent of adults, performed a brilliant show. more...
WE would also like to respond to the plight of Wootton Bassett's sports development officer, Chris Kirkland. more...
THE sum of £49,000 to make a junction safe. Who's kidding who? more...
I DEPLORE the decision of the Swindon Borough Council to deprive little handicapped Georgia Rant of her taxi ride to school in Queens Drive. more...
AFTER the derisory 75p increase in the old age pension Tony Blair in the House of Commons at question time reiterates what the Government has done for pensioners. more...
READERS who have an orange or blue disabled badge should know that if they have a day out at Weston-super-Mare the car parking is not free apart from the sea front in marked off disabled spaces. more...
HOW can Swindon Borough Council claim that it continually strives to improve its services when the latest move to stop emptying dustbins is likely to result in streets strewn with rubbish (even more than now). more...
THE BOYFRIEND of a 22-year-old Swindon woman who tragically died in a car crash along with three friends is dedicating a dance event to their memory. more...
SITTING behind a desk in the heart of the Civic Offices is the most powerful woman in Swindon council leader Sue Bates. more...
WORKING mum Claire Jeffcutt thinks her job is the best in the world. more...
YOUNGSTERS at Moredon Infants School have been enjoying all the fun of the fete. more...
WORKING parents are being urged by South Swindon MP Julia Drown to ensure they claim extra funding for families. more...
WAITER Gareth Harris has been handed a top award for his outstanding table service. more...
SWINDON Academy of Dance's recent show Simply the Best, staged at the Wyvern Theatre, raised £500 for the Wiltshire branch of The Children's Society. more...
STEAM has had its crowning glory. more...
PATIENTS still struggling to come to terms with the aftermath of a former consultant's blunders at Swindon's Princess Margaret Hospital have met to discuss the way forward. more...
LICENCE dodgers were caught in a month-long crackdown targeting offenders in Swindon. more...
PASSENGERS claim they are being forced to wait hours for buses that should arrive every 10 minutes. more...
THE parents of a little girl who is locked in a silent world are setting up an appeal fund to pay for dolphin therapy which may stimulate her speech. more...
POLICE are concerned for the safety of two missing teenage girls. more...
DRUNKS are continuing to make a menace of themselves at Swindon Bus Station just days after the problem was highlighted by the Evening Advertiser. more...
TELEVISION star Dale Winton called into Swindon to record a hush-hush segment for his BBC show. more...
A JEALOUS lover booby-trapped an Army major's car with a home-made bomb after discovering his girlfriend was two-timing him, a court heard. more...
I note David Phipps' response to my recent letter (Friday, June 16)and, to quote him: A few points in response . more...
LIKE J Kelly (June 22) I came across a bus driver who scrutinised my bus pass with thoroughness. more...
FOOTBALL: Kevin Keegan's tactics have been criticised by UEFA in a damning report on England's brief stay at Euro 2000. The report begins: For England the lessons of yesterday never seem to impact on the fevered anticipation of tomorrow. A nation that since 1966 boasts just one European Championship semi-final and a single FIFA World Cup semi-final should have no expectation of success, but another early exit from a major tournament is accompanied to the backdrop of bitter anguish. more...
Paul Nicholls today claimed he was not shocked or surprised at the loss of leading two-mile chaser Flagship Uberalles. more...
ALTHOUGH he had already qualified, Joe Thompson made doubly sure when he won the latest Swindon Angling Festival qualifier held at Liden Lagoon on Sunday. more...
SWINDON Harriers' men's team continued their impressive start to the season with another away victory at East London in their third Southern Men's League Division One match. more...
WOEFUL Wiltshire served up a shambles of a performance to crash to a chastening 10-wicket ECB 38-County Cup defeat against the Gloucestershire Board XI at the County Ground. more...
Swindon bounced back from last week's nail-biting defeat with a comfortable away win over high-flying Old Bristolians on Saturday. more...
The bowling heroics of spin-twins Paul Stoddard and Mark Flay gave GWR a comprehensive win against Oxford Nondescripts at Shrivenham Road. more...
An excellent team performance enabled Wootton Bassett to beat the previously undefeated leaders Winget by four wickets at Gloucester on Saturday. more...
PURTON suffered the agony of losing their home fixture to Red Marley by just three runs. more...
YOUNGSTERS stole the honours in the latest round of matches in the Wiltshire League. more...
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IT has been a hectic two weeks since my last column. more...
Gloucestershire want their third-round NatWest Trophy match with Worcestershire to be replayed after an ineligible bowler was used in the tie last week. more...
When God was dishing out talent, he must have lost concentration when he came to the Mills brothers, because he gave them an overdose. more...
Nuno Gomes insists Portugal are not out for revenge against the French but are gunning for a place in their first-ever major championship final. more...
Hellenic Premier side Swindon Supermarine are on the lookout for a new chairman to replace Steve Moore who has retired after ten years involvement with the club. more...
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