Wiltshire | Archive | 2000 | June
MAY I, through the columns of your newspaper, thank everyone who supported the Family Fun Day run by Bradford on Avon Lions Club on spring bank holiday Monday (May 29). more...
THERE has recently been an open letter from Alan Milburn, Secretary of State for Health, inviting the public to write to him on health concerns. In the same letter he said all letters will receive a reply. more...
THE announcement that the government, flush with funds and close to a general election, has decided to reinstate road building schemes is excellent news for Bradford on Avon and environmentalists, and the despised car user. more...
By Sara Oliver more...
By Heather Skull more...
THE fight against noise continues in west Wiltshire. more...
By Joanne Kelly more...
WHEN headteachers retire they are supposed to bite their tongues and take up gardening. more...
I DO not think your Chippenham News front page of June 2 is correct in reporting Rudloe Manor has historically been part of Hartham Park. more...
In common with many others I am greatly incensed at the BBC's refusal to screen the pageant in honour of the Queen Mother. Their argument is that it is a minority interest a comment which could be made about many of the tedious events which are screened at length. more...
On Thursday June 1, I was shopping with my 85-year-old mother in the Shires Shopping Centre in Trowbridge when she was taken ill with an angina attack. more...
SOME time last week someone left a pile of wood at the front of my house, presumably for refuse collection. Would this person kindly return and remove it, as the dustman would not take it and it is still there. more...
ON May 22, a lady's watch was found in the Silver Street Lane area of Trowbridge. This has been handed to Trowbridge Police Station. more...
I very much sympathise with the residents of Dilton Marsh, whose Holy Trinity Church and graveyard have been desecrated by vandals (Wiltshire Times, June 2). more...
What do two hotels (with many foreign guests), two riding centres, a caravan site (slow, towing vehicles), a family pub, a nursery school, the entrance to Wessex Water, and now Ms Styles (Wiltshire Times, June 2) have in common. more...
By Sari Eldridge more...
CENTENARY celebrations for Marjorie Smith were tinged with sadness as her 100th birthday came just a week after her husband died. more...
By Holly Robinson more...
By Keri Eldridge more...
HUNDREDS beat a path to Holt at the weekend for two days of music and entertainment. more...
By Sara Oliver more...
By Heather Skull more...
THE fight against noise continues in west Wiltshire. more...
By Sari Eldridge more...
By Joanne Kelly more...
CENTENARY celebrations for Marjorie Smith were tinged with sadness as her 100th birthday came just a week after her husband died. more...
By Keri Eldridge more...
HUNDREDS beat a path to Holt at the weekend for two days of music and entertainment. more...
By Joanne Kelly more...
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DON'T like football? Tough luck, because there is little at the movies to distract you while Euro 2000 dominates TV screens for the next few weeks. more...
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Swindon artist Fred Blunt has an exhibition of caricatures and pictures at The Beehive, Prospect Hill, Old Town until June 30. Free entry during normal pub opening hours. more...
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Wyvern Theatre, Swindon: more...
Councillor Nick Martin (June 5) calls for the Swindon Education Authority to support its secondary schools by finding competent teachers to fill vacancies in subject areas where there are shortages. more...
THE Conservatives have promised to give pensioners back our respect, by giving a single pensioner (like myself) a £5 increase, after taking away all those nasty handouts the Labour Party has given us. more...
I AM writing with reference to the removal of number 26 bus. more...
SETTING targets to reduce exclusions from schools is a nonsense. Schools must have the freedom to deal with discipline as they believe is appropriate for the child and the school. more...
HOW pleased I was to read Anne Lubin's letter, thanking William Hague and his fellow Tories for being so kindly disposed towards pensioners and listing all the things that the Tories had done during their long term of office, to the detriment of ordinary people and pensioners. more...
A LARK in the park is set to raise hundreds of pounds for a disabled children's activity holiday. more...
MARTHA the fire engine is on the mend, thanks to the generosity of school pupils. more...
FINAL touches are being put to the new Steam museum ready for the official opening by the Prince of Wales. more...
USERS of a threatened historic sports ground have had an update on the development plans which could partially close it. more...
EDITH Liddle never thought she would live to the age of 100. more...
A MAN has been freed on bail after magistrates heard how he took three vehicles and tried to make off in another in a series of night time raids in Swindon. more...
A householder keen to do his bit for the environment was unhappy to find containers full to overflowing when he visited the Swindon's Barnfield Road Recycling Centre. more...
THE Swindon-based travel agent John Owen Travel Worldchoice has another major travel industry award for its already impressive collection. more...
A SUPPORT group for people in Swindon who are HIV positive or have AIDS is closing down at the end of June. more...
A CHEQUE for £1,000 from Swindon Arts Foundation will help young actors put on a contemporary production of one of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies. more...
WALKERS enjoying the Millenn-ium Trail around Swindon could be placed in danger by speeding drivers, a county councillor warns. more...
Two young cooks were the toast of their schools after producing the winning taste of Swindon. more...
YOUNGSTERS are getting on their bikes to raise money for ChildLine the free national helpline for children in danger or trouble. more...
A HOLE in the road which brought Old Town to a standstill was expected to have been repaired by noon today. more...
South Swindon MP Julia Drown has stepped up her campaign to raise the age of recruitment to the armed forces from 16 to 18. more...
LOW pay and a bad press have rocked recruitment figures within Wiltshire police force. more...
TWO sisters are celebrating a double bundle of joy - after giving birth to sons on the same day and in the same maternity unit. more...
A TEENAGER broke down in tears as she told a court how an intruder dropped his trousers andexposed himself to her outside her Swindon home. more...
NAIL bomber David Copeland was responsible for recruiting neo-Nazis in Wiltshire. more...
A PETITION calling for an end to all human cloning is being backed by a Swindon pro-life group. more...
A CONFERENCE on raising levels of achievement in Swindon schools is being held today. more...
A CHURCH at the centre of a £1.6 million land row has been daubed with graffiti in a vandal attack causing hundreds of pounds of damage. more...
Every day this week, the Advertiser has been highlighting the people who make Penhill special. Today, SHIRLEY MATHIAS charts the history of the estate. more...
TEENAGERS Dennis King and David Markland have been jailed after a judge heard how a man was stabbed as they robbed him of his training shoes. more...
SWINDON Town Football Club was today urged to consider all options for siting its new multi-million pound stadium. more...
THE council's so-called cabinet has had to dodge more than a bit of flack since the plan to set it up was announced before the May election. more...
IF ever there was an argument for not moaning about growing old, it's the three centenarians of Langton House. more...
IN my time I have given talks about being a journalist to just about every Women's Institute in North Wiltshire. more...
PAUL FRY scorched to a superb 15 point maximum to edge Swindon Robins into the quarter finals of the KO Cup and a meeting with Berwick next month. more...
NEW Town shareholder Terry Brady wants to lead the club into the Premiership by 2005. more...
Jon Callard's appointment as Bath's new head coach was confirmed yesterday. more...
PREPARATIONS for tomorrow's Vodafone Derby have been confused ever since the start of the flat season and, consequently, plenty of horses have a black mark against their name. more...
JON LEWIS is looking to lead Gloucester-shire to an incredible hat-trick at Lord's tomorrow. more...
SWINDON GWR 1st XI are determined to claim victory against struggling FS Wallingford tomorrow. more...
THE 1st XI keep an unchanged side for the visit of Brislington after snapping up their first league win last weekend. more...
WITH all four teams failing to register a win last week the sides have been selected more in hope than expectation. more...
Division One: Box v Swindon Nalgo; Lechlade v Buscot Park; Calne v Minety; Potterne v Westinghouse; Marlborough v Hinton Charterhouse. more...
By Sari Eldridge more...
By Sara Oliver more...
CENTENARY celebrations for Marjorie Smith were tinged with sadness as her 100th birthday came just a week after her husband died. more...
By Keri Eldridge more...
TELEVISION magician Dominic Wood made a personal appearance at the Wiltshire Times offices in Trowbridge last Thursday, to meet winners of a recent Junior Times magic video competition. more...
By Sara Oliver more...
By Sara Oliver more...
THE fight against noise continues in west Wiltshire. more...
By Joanne Kelly more...
By Sara Oliver more...
By Sari Eldridge more...
CENTENARY celebrations for Marjorie Smith were tinged with sadness as her 100th birthday came just a week after her husband died. more...
By Keri Eldridge more...
By Sara Oliver more...
TEACHERS have been given top marks in a national competition to recognise regional excellence. more...
THE fight against noise continues in west Wiltshire. more...
By Joanne Kelly more...
By Sara Oliver more...
By Heather Skull more...
TEACHERS have been given top marks in a national competition to recognise regional excellence. more...
By Sari Eldridge more...
CENTENARY celebrations for Marjorie Smith were tinged with sadness as her 100th birthday came just a week after her husband died. more...
By Keri Eldridge more...
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