Wiltshire | Archive | 2000 | September
PLANS for a new community hospital in Bradford on Avon have moved a step forward, dispelling fears the project could be delayed. more...
A POST-mortem examination has revealed a Bradford on Avon man found dead by the canal on Sunday, September 24, had suffered a heart attack. more...
RUGBY fans who were disappointed a star player did not show for a celebrity match have been told he knew nothing about the event. more...
POTENTIALLY dangerous mentally ill patients are being deprived of vital services in west Wiltshire because senior health staff are more interested in safeguarding their jobs. more...
VITAL community schemes could be under threat following the decision to stop inmates from Erlestoke Prison working on them. more...
PLANS are being prepared to make it easier for people from the north and west of the county to visit the Royal United Hospital at Bath. more...
Child road accident survivor Holly Clark has won Warminster's Peter Gough Achievement Award. more...
CAN you help put a smile on a child's face this Christmas? more...
PLANNING applications received by West and North Wiltshire district councils during the week ending September 22 include: more...
A CRITICAL report has attacked the decision to build controversial council offices in Chippenham. more...
A WOMAN from Neston, near Corsham, has spoken of her relief at escaping unhurt after her car was sliced open by a digger. more...
PICTURESQUE Corsham became the backdrop for the sad tale of the Mayor of Casterbridge. more...
Before opening the meeting on September 19 the president, Yvonne Hepburn, asked members to stand for a minute's silence in memory of Rizpah Thornber, who sadly passed away in August. more...
Hollow Man (18) is a hokey slasher movie dressed up with fancy scientific talk which establishes an interesting moral conundrum, but forsakes all intelligent discussion in favour of slam-bang visual pyrotechnics. more...
LET'S face it, Clint Eastwood is just a big kid at heart. more...
UGC cinema, Shaw Ridge: 0541 555134 more...
DETERMINED travellers filled in trenches and cut through chains to get on to land at Melksham. more...
SCHOOLFRIENDS have helped a former classmate who has benefited from care of a local charity. more...
BBC 1's popular Sunday programme Antiques Roadshow will open its doors to the Melksham public. more...
POTENTIALLY dangerous mentally ill patients are being deprived of vital services in west Wiltshire because senior health staff are more interested in safeguarding their jobs. more...
VITAL community schemes could be under threat following the decision to stop inmates from Erlestoke Prison working on them. more...
PLANS are being prepared to make it easier for people from the north and west of the county to visit the Royal United Hospital at Bath. more...
Child road accident survivor Holly Clark has won Warminster's Peter Gough Achievement Award. more...
CAN you help put a smile on a child's face this Christmas? more...
PLANNING applications received by West and North Wiltshire district councils during the week ending September 22 include: more...
TROWBRIDGE schoolboy Jonathan Manning has helped Great Britain to victory in the World Carp Classic in France. more...
The Wilts Angling Charity Open match fished at Rood Ashton raised more than £500 for the Friends of the Pain Clinic at the RUH at Bath and there were good catches of carp taken. more...
HIGHWORTH Town have a chance to pull three points clear of rivals Supermarine at the top of the Hellenic Premier when they visit Pegasus Juniors tomorrow (Saturday, September 30). more...
Skurrays Wiltshire League: more...
A NEW five-a-side indoor league is coming to Swindon at the start of next month. It is being organised and run by Leisure Leagues, a company which specialises in running various sports leagues across England and Wales. The new league will be contested at Pinehurst Sports Centre on Sunday evenings. The games will be half-an-hour long on a pay-as-you-play format, and the league will run for 15 to 20 weeks. Any team wishing to enter should contact Leisure Leagues on 0467-224870 for an information pack. more...
TROWBRIDGE: Bromham Reserves, newcomers to the league this season, caused an upset in the preliminary round of the Trowbridge League Knockout Cup, sponsored by Reflections Niteclub, Westbury, when they edged out Freshford United in a nine-goal thriller which ended 5-4 after extra time. more...
BACKWELL UTD 0, WARMINSTER TOWN 1: Warminster took the initiative straight from the kick-off FA Carlsberg Vaseand in the second minute, Chris Welsby's effort was tipped over for a corner that was finally cleared after a fumble by Backwell goalkeeper Richard Ollis. more...
CHIPPENHAM Town chairman Malcolm Lyus has promised supporters the club will be able to take up a promotion place if the team finish in the top two of the table at the end of the season. more...
STRIKER Mark Cutler is set to defy doctor's orders and resume his playing career with Chippenham Town. more...
CHIPPENHAM TOWN 2, ODD DOWN 2: NEW signing Noel O'Sullivan took just three minutes to open his goal account and put Chippenham on the way to a deserved victory. more...
THE newly-formed Chippenham Ladies football club made a winning start with their B team beating Swindon Ladies 6-1. more...
Swindon 1st XV v Windsor 1st XV: Swindon face their toughest league challenge for a couple of seasons against Windsor at home tomorrow. more...
Redingensians v Bassett: Wootton Bassett travel to Berkshire in an attempt to get their Southern Counties South campaign off the ground. more...
Swindon College Old Boys travel to Bournemouth tomorrow aiming for their fourth straight win. more...
TROWBRIDGE 2NDS 46, COLERNE 10: TROWBRIDGE 2nd XV faced a potentially difficult game against Colerne 1st XV on Saturday but put in a well disciplined and competent display to run out 46-10 winners. more...
IN this opening match of the season the the Melksham and Devizes Blackcats adapted beautifully to their first fixture on a full-sized pitch. more...
IT was a disappointing long journey for our loyal supporters last weekend, only to witness our worst performance of the season. more...
ROB Thirlby scored 17 points in the corresponding fixture last season and Jon Callard will be delighted if the winger-cum-full-back can do the same again tomorrow. more...
Bath players in 30-man England squad for South Africa Test: Matt Perry, Mike Tindall, Iain Balshaw, Mike Catt, Mark Regan, Steve Borthwick. more...
COLIN Todd wants to mould the future of Swindon Town around the example set by tomorrow's (Saturday, September 30) opponents Wigan. more...
FORMER Swindon Town boss Steve McMahon has been fined £450 with £300 costs after admitting to threatening behaviour. more...
THERE was a time when everything touched by the Colin Todd and Bruce Rioch partnership turned to gold. more...
ADAM Willis is determined to return from his latest setback a better player. more...
CHARLIE Griffin could not have made his point more plainly in the last week. more...
STRIKER Andy Liddell was voted Latics' player of the season last year. more...
FANS are encouraged to attend the celebrity football match between Town's 1993 Wembley Heroes and Jess Conrad's Showbiz XI. more...
LET'S face it, Clint Eastwood is just a big kid at heart. more...
UGC cinema, Shaw Ridge: 0541 555134 more...
The Uk Garage singer, MC and former footballer grew up in London and formed the group D-Firm which played soul and R `n' B. more...
Friday, September 29:CEROC new dance craze at the Memorial Hall, Station Road, 7.45pm to 11pm. in Wootton Bassett. 07899 967144. Admission £4.50. more...
Friday, September 29:Junior keep fit and self defence at Drove road Primary School Hall, age groups 7-15 years, 6.00pm to 7.00pm. (07714) 575751. Adult classes 7.0pm to 9.00pm. more...
Friday, September 29:Penhill Community Association Bingo is at Community Centre, Chippenham Close, Penhill, from 7.30pm. (01793) 724760. more...
Saturday, September 30:Western Branch Labour Party Jumble Sale at Rodbourne Road Methodist hall 2pm. (01793) 340310. more...
Hollow Man (18) is a hokey slasher movie dressed up with fancy scientific talk which establishes an interesting moral conundrum, but forsakes all intelligent discussion in favour of slam-bang visual pyrotechnics. more...
IRISH dancing teacher Michael McInerney has finally taken the plunge and given up his job to concentrate full-time on his pupils. more...
REVIEW: THE Phoenix Players have long been in the premier league of amateur theatre. more...
Friday, September 29:Wizards of Oz pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne at the Queen's Tap, Station Road. £2 on the door. more...
A Swindon theatre company will be touring local schools this autumn with its production of the Just So Stories. more...
Friday, September 29:Bring The Noise with Radio One's Timmi Magic, Mikee B and Lonyo with V2 Crew, Real Deal and Big Tony playing garage in the main room and 2 Vibe crew and Martin playing R `n' B, soul , hip hop and ragga in the amphi is at the Brunel Rooms, Havelock Square from 10pm to 4am. Tickets from £8. more...
Friday, September 29:UK Garage and Funky House is at the Shaftsbury Club, (function room) Shaftsbury Avenue, Park South from seven-11pm Tickets: :£2.50 on the door. (01793) 335146. more...
Friday, September 29:Opus One concert featuring Michael Chivers and Geof Waters with a four-piece band is at the Marriot Hotel, Swindon from 7.30pm. there are a few tickets left at £6 from Swindon 813161 or 814877. more...
Arts Centre, Devizes Road, Old Town, Swindon: Beyond Reasonable Doubt by the Phoenix Players, court room drama. Time: 7.30pm. Sold out. Ends Saturday, September 30. Tickets from (01793) 525616 more...
Your edition of September 20 contained two articles of considerable significance. more...
I have never read a letter in my life so biased and ill informed as the one by Philip Beaven on September 22 headlined `Why should we back the farmers?' more...
Coun Peter Brown says that any reduction in fuel tax will mean less money to spend on public services "10p reduction equating to £5 billion less to the Treasury''. It's not quite that simple Mr Brown. more...
Regarding comments made about me on the letters page September 27. more...
The proposed development of the Front Garden continues to attract comment via your letters page. The ball is still clearly in play, as far as Swindon's residents are concerned. more...
In his xenophobic rant against all things European (September 21), Peter Bates refers to Blair and his cronies as though only a tiny cabal are in favour of closer integration, including a common currency, while the majority are against. more...
It may be legitimate to organise a march against the Euro, but that should not be an excuse to mislead people on fact. more...
Recent letters have attempted to make a case for us to scrap the pound and join the Euro. more...
Residents living in a home for the elderly were today playing host to an MP and councillor to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Relief. more...
Swindon Council has joined the widespread condemnation of the millions spent on the Millennium Dome. more...
This year's Remembrance Day parade in Highworth should run with military precision, thanks to 74-year-old former serviceman Dick Humphries. more...
There's a rare opportunity for filmgoers to get their money back at a Swindon cinema today. more...
Julila Drown MP has welcomed government research which shows that buyers and sellers of houses approve of the idea of a seller's pack. more...
A voluntary project called Mindfully Employed is planning a reception to tell people how it helps those who have suffered mental health problems into work. more...
A woman driver was found to be more than three times the drink drive limit when she was stopped behind the wheel of a Ford Fiesta. more...
Business Link Wiltshire and Swindon has appointed a new member to its team of business start-up advisors. more...
A steam locomotive built half a century ago at the Swindon rail works is returning to work on one of its old lines. more...
A public inquiry held to decide whether a Wroughton karting centre broke planning rules has come to an end after a final site visit. more...
Hatherop Castle School near Fairford is holding a Christmas gift and fashion fair on October 21 from 2pm until 4pm. Organ-isers promise stalls selling gifts suitable for the whole family, as well as entertainment for the children.The entrance fee is £2 for adults. Children get in free. more...
Research worker Emma Gray is taking a year off work to travel the world and her first port of call will be an island off the coast of Africa which has its own unique wildlife. more...
Doctors in Swindon are spending £200,000 too much on prescribing drugs to patients, forcing finance chiefs to make cutbacks in other areas of the health service. more...
DOCTORS from Princess Margaret Hospital could do nothing to stop a Wootton Bassett woman dying, an inquest heard. more...
A popular local has welcomed more than 400 customers through the doors for its fourth beer festival, Beerex. more...
Town crier Fred Ferris will help to shout about Breast Cancer Awareness month in Swindon. more...
Marlborough's Holli Kilburn is taking a modern apprenticeship to help her open a traditional business fitting out canal boats. more...
Headlands School old boys and girls have responded in large numbers to a reunion plea made through the Advertiser. more...
EX-servicemen and women are keeping in touch via the internet thanks to Wilts-hire's new community network CommuniGate. more...
Would-be Billie Pipers of the future flocked to auditions at the Town Hall headquarters of Swindon Dance. more...
Traders spent an evening learning how to support Swindon's Shopmobility service. more...
Libraries in Wiltshire are consulting the public about services. more...
Swindon's junior chess international Leigh Debbage led Wiltshire Under 18s to an outstanding second place in the national team quickplay championships in Stoke on Trent. more...
A school play led to a part in the biggest British film this year for teenager Kyrle Simpson. more...
A live World War Two mortar bomb was unearthed by workmen this morning at the bridge over the Thames at Castle Eaton. more...
Supermarkets in Swindon could run dry of milk as early as next week if blockades begin at the dairies, farmers have warned. more...
A man accused of a string of rapes and sex attacks on a young girl and her half brother told a jury that he had never acted improperly towards either of the youngsters. more...
Curry crazed Paul Vaughan is so desperate to get a fix of his favourite food that he flies home to Swindon from Germany every month just to stock up on the stuff. more...
The whereabouts of a convicted killer whose brother is believed to live in Swindon today remained a mystery. more...
The widow of a former railway worker who died from mesothelioma known as the Swindon cancer has been awarded a large but undisclosed sum in compensation. more...
Geography student Mark Szeliga is so concerned about the future of hospital services in Swindon, he decided to make it the focus of his GCSE project. more...
Countless people will sympathise with the plight of dairy farmers who are working hard to produce milk on which they are losing money. more...
Young Kyrle Simpson scored an amazing achievement in being chosen for a part in the film Billy Elliott after being spotted in a school play. more...
POTENTIALLY dangerous mentally ill patients are being deprived of vital services in west Wiltshire because senior health staff are more interested in safeguarding their jobs. more...
VITAL community schemes could be under threat following the decision to stop inmates from Erlestoke Prison working on them. more...
PLANS are being prepared to make it easier for people from the north and west of the county to visit the Royal United Hospital at Bath. more...
Child road accident survivor Holly Clark has won Warminster's Peter Gough Achievement Award. more...
CAN you help put a smile on a child's face this Christmas? more...
PLANNING applications received by West and North Wiltshire district councils during the week ending September 22 include: more...
HELL'S Angels and other bikers from all over the south west met in Trowbridge to pay tribute to motorcyclist Davey Wallace. more...
A SERIES of assaults in Trowbridge have renewed fears that town-centre violence is increasing. more...
THE day little Jack Sully started at school was one his parents Tracey and Andrew thought they would never see. more...
OPPOSITION to plans to build a £2m hostel for recovering addicts and young drifters near Trowbridge is as strong as ever. more...
A COUPLE who went their separate ways after marrying young have been reunited, despite telling their children it would never happen. more...
LET'S face it, Clint Eastwood is just a big kid at heart. more...
UGC cinema, Shaw Ridge: 0541 555134 more...
IN a last-minute change to the programme, veterans of the London blues circuit, Blues De Luxe, will be playing at the Mount Pleasant Club in Bradford on Avon on October 21. more...
Friday, September 29: Arfur Porter Cellar Bar, George Street, Bath more...
REVIEW: IT was a real mixed bag at the Melksham Assembly Hall on when bands and a choir from the George Ward School joined forces with Beatles tribute band Sgt Pepper's Only Dart Board Band as a special late music event in support of the Melksham Carnival. more...
LIVE music has been relaunched at The Pig Club in Trowbridge. more...
Hollow Man (18) is a hokey slasher movie dressed up with fancy scientific talk which establishes an interesting moral conundrum, but forsakes all intelligent discussion in favour of slam-bang visual pyrotechnics. more...
Supergirly, Louise McClatchy and Jai Simeone are back, bringing their Naughty But Nice show to the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon on October 4. more...
ARC THEATRE, TROWBRIDGE, Tel: (01225) 756376/766241 more...
EATING OUT: First a warning. If you are trying to lose weight or are about to start a diet, stop reading now. more...
FOUR of the country's most popular touring acts come together for the first time ever in what promises to be an unparalleled evening of energetic rock, rhythm n' blues and sheer lunacy. more...
Friday, September 29: more...
REVIEW: God Only Knows, Theatre Royal, Bath more...
The second co-promotion between the Arc Theatre and The Trowbridge Village Pump Festival looks set to raise the roof. more...
REVIEW: Tom Clarke's Birthday Concert, Pump Room, Bath more...
POTENTIALLY dangerous mentally ill patients are being deprived of vital services in west Wiltshire because senior health staff are more interested in safeguarding their jobs. more...
VITAL community schemes could be under threat following the decision to stop inmates from Erlestoke Prison working on them. more...
PLANS are being prepared to make it easier for people from the north and west of the county to visit the Royal United Hospital at Bath. more...
Child road accident survivor Holly Clark has won Warminster's Peter Gough Achievement Award. more...
CAN you help put a smile on a child's face this Christmas? more...
PLANNING applications received by West and North Wiltshire district councils during the week ending September 22 include: more...
OLYMPIC fever will hit Warminster when gold medal rower Ben Hunt-Davis returns home triumphant from Sydney. more...
VITAL plans to save the Assembly Hall in Warminster may see the town council take over control next April. more...
THE POLITICAL future of disgraced councillor John Syme looks brighter, after revelations about his secret lovechild were branded as of a personal nature rather than a political one. more...
WESTBURY town councillor David Tout has been fined after cycling into a pensioner and then riding off. more...
MATRAVERS School in Westbury is an exciting place to be at the moment. more...
CONCERNS have been raised over an animal ambulance service to be launched in Westbury on Sunday, October 1. more...
POTENTIALLY dangerous mentally ill patients are being deprived of vital services in west Wiltshire because senior health staff are more interested in safeguarding their jobs. more...
VITAL community schemes could be under threat following the decision to stop inmates from Erlestoke Prison working on them. more...
PLANS are being prepared to make it easier for people from the north and west of the county to visit the Royal United Hospital at Bath. more...
Child road accident survivor Holly Clark has won Warminster's Peter Gough Achievement Award. more...
CAN you help put a smile on a child's face this Christmas? more...
PLANNING applications received by West and North Wiltshire district councils during the week ending September 22 include: more...
Ambient Energy has insisted its bid to build a £10 million green power plant near Cricklade will go ahead, despite North Wiltshire District Council throwing the plans out. more...
Swindon Robins 49, Newcastle Diamonds 41: (Newcastle win bonus point after run-off) more...
A school play led to a part in the biggest British film this year for teenager Kyrle Simpson. more...
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