Wiltshire | Archive | 2001 | January
Honda UK has failed to cut operating losses at its Swindon plant on schedule. more...
FOURTEEN solicitors from across both counties have met to form the Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Regional Group of the Solicitors Family Law Association. more...
AS the Swindon office of Property Consultants Alder King continues to expand, Alan Morrish has been appointed to head the professional department with responsibility for valuations and rent reviews. more...
Lloyds TSB's proposed takeover of Abbey National has taken step forward after it submitted details of the planned deal to the Office of Fair Trading. more...
New car sales last year accelerated to the third ever highest annual total. more...
The man who three years ago made a bold but unsuccessful £1 billion bid for WH Smith, is once again trying to get control of Waterstone's, arguably Britain's best known book seller. more...
The housing market ended last year on a downbeat note, with house prices falling by 1.1 per cent in December in comparison with the previous month, according to new figures from Halifax bank. more...
The Belgian government has criticised the UK's decision to block Interbrew's £2.3 billion takeover of Bass's brewing business. more...
Online auction house QXL has appointed Adam Singer, boss of telecoms firm Telewest Communications, to its board as a non-executive director. Mr Singer, chief executive of Telewest, will join the company, which has been known as QXL ricardo since it took over the German firm of that name, immediately. more...
Tour operator Airtours is to parachute a new boss into its troubled German subsidiary with orders to return it to profitability. more...
Purton 1, Worcester College OB 2: Purton, looking for their third league win on the trot, disappointed their band of followers with a poor performance against Worcester College Old Boys. more...
Hellenic: Highworth Town missed out on a chance to regain top spot in the Premier Division when they were well beaten at Brackley by four goals to two. more...
Screwfix: Former Swindon Town full-back Phil King smashed home a wonder strike from 30 yards to put Bath City Reserves 1-0 up against Pewsey Vale, but Don Rogers' plucky underdogs fought back for a draw. more...
WILTSHIRE football is facing its biggest fixture crisis for nearly half a century. more...
DEFENDER Kevin Bush is set to return to the Melksham Town squad for tomorrow's Screwfix Direct League First Division derby match at near neighbours Devizes Town. more...
Hellenic League: APPROACHING the half way stage in the Hellenic League, Swindon Supermarine and Highworth Town are setting the pace in the Premier Division. more...
Neil Maycock scored all Swindon's points as they recorded a narrow victory over Oxford Harlequins in their first league fixture for a month. more...
Bath 36, Northampton 13: Five tries, not one of them by a player over the age of 22, sliced Northampton apart as Bath's young guns gave an exhibition of champagne rugby in the second half at The Rec on Saturday. more...
THE excitement of Bath's excellent win was almost too much for head coach Jon Callard, who confessed to being `emotional' after the game. more...
RECORD gate receipts and an electric atmosphere provided Swindon Town's chief executive with reasons to smile despite defeat. more...
ANDY King's side may have been defeated but the Town boss did not feel they had been disgraced by the visitors. more...
DEFEAT was a hard fact to swallow for Scottish midfielder David Duke. more...
Coventry City manager Gordon Strachan praised his side's professionalism as they overcame a potential banana skin FA Cup tie to triumph 2-0 at Swindon. more...
THE pain of FA Cup defeat was tempered by a recall from the wilderness for Gareth Hall. more...
ANDY King raised the biggest cheer of the afternoon for his juggling skills on the touchline. more...
TOWN'S players enjoyed a red-hot reception before kick-off but ended the afternoon with a serious case of the FA Cup blues. more...
4 MINS - Ian Woan fires free kick wide of Kirkland's left hand post. more...
STEVE Cowe added a much needed spark to Town's attacking play. more...
TOWN's cup exit always looked on the cards from the moment Craig Bellamy punctured the pre-match optimism with a cool finish after only five minutes. more...
A Neil Harris hat-trick gave Millwall a 4-2 win at promotion rivals Reading and put the Lions three points clear at the top. more...
ONCE again I was annoyed by your negative reporting about the First Great Western Train service. Most of the time the trains do run to time, except when well reported weather problems etc delay the services, which cannot be blamed on either Railtrack or FGW. more...
ONE could be forgiven for thinking Councillor Brown and his wife Olive are privy to the thoughts of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. more...
CAN Mrs Brown tell us what will happen if Mr Brown doesn't achieve his target of growth? Will that mean spending cuts? more...
IN reply to a letter (December 29) in which Mr Reynolds says that families are £700 a year worse off since the 1997 election, nothing could be further from the truth. more...
THE regeneration of Old Town could provide most of the £570,000 needed to do up Swindon Arts Centre, a report has revealed. more...
THE rector of Blunsdon was bid a fond farewell by his parishioners at his retirement and birthday party. more...
A DEVELOPMENT of 68 houses at Haydon End Farm has been recommended for approval. more...
A BMX bicycle bought for eight-year-old Aaron Mason as a Christmas present was stolen from outside his home. more...
A PUB which offers its customers a pie and a pint and a night at the pictures may be heading for the record books as it sets a new trend of in-house entertainment. more...
CHILDREN are set to benefit from a superstore's New Year's resolution. more...
PUBS IN Swindon could soon be offering people the chance to swear to give to charity. more...
THE next phase of Swindon's multi-million-pound park and ride package could go straight to a public inquiry. more...
WHILE many people may have made New Year resolutions to get in shape or give up smoking, children's nurse Karen Dunham has gone one step further. more...
THE number of police in Wiltshire slumped by just under two per cent last year, Home Office figures reveal. more...
SOME homes in the next phase of Swindon's Northern Development Area could be built on a flood plain. more...
BUNGLING burglar Christopher Cooke picked the wrong window when he tried to break into a chemist in the dead of night and ended up in next door's bedroom. more...
KIDS were finally given the chance to enjoy splashing about at Swindon's Oasis swimming pool but not until their Christmas holidays were officially over. more...
IT took three years for Swindonians to make the town's own kidney dialysis unit a reality, but now a staffing crisis means patients are still not benefiting from the facilities on their doorstep. more...
A TEENAGER suffered serious leg injuries after he was knocked from his motorcycle in a hit and run accident. more...
BUS firm Thamesdown Transport has been forced to mimic rival firm Stagecoach by increasing drivers' wages but has warned that passengers will suffer the consequences. more...
TRAVELLING times for rail passengers were extended over the weekend as Railtrack carried out repairs to lines outside Swindon. more...
A RAFT of measures to attract more visitors to Swindon's flagship museum Steam have been drawn up. more...
A MASSIVE programme of roadworks starting today is set to cause further misery to drivers. more...
SWINDON pop star Billie Piper has kicked off an international campaign for needy children. more...
MERVYN Skull still can't believe his eyes when he wakes up each morning. more...
BURGLAR Anthony Belcher presented police with a full, clear image of his face, after moving slowly past a video camera thinking it was activated by motion. more...
OKAY, so they lost. In fact Town made two silly mistakes which cost them any chance of winning their FA Cup tie clash with Coventry on Saturday. more...
BUS firm Thamesdown Transport has been forced to mimic rival firm Stagecoach by increasing drivers' wages but has warned that passengers will suffer the consequences. more...
RECORD gate receipts and an electric atmosphere provided Swindon Town's chief executive with reasons to smile despite defeat. more...
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