Wiltshire | Archive | 2001 | March
ORGANISERS of the Bath International Music Festival promise an exceptional host of visiting musicians for this year's event, which starts on May 18. more...
Wednesday, March 21:Science week workshop with Cleo Witt at The Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 10.30am-12.30pm and 2pm-4pm. Call (01225) 444656. more...
Rejects Revenge Theatre Company presents The Bicycle Bridge, A City under Siege, Two Lovers, One Elephant at The Rondo Theatre, Larkhall, 8pm from March 30-31. more...
Amanda Goodburn, pictured, on violin and Hanja Strydom on piano appear at the Pump Room, Bath, 8pm on Saturday, with The Bath Recital Artists' Trust. more...
Thirteen Days (12) tackles a war that nearly happened. This is a dramatisation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as the US and Soviet Union confront each other with nuclear arsenals primed. more...
SAVING Private Ryan brought the horrors of war spilling on to the screen with dreadful reality, and the same can be said of Enemy at the Gates (15). more...
PEASEDOWN St John Primary School in Bath has passed its latest Ofsted inspection and is now out of special measures. more...
A TOWER crane moved into Bath city centre on March 17 as part of the Bath Spa Project. more...
Jane Dorner, former editor of Longman and a previous fiction reader for Penguin, will be at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Queen Square, Bath at lunchtime on March 30 for a talk on research on the internet. more...
AN employee of Milburns in Bath is in training for a 15-day Everest Base Camp Trek, to raise money for the charity Hope & Homes for Children. more...
A SCRIPTWRITER is to have his prizewinning play performed at the Bristol Old Vic in April. more...
STAFF at Bath housebuilder Beazer Homes's head office are waiting to hear if they are to lose their jobs, following the firm's takeover. more...
THE manager of a recording studio has teamed up with Bath musicians to release a charity record to pay for drugs for a multiple sclerosis sufferer. more...
A new trust says it has received such an overwhelming amount of support in its first few months that it is now inviting grant applications for community projects. more...
WITH just 11 weeks to go, organisers of the Royal Bath and West Show are hopeful that the west's major agricultural event of the year will be able to go ahead. more...
THE first Japanese restaurant which offers customers the chance to cook their own food has opened in Bath. more...
A KEYNSHAM school has taken step to reduce school traffic congestion by encouraging pupils to use their feet and their bikes. more...
A new Bath businessman who is offering a take-on-the-internet service has given his support to the Northgate priority access for buses scheme. more...
THE annual Bath MBA prize has been won by Nick Cook, for his report on the role of finance on high technology small firms. more...
TWO judo experts from Bath University scooped two medals each at the British Universities Judo Championships. more...
A PROPOSED supermarket in Radstock would result in environmental disaster, says Norton Radstock Town Council. more...
RADSTOCK police station is to undergo changes as part of a £490,000 package of government money aimed at strengthening rural policing. more...
CHILDREN at St John's CE VA Primary School in Midsomer Norton hung up their uniforms in favour of red clothes to raise money for Comic Relief. more...
A forklift truck company is celebrating three years of major growth after moving from Wootton Bassett to Cricklade. more...
Malmesbury-based Dyson Appliances' new Contrarotator washing machine has won the Homes & Gardens V&A Classic Design Readers Award. more...
THE annual Bath MBA prize has been won by Nick Cook, for his report on the role of finance on high technology small firms. more...
NISSAN owners and potential customers in the Swindon area are being directed to another dealer following the closure of Westmead Nissan at Westlea. more...
THIS is the first look inside Swindon's new JD Wetherspoon pub transformed from an old carpet shop. more...
MORE than 60 houses could be built on two Highworth fields, angering protesters who were told the figure would be less than 50. more...
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ASHTON Keynes AC's new membership starts on March 15 and will end on June 15, 2002, giving members this season a 15-month membership. more...
Friday, March 23: Ivy House Lakes Veterans' Open. more...
WILTS LEAGUE: Stratton Crosslink returned to form with a vengeance beating Wroughton 7-1 on their own ground thanks mainly to a one man demolition job from Rick Casey. more...
Minors League: In the under 12s Shaw closed the gap on the leaders with a fine 6-2 win over Westlea, the Shaw goals coming from McHallen, Lelloit and Titchem with a hat-trick. Gooden and O'Hagan replied for Westlea. more...
District League: In the Under 15 Division Lee Mallison scored eight for the second time this season for Swindon Vultures. more...
Sunday League: The Moonies beat AFC Gas 7-2 in Division One. Paul Parsons helped himself to four goals and Richie Martin grabbed a hat-trick for the Moonrakers. New Century WMC beat The Globe 4-2. Sean Terry bagged a brace Chris O'Connell and Craig Heaney claimed one each for NCWMC. Duncan Adams and Ryan Lovegrove replied for The Globe. more...
WOOTTON BASSETT 15, WIMBORNE 0: Bassett produced their best forward display of the season, and the backs displayed excellent running in tricky conditions. more...
SMITHS (INDUSTRIES) VETS 5, MINETY 2ND XV 7: Minety seconds came from behind to win at Cheltenham, but it was a victory bought at a high price. more...
Swindon's home match against Chipping Norton was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch. more...
ANDY King believes super striker Michael Reddy could be the saving grace of Swindon Town. more...
A DELIGHTED Andy King said his side had served up a tremendous display at Layer Road. more...
MICHAEL Reddy is not getting carried away with life despite the impact he has made in such a short space of time at the County Ground. more...
Today's (March 21) home reserve fixture against Bristol City has been cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch. more...
COLCHESTER 0, SWINDON 1: Michael Reddy proved too hot for Colchester to handle as Town notched their sixth away win of the season at Layer Road. more...
MAY I reply to the mayor's letter printed on Friday, March 16. more...
May I, through your pages, thank the Mayor of Swindon for his very amusing contribution to Red Nose Day last Friday, which you printed for us all to enjoy. more...
THE stance taken by Jean Saunders on road building (Letters, EA, March 13, The solution is not to build more roads) is as perplexing as it is illogical. more...
I WOULD like to take this opportunity to respond to some points about Steam in Mr Morgan's letter of March 8. more...
WHEN Sylvia Woodgate's 18-year-old son suffered serious head injuries in a road accident, she was inspired to set up a lifeline for victims with similar injuries. more...
The Swindon Branch of Headway, founded in 1989, is based at Headway House in Victoria Hospital. more...
TWO men have denied assaulting a nightclubber with the intention of robbing him. more...
WORKERS from Nationwide Building Society presented £2,000 to Princess Margaret Hospital's special-care baby unit after staff saved the life of their colleague's child. more...
A man carrying a handbag in the women's toilets in Swindon's Brunel Centre struck the female assistant as being rather suspicious. more...
The lilting tones of Irish tenor Dennis O'Neill will ring out at this year's Classical Spectac-ular at the Wiltshire Festival. more...
FUNERAL pyres were ready to be lit on the Ridgeway last night for over 1,000 healthy animals slaughtered because of foot and mouth disease. more...
CROP Circle spotters say the current countryside crisis will hamper their efforts to study new formations this summer. more...
A NEW generation of comic talent took to the stage at a town centre pub. more...
A SWINDON packing factory is preparing to close, with dozens of job losses. more...
BILL and Irene Bown met on the top deck of a Stroud bus in 1948. This weekend they will celebrate their Golden wedding anniversary at their home at Poets Estate in Wootton Bassett, where they have lived for the past 20 years. more...
SCHOOLCHILDREN from across Wiltshire will attempt to prove just how streetwise they are when they compete for the title of Young Consumer of the Year. more...
MORE than 60 houses could be built on two Highworth fields, angering protesters who were told the figure would be less than 50. more...
TWO heart attacks and a bypass operation could not stop ex-police officer Tony McKay being recognised as an outstanding student on a New College fitness instructor course. more...
MORE firefighters in Wiltshire are being injured in their work, new figures reveal. more...
IT is less than six inches long but the great crested newt could be the nail in the coffin of the £200 million Front Garden project. more...
AN extraordinary plan to move the Millennium Dome from Greenwich to Wroughton is being considered by the Government, according to reports. more...
AN illegal car `cruise' rally is due to come to Swindon next month. more...
GRITTING lorries worked throughout the night as Swindon and the surrounding area were hit by heavy snow and sleet. more...
PARENTS have pledged to fight for the life of their children's school for the second time in as many years. more...
TWO conmen tricked their way into an 87-year-old man's house before escaping with cash. more...
THE head of the Catholic Church in Swindon refused to go with the majority on the vote over a sex education strategy which includes the possible handing out of condoms to children in schools. more...
WROUGHTON school's performance of Jesus Christ Superstar is to have a seventies flavour. more...
MEET Jay Cunningham the national voice for every teenager in Swindon and Wiltshire. more...
AT just 17 Jay Cunningham of Wootton Bassett clearly has well-informed views on many of today's important issues and she's prepared to stand up for what she believes. more...
AFTER all the objections, public debate and campaigning, it would be ironic if a small amphibian put a stop to the planned development of the Front Garden. more...
AN extraordinary plan to move the Millennium Dome from Greenwich to Wroughton is being considered by the Government, according to reports. more...
ANDY King believes super striker Michael Reddy could be the saving grace of Swindon Town. more...
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