Wiltshire | Archive | 2001 | March
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Shares in Britain's largest coal producer RJB Mining will be in the spotlight today when it reports its annual results a week after saying goodbye to founder Richard Budge. more...
THE man who was the driving force behind Honda's spectacular growth in Europe over the past decade, Toshio Ishino, has died suddenly while on a visit to Tokyo. He was 57. more...
Demand for skilled workers could spell the end of the office junior, according to a new survey. more...
Media group Carlton Communications says TV advertising revenues will remain subdued for at least another four months. more...
Workers are winning higher pay deals than last year, with half of recent settlements worth 3.5 per cent or more, according to a new report today. more...
Swindon & District League: Nalgo and Swindon Asians, two of the teams that are still challenging for Division One honours, were involved in a thriller. more...
Sunday League: AFC Wroughton demolished Wheatsheaf 10-1 in Division One. Jamie Webb and Neil Matthews both scored four, Richard Gee and Jonathan Davis getting the others. more...
Wilts League: Top match in the Wiltshire League was at Trowbridge where the home side took on Cricklade Town in the third round of the league's Addkey Senior Cup. more...
CLEVEDON TOWN 3, SWINDON TOWN 1: Swindon Town Ladies crashed to their first away defeat in the South West Combination League. more...
CIRENCESTER TOWN 3, BROMSGROVE ROVERS 1: On a heavy pitch which was only declared fit an hour before kickoff, Cirencester's determination saw them through to gain maximum points, to add to their recent run of games without defeat. more...
IN the Swindon & District Under 11s A League, for the second time within a month the first and second-placed teams, Lydiard and Westbrook, played each other. Just before half time Andy Grier gave Westbrook the lead with two goals. As the second half started Marc Wood scored two goals within two minutes, and Rob Dean finishing the scoring with two more, giving Westbrook a 6-0 victory. more...
ANDY King is expected to add Nottingham Forest's Andy Gray to his squad for tonight's (Tuesday, March 6) crucial clash with Oldham Athletic. more...
KEY players face a race against time to be fit for tonight's (Tuesday, March 6) home clash with Oldham. more...
SWINDON Town chief executive Pete Rowe has joined FIFA president Sepp Blatter in provisionally welcoming an agreement on a new transfer system. more...
ANTOINE Van Der Linden believes victory over Oldham Athletic will provide one of the six wins needed to secure survival. more...
OLDHAM Athletic became the first victims of a John Beck-led Cambridge United on Saturday. more...
TOWN'S Australian speed merchant is looking to continuing his footballing recovery with a goal this evening. more...
Swindon Town moved out of the relegation zone this evening (Tues 6th March) after a 3 - 0 home win against Oldham Athletic. more...
THE Evening Advertiser has just published an article about the coming of the Wal-Mart supermarket which fills me with horror. more...
WHAT annoyed me most about this year's Brit Awards wasn't the usual lack of originality and song writing talent (excluding Cold Play) or the recycled jokes or even the fact that nobody seems to have noticed that U2 have ripped their latest sounds from eighties band A-Ha. more...
COUN Sue Bates is incorrect when she suggests that the Conservative view is that paying off a substantial amount of the pension fund deficit from the council's capital resources is justified because the funds can be made good from the Front Garden sale (Evening Advertiser, Feb 28). more...
ONE of the five pledges made by the Labour Party at the last general election was that no child in an infant class should be in a class of over 30. more...
proAN evening of fun at a sheltered housing complex raised £270 for the Prospect Hospice. more...
WOOTTON Bassett School has a new head teacher the current head of a nearby secondary school. more...
THREE more chess teams from Swindon schools qualified for the semi-finals of the National Primary Schools championships at the weekend giving the town a hundred per cent record in this year's competition. more...
MORE than a hundred young dancers took up roles for the Nutcracker ballet after a casting session at Swindon's Hreod Parkway School. more...
IT'S a far cry from EastEnders, Coronation Street and the Wyvern panto and it certainly isn't a succession of laughs. more...
TROUBLED bus company Stagecoach has been praised by traffic commissioner Philip Brown for admitting its shortcomings and for its determination to put things right. more...
ALMOST 200 people went through the doors of Trax gym during its first open weekend. more...
KEITH Fletcher boxed clever when he took part in a competition at the Evening Advertiser's job fair and won himself a TV. more...
MICHAEL Wills, MP for North Swindon, today promised improvements in standards of care for older people living in care homes in North Swindon. more...
A SPORTS club for Swindon youngsters with disabilities is going from strength to strength. more...
A COUPLE were left stranded on their way to Swindon's Coate Water Park after their car and caravan was stolen. more...
NORTH Swindon MP Michael Wills has pledged that more money will be given to Swindon's Princess Margaret Hospital to improve coronary care. more...
SWINDON'S best-known modern buildings are the focus of a photographic exhibition which has opened at the Designer Outlet Shopping Village. more...
A RANGE of activities is being organised by the Swindon Women's Coalition to mark International Women's Day. more...
WILTSHIRE Police are today launching an ambitious campaign to recruit 101 special constables by the end of 2001. more...
STAFF from Swindon's Carfax Street walk-in health centre will be on hand to offer diabetics the chance to check that their blood glucose metre is working correctly. more...
A PLANNED £10 million heritage centre supported by Swindon Council has lost one of its top backers. more...
COUNCIL tenants have signed a partnership deal of a kind never before seen in Swindon. more...
A NEW unit of the Air Training Corps has been formed in Cricklade. more...
TEACHERS at secondary schools in Swindon could become the first in the South West to take industrial action over staff shortages. more...
RESIDENTS came face to face with decision makers in the town to try to find ways of reducing sex attacks in Faringdon Road Park. more...
TWO teenagers tricked people into giving them money by pretending to be collecting donations to help victims of the Indian earthquake. more...
A WOMAN who was pulled from the first floor of a burning building has thanked firefighters and vigilant neighbours for saving her life. more...
POLICE have issued a description of a man driving a silver car whom they believe sexually assaulted an 18-year-old Swindon woman at knifepoint. more...
ONE of the victims of the Selby rail crash was travelling to Swindon on a business trip when the accident happened. more...
A report claiming that children living near electricity pylons face an increased leukaemia risk was being keenly awaited in Swindon today. more...
ANOTHER Wiltshire farm was waiting to see if foot and mouth would be confirmed as farmer Helen Browning was set to find out if her farm was to be given the all-clear today. more...
WHETHER your passion is bowls or ballooning, croquet or cricket, sports fans all over Swindon are being asked to dedicate one event this year to raising funds for the Prospect Hospice. more...
HOWEVER remote the chance of children developing leukaemia from the proximity of electricity pylons, it was to say the least insensitive of planners to site Catherine Wayte Primary School close to high voltage cables. more...
PEOPLE who live near Faringdon Road Park have every right to be worried because apparently little is being done to make the place safer. more...
WILTSHIRE Police are today launching an ambitious campaign to recruit 101 special constables by the end of 2001. more...
Swindon Town moved out of the relegation zone this evening (Tues 6th March) after a 3 - 0 home win against Oldham Athletic. more...
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