Wiltshire | Archive | 2001 | April
Motorola bosses in America are refusing to comment on reports that it is considering closing its huge Bathgate plant in West Lothian, Scotland, with the loss of 3,200 jobs. more...
Following a call in last month's edition of the Evening Advertiser's Business supplement for local firms to join in promoting Swindon's image through the arts, Swindon solicitors Thring Townsend has offered to give free legal advice to the Swindon Arts Community Fund. more...
Employees at DHL Swindon are celebrating after the company was presented with the People Development Award at the International Freighting Weekly annual awards dinner in London. more...
PARENTS and pupils from Westrop Primary School, Highworth, took part in a six-a-side football tournament to raise money for the school. more...
Pig farmer John Thompson. It is heartbreaking to see them dying in the way that some of them are. more...
Stonehenge re-opened this week as part of the Government's plan to bring tourists back to Britain. more...
Lower Moor Trout Fishery has had a great opening week to their season in spite of the weather, writes Godfrey Hargreaves. more...
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PARENTS and pupils from Westrop Primary School, Highworth, took part in a six-a-side football tournament to raise money for the school. more...
TETBURY 7, MINETY 15: Three tries and a greatly improved performance saw Minety through to victory in this friendly. more...
IT was another blank weekend for the top teams in the Swindon area, with both Swindon's league game and Wootton Bassett's Wilts and Dorset Cup quarter-final tie against Swanage being called off. more...
Another high scoring game at South Marston saw score seven tries to Grove's four. more...
CENTRAL defender Matt Heywood has been hailed as a major factor in the transformation of Swindon Town's fortunes. more...
ANDY KING was delighted his players had put on a `top drawer' performance after emerging victorious from a match they could not afford to lose. more...
ALAN Reeves was `more than happy' with his colleagues after the 1-0 win at Griffin Park. more...
HOW appropriate that Town grabbed a vital survival lifeline at a ground which boasted the slogan `we've got the balls'. more...
Town clinched all three points after a battling performance on Tuesday, April 10, at Griffin Park. more...
I was at the original Area Panel South meeting some months ago, when the question of closure of Mill Lane was first discussed. more...
IN his interesting column "Education Matters" (Evening Advertiser, April 3), Richard Churm said it costs £6,000 to exclude a pupil from a school that is not failing and £3,000 to exclude a pupil from a school that has been put into "special measures". more...
CAN I reassure Sandra Gibson (Letters, April 5) that I am in complete control of my short, medium- and long-term memory so she can rest assured that I do not suffer fools gladly. more...
It is now apparent that, in January, Agriculture Minister Nick Brown was encouraging farmers to insure themselves against possible outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (The Times, January 8). more...
AS we are all aware, we are to have a general election very soon. People will be thinking about important issues such as tax, the health service and so on. Please could I ask you and your readers to also think about another tremendously important issue this country's children. more...
Evening Advertiser readers should not be surprised to read of the problems experienced by residents of Cleveland Close (EA, April 4). Illegal and anti-social parking has become normal in Swindon aided and abetted by a policy of non-intervention by police, who have abdicated their responsibility to uphold the law, other than when they consider it appropriate. Car owners now abandon their cars wherever they choose. more...
CUTS in services at a transport charity have meant a group of disabled people are no longer guaranteed transport to their swimming sessions. more...
OLYMPIC medallist Andrew Bennie has been saved from eviction from his mobile home near Wootton Bassett. more...
GIFTY Tawiah and her husband-to-be Stephen Griffiths have decided to sacrifice their presents when they get married next month. more...
PLANS for a new 60-bed unit to be built at the site of the new Great Western Hospital have been passed by planners. more...
ANGLERS took decisive action to clean up Plaum's Pit in Cheney Manor, Swindon. more...
A DISGRUNTLED curry house customer who threatened a takeaway boss with a Gurkha knife and sprayed him in the face with ammonia has been jailed for four years. more...
A FRONT garden display featuring Snow White and the seven dwarfs is helping to raise money for farmers trying to cope with the effects of foot and mouth disease. more...
AT least 1,200 pensioners in Swindon are currently not claiming income support to which they are entitled, according to Age Concern. more...
BRITISH Gas is sending a team of energy advisers into Swindon to tell shoppers about savings on electricity. more...
FAMILY, friends and former patients of Dr Rod Houseman gathered to pay their last respects to a man who dedicated his life to the care of others. more...
THIS is the first picture of sex attacker Daniel Neill, who carried out the terrifying kidnap and rape of an 18-year-old girl in Swindon. more...
COUNCIL officers say tax-payers will be robbed of £40 million if land on the Front Garden is sold to Swindon Town Football Club for a new stadium. more...
A FREAK jet of water wrecked a car as it drove through Aldbourne smashing the bumper, blowing away the rear suspension springs and briefly lifting it from the road. more...
UNION leaders from Swindon are using the case of Churchfields School to call for the Government to scrap its policy of fining schools for excluding pupils. more...
HONDA is struggling to recruit skilled engineers for its latest expansion. more...
DIANA Ingram is planning a double celebration after winning £32,000 on the television quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? because her brother won an identical amount just four months ago. more...
A World War Two hand grenade has been found in a garden shed. more...
THE pain of losing a child will never leave Raymond and Sandra Shirley. more...
AN inspirational teacher can alter the course of a child's life. For impressionable youngsters embarking on their education, their guiding force can make or break their school careers. more...
WE have been hearing a great deal recently about the problems encountered by teachers. Until today, however, we have heard little about the work which is done in primary classrooms by school support assistants. more...
HAVING one's car wrecked by a water spout sounds like a big joke. But for 72-year-old Alan Chamberlain, it certainly wasn't funny. more...
DIANA Ingram is planning a double celebration after winning £32,000 on the television quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - because her brother won an identical amount just four months ago. more...
CENTRAL defender Matt Heywood has been hailed as a major factor in the transformation of Swindon Town's fortunes. more...
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