Wiltshire | Archive | 2004 | March
Stonehenge School has gained full marks following a recent Ofsted inspection. more...
ECO-FRIENDLY householders in Amesbury have even more reason to recycle their rubbish from this week. more...
MAKING a Wallace & Gromit-style cartoon, and creating a permanent piece of artwork or a roller-skating disco are just some of the activities on offer at Amesbury sports centre during the Easter break. more...
A SALISBURY driver caught on-camera speeding through the Solstice Park roadworks on the A303 near Amesbury has set up a website for fellow victims, with a view to challenging the legality of the speed restrictions. more...
PROTEST group the Stonehenge Alliance has made an impassioned case against the plans for a dual carriageway and 2.1km tunnel through the World Heritage site, branding it "short sighted" and "short-lived". more...
THE Salisbury father of an army major involved in a sexual discrimination case said he was relieved with the outcome of an employment tribunal that found his son did not force a junior colleague into an affair. more...
THE John Lewis Partnership, whose Waitrose division has supermarkets in Salisbury and Ringwood, has announced its results for the year ended January 31, 2004. more...
TRETHOWANS, one of Salisbury's oldest legal firms, has launched its new identity to coincide with the start of the new financial year. more...
FINAL year Salisbury College students, on the IT practitioner national course, have helped businesses by undertaking a variety of projects to create business information systems. more...
HOUSEBUILDER Persimmon Plc has announced record results for the financial year to December 31, 2003. more...
AMBASSADORS, the Salisbury business networking club, welcomed Diane Williams from A Balancing Cat to one of its March meetings. more...
SWINDON Chamber of Commerce is now seeking sponsorship from outside companies to ensure events go with a bang. more...
A WANBOROUGH firm has scooped gold in a national awards ceremony. more...
The GWR Group, which broadcasts to Swindon and the West Country, has announced that it expects analogue revenues to be up by eight per cent year on year at the end of this month. more...
Pictured with members of the South Wilts Fibromyalgia Society is librarian Patricia Willshire (centre) who A WOMAN who has battled against a debilitating illness that forced her to give up a high-flying career has co-written a self-help manual to help other sufferers get back on their feet. more...
A WOMAN who has battled against a debilitating illness that forced her to give up a high-flying career has co-written a self-help manual to help other sufferers get back on their feet. more...
IF you fancy getting on your bike with the kids in the New Forest, try Country Lanes Cycle Centre, next to Brockenhurst station. more...
HAVE you signed up yet? Salisbury's Race For Life in aid of Cancer Research UK takes place on July 4 this year. more...
Mervyn Smith holds a picture of his wife Christine and six-week-old son Andrew.SALISBURY parents who discovered their dead babies' organs were taken without their permission say a High Court ruling means they have "won the battle but not the war". more...
The fire-damaged bedroom at the Detain family home in Roman Road, SalisburyA BRAVE Salisbury teenager helped save the lives of her entire family after staying up late to finish her homework. more...
A SALISBURY driver caught on-camera speeding through the Solstice Park roadworks on the A303 near Amesbury has set up a website for fellow victims, with a view to challenging the legality of the speed restrictions. more...
Ray Dowd, interim principal of Salisbury CollegeTROUBLESHOOTER Ray Dowd has taken the helm at struggling Salisbury College. more...
PROTEST group the Stonehenge Alliance has made an impassioned case against the plans for a dual carriageway and 2.1km tunnel through the World Heritage site, branding it "short sighted" and "short-lived". more...
THE Salisbury father of an army major involved in a sexual discrimination case said he was relieved with the outcome of an employment tribunal that found his son did not force a junior colleague into an affair. more...
Students from the Royal College of Music are filmmed at Wilton House for Mozart programme.THE music of Mozart is being brought to life with a new Channel Four programme filmed at Wilton House this week. more...
USERS of Salisbury's Five Rivers leisure centre should find it cleaner and problems should be resolved quicker, after Salisbury district council takes it over tomorrow. more...
AN embroidered 17th century casket carrying an estimate of £30,000 to £50,000 will be the highlight of a sale of antique rugs and textiles at Netherhampton Salerooms in Salisbury later this month. more...
A GOVERNMENT inspector has given permission for the development of a new housing estate on the fringes of the city centre, in spite of the opposition of Salisbury district council, which condemned the design as cramped and ugly. more...
A SALISBURY Guide unit is facing closure because of the lack of adult supervisors. more...
SALISBURY Rugby Club have just two games remaining to ensure they escape relegation from South West Two (East) of the Powergen League. more...
THE John Lewis Partnership, whose Waitrose division has supermarkets in Salisbury and Ringwood, has announced its results for the year ended January 31, 2004. more...
TRETHOWANS, one of Salisbury's oldest legal firms, has launched its new identity to coincide with the start of the new financial year. more...
FINAL year Salisbury College students, on the IT practitioner national course, have helped businesses by undertaking a variety of projects to create business information systems. more...
HOUSEBUILDER Persimmon Plc has announced record results for the financial year to December 31, 2003. more...
AMBASSADORS, the Salisbury business networking club, welcomed Diane Williams from A Balancing Cat to one of its March meetings. more...
A young Town reserve side gave a good account of themselves before going down 2-1 at home to a more experienced Cardiff City team. more...
There's a once-in-a-lifetime Rugby World Cup treat in store for hundreds of Cirencester youngsters when the Rugby World Cup comes to town on St George's Day. more...
IS the youth of today a new breed? Are they different in some way from any of the former generations? I will answer the above questions just in case you struggle; the answer is no. They are identical, they are just as brave as the previous generations and just as bored. more...
CAN we take it, after digesting the recent coverage relating to the council's parking provision for its employees that the so- called green strategy in the form of purposeful limitation of car parking spaces designed to encourage the use of public transport and cycling, is only meant to apply to hospital staff and visitors but not members of the council? more...
I AM writing to thank your readers who have donated blood or bone marrow to the National Blood Service (NBS) over the past year for their support and to persuade others to become donors as well. more...
THERE have been many protestors expressing their concerns at the building of a much needed and overdue university in Swindon (at Coate). more...
I HAVE just received my council tax bill for 2004/5 which states that the increase on last year's is eight per cent yet the council stated that the increase of 7.3 per cent was passed at their committee meeting. more...
The recent letters from Topping and Smith seem to have drifted from the main subject which was the comparison of our troops to suicide bombers. more...
I AM proud that the Liberal Democrats are the first political party in the UK to address the issue of medically assisted dying for the terminally ill at their recent spring conference in Southport. more...
WHO the hell does A C Carter of Bouverie Avenue, Old Town, Swindon, think he is to criticise Mr Frank Avenell for trying everything that he can do not only for pensioners but also for low earners, to get a better and realistic rate of council tax payments which should not be above the rate of inflation. more...
I THINK A E Burdett was being very unfair in his letter, EA March 18. Frank Avenell (I presume he was referring to him, why did he not name him?) never claimed to speak for us. more...
AN American bomber pilot has written to the Advertiser to share his feelings during the Iraq War. Captain Matthew Calhoun, a B-52 bomber Aircraft Commander was sent RAF Fairford in March last year to provide air support to the ground forces attacking Iraqi troop positions more...
Ref. 29749-11MICHELLE Gillard and her four-year-old daughter arrived home from a dream holiday in Disneyland to find their front door had been kicked in by the police. more...
Ref. 29748-39Eldene residents have been left in the dark over the removal of two lampposts from outside their house. more...
WILTSHIRE Constabulary will be one of the first forces in the country to employ new local investigation officers in the latest effort to free up police time. more...
THE Swindon Women's Branch of the Workers' Education Association has unveiled its summer programme of courses. more...
FAMILIES on low incomes across Swindon will soon be able to buy cheap electrical goods thanks to an injection of Lottery money that will fund the Refurbiz project. more...
THE Swindon Parent Partner-ship is looking to recruit people to help children with special educational needs. more...
Time is gradually running out for a group of old Swindon soldiers who bravely fought in the Far East during the Second World War. more...
Ref. 29736-7Cycling the 1,000 miles from one end of Great Britain to the other is no mean feat, but Paul Scott and Matt Tilling are preparing with gusto. more...
Ref. 29418-02Bride Of The Year Louisa Curtis and her fiancé Michael Nestor were spoilt for choice when deciding on their wedding rings. more...
Drivers who use the M4 have been invited to comment on how to improve the motorway. more...
Ref. 29761-75WROUGHTON library will be closed for several days after an attack by vandals . more...
Ref. 29742-55CHILDREN at a Swindon school had a useful lesson in saving as they collected £614.25 all in 5p pieces to buy new play equipment. more...
VILLAGERS are to turn out in force this week to mark end of their local library. more...
FITNESS fans put their best foot forward in a walkathon to raise money for four-year-old cerebral palsy sufferer Brandon Humphries. more...
Ref. 24275-03MONEY raised from this year's Marriott Charity Ball will improve the lives of many of the town's young that's the message from one charity set to benefit. more...
Ref. 29754-44It might not be the longest, but the River Thames is certainly one of the most famous rivers in the world. A new book celebrates that fact. BARRIE HUDSON leafs through its pages more...
Ref. 229764-09As predicted by the Evening Advertiser earlier this month, Pinetrees and Lease Hill homes are to be closed by Swindon council more...
POLICE are hunting a man after a 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted as she sat in a park. more...
THE managing director of a Swindon brewery will become the next High Sheriff of Wiltshire at a ceremony in the town tomorrow. more...
Ref. 29751-93TRAINS, trucks and automobiles are causing misery for the occupants of what could be Britain's noisiest home. more...
A VISION of Wootton Bassett 20 years from now as a town with its own distinct identity and a vibrant economy goes before district councillors next week. more...
Ref. 29753-17Football-mad Even Swindon Junior School has won a special award for its dedication to the beautiful game. more...
Computers and modern technology are being used increasingly by crooks to carry out crimes around the world. But the crimefighters whose job it is to detect them are also finding this equipment useful in their work. ANTHONY OSBORNE met one man, a former hacker, whose knowledge of computers is being passed on to those hunting criminals in cyberspace more...
Among the cases requiring Neil's expertise was that of Susan Kent in Medway, Kent, in 1999. more...
Ref. 8693-02Inspector Paul Ginger is the head of Wiltshire Police's Hi-Tech Crime Unit based in Devizes. more...
Will it be thanks from Frank Avenell, Swindon's self-proclaimed Pensioners' Champion, after the 2004 Budget announcement? more...
RE the letter from G Scott (EA March 24). We had our water independently analysed and of course they told us how hard the water was and how they could improve the taste. The same company could put all that right at considerable cost. We did not bother. more...
AN American bomber pilot has written to the Advertiser to share his feelings during the Iraq War. Captain Matthew Calhoun, a B-52 bomber Aircraft Commander was sent RAF Fairford in March last year to provide air support to the ground forces attacking Iraqi troop positions more...
Rory Fallon would enjoy regular first-team football at almost any other club in Division Two but manager Andy King is brimming with praise for the striker's willingness to `wait his turn' at the County Ground. more...
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