Stories for 8 January 2005

Highworth News

No homes here say residents

RESIDENTS are objecting to plans to build 24 homes on the former Co-op site in Highworth. They say the development will overlook their homes and be out of character with the area around the Cherry Orchard site.   more...

Sport Bowls

A dramatic exit!

WESTLECOT Ladies were pipped at the post in a tense and dramatic national inter-club championship match that went right down to the wire.   more...

Swindon News

Don't destroy all our values

I AM totally disgusted with the dismemberment of my old regiment. It seems that the Government is determined to destroy all the values that we stood for.   more...

An amazing aid effort

74402-73THE MASSIVE relief operation based in Wroughton is still receiving a huge number of donations.   more...

Labour is suffering amnesia

I SEE that Mr Benfield is suffering from the Labour complaint, amnesia (you forget my nanny application and you will still get a knighthood in the Honours List).   more...

I see the rats

IN response to your article on January 3, about the rat population in Swindon, I would disagree with what Gavin Calthrop (spokesman for Swindon Council) says.   more...

Can you help?

I WONDER is any of your readers know the whereabouts of a person who was living in Cedars Close in the mid 1950s.   more...

Still short life

G SCOTT's view (Letters Jan 3) that organic is best for animals, is only correct up to a point.   more...

We need a bus

I WAS just wondering if any one can tell me why the bus company in Swindon thinks that nobody goes to the hospital after 10pm?   more...

MP backs bid to encourage more recycling

74475-06SOUTH Swindon MP Julia Drown has helped to promote a supermarket's environmentally-friendly scheme.   more...

Drink-driver's two-year ban

A 20-YEAR-OLD motorist who ploughed over a central reservation while more than twice over the drink-drive limit has been banned from the road for two years ­ despite claims that his drink could have been spiked.   more...

`We don't want a bar or bookies here'

THE NUMBER of bars in Swindon town centre will again come under the spotlight next week. Councillors are being advised to reject an application which could see another bar open on Bridge Street.   more...

Slimmers chat to top TV chef

A CELEBRITY chef put a smile on the face of two slimming consultants. Sharon Painter and Kathryn Applegate enjoyed a cuddle with Ainsley Harriot at Slimming World's annual awards ceremony.   more...

Meet the police

THE next police surgery in the Parks area will be held on February 3. Community beat bobbies WPC Andy Rhodes and WPC Fay Weedon will be joined by anti-social behaviour officer Ian Napier.   more...

Take chance to learn skill

FAST-TRACK Arabic, talking about books and an introduction to the Baha'i faith are just some of the courses on offer as part of Swindon College's new part-time programme.   more...

Irish dance for Lourdes

A FUNDRAISING dance is to be held at the Thistle Hotel in Fleming Way, Swindon to raise money so that disabled youngsters can be taken to Lourdes at Easter time.   more...

Additional meeting on council tax

SWINDON Council has announced an extra public meeting about council tax. Less than a dozen members of the public attended the first meeting on Tuesday, to the disappointment of council leader Coun Mike Bawden.   more...

RSPCA shop wants help

THE RSPCA's North Wiltshire branch is making a plea for volunteers to help runs its Swindon shop.   more...

Funding lifeline is offered by church

PEOPLE working on community projects in Swindon are being encouraged to apply for church funding.   more...

Deb's cutting edge offer to boost appeal

74490-19A Swindon hairdresser is celebrating 30 years in the business by donating a day's takings to the tsunami appeal.   more...

Tsunami could have killed 440 Britons

The official toll of Britons dead or missing in the Asian tsunami disaster has more than doubled to 440.   more...

Girl pays a poetic tribute

74486-20FIFTEEN-year-old Kelly Morshead, from Broad Hinton, has been helping out with the relief effort being organised at Wroughton Airfield.   more...

`I'm fed up with constant crime'

74476-21A TRADER who has been the victim of five thefts in just over two years is furious with what he claims is a lack of action by police.   more...

Making our voice heard

74477-17SWINDON schools will have a voice in the corridors of power now that a local head teacher has been elected to a top committee.   more...

Wiltshire News

Wheel of fortune

Rotary International is about to celebrate its centenary but there is far more to this organisation than a group of men in suits who do their bit for the community. NIGEL KERTON found out what Rotary is really all about   more...

Wiltshire Sport

Forget about the cup...

DAVID DUKE is not interested in crying over FA Cup spilt milk however refreshing a clash with mighty Middlesbrough would have been today.   more...

Wootton Bassett News

Yobs scratch word on car

VANDALS left their mark on a car in Wootton Bassett. The offenders scratched an offensive word on the passenger side door of a blue Toyota Lucida Estima in Fairfield on during Monday night.   more...