IFFY Onuora's chilling message to rivals who had Town dismissed as 'dead in the water' is simple 'we're breathing down your necks and ready to strike'. Goals from Neale McDermott and Rory Fallon secured a 2-1 win over Bristol City at the County Ground
Darren ElliottA POPULAR 23-year-old has died in hospital less than three months after he was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer. Football fan Darren Elliott, of Riverside Drive, Melksham, was told by doctors in August he had developed nasopharyngeal
AN epileptic man has paid tribute to the charity group that helped him back to work by making a fundraising calendar. Robert King, 47, from Gorse Hill, first contacted Working For Opportun-ities in 2004 after his epilepsy left him struggling to find suitable
SWINDON Town's vice chairman Mark Devlin has warned the club is finished if the County Ground is not spruced up soon. Mr Devlin is angry that bold plans for the redevelopment of the ground have not been released, which would trigger a public consultation
'He is lovely' Carling the cat who was found with a piece of glass in his head. Ref: 100179-51MEET Carling, the one-year-old cat named after the country's best selling lager. But the name is not because the little moggy developed an early taste for beer
Ken Bowen, who was in the Royal Navy, at the millennium clock during the two minute silence Refs: 100174-75THEY may not have built their own bridge over the River Kwai but pupils from Swindon schools impressed a group of war veterans with their exhibition
Christine Pratt who has set up her own firm after she was bullied at work. Ref: 100180-58CHRISTINE Pratt knows only too well the pain that bullying can cause. For two and a half years she was belittled and humiliated by a manager. And the experience moved
I COULDN'T agree more with M Hooper regarding his concern for pets and other animals now that firework night lasts longer and longer. As kids, we were happy to let off our fireworks on bonfire night and that was it. Now the bangs and whizzes from crackers
IT is interesting to read Saira Khan's letter (SA November 8) regarding the success of the Wiltshire Safety Camera Partnership's in reducing accidents on the M4. She states that there has been a dramatic drop of 46.75 per cent in collisions. 46.75 per
IF Nick Martin is really interested in the people 'least well off' then the council should tell Liberata that they do not want jobs transferred out of the town. In the privatisation frenzy we have suffered over the last 20 years we have seen plenty of
"There's no mistaking first festive tune of the year" (Letters, Nov 10). I hate to disagree with Nicholas Gough (since apart from anything else at this time of year we Nicholases should stick together), but we did investigate his allegation that we were
I HAVE requested Arthur Tayler to write to you on behalf of all the mammals and birds and insects and most of all, the land we have lived on at our home around Coate Water. Not long ago the wildlife of Britain was much more plentiful and varied than it
JON Lewis has double promotion in his sights after being named as Gloucestershire's new captain. He wants to lead his county back into the top flight of English cricket while also making the breakthrough on to the international stage. The former Churchfields
SALISBURY City's newest recruit Alex Haddow is certainly a well-travelled young man, but he is more than happy to be laying down roots by committing his immediate future to the Whites. The exciting 23-year-old left-sided midfielder has quickly become
THE owners of a missing ginger tabby cat have launched an appeal to find their missing moggie. Baggins has been missing from his home for four weeks and his owners are becoming increasingly concerned. He likes to wander the streets but his owner Helen
SWINDON-based train company First Great Western has rededicated one of its High Speed Trains 'The National Trust'. The rededication marks the charity's move to a new central office on the site of Brunel's Great Western Railway Works in Swindon earlier
A SPECIALLY commissioned sculpture is being unveiled in Wroughton next week. The sculpture has been made to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Prospect Hospice. It will be officially unveiled by Ann, Duchess of Norfolk, founder of Help for Hospices
THE critics of Coun Thompson's letter (Nov 8) are surely missing the point. It was obviously meant as a spoof; satire in the good old tradition of Defoe and Swift. By today's standards, the letter was perhaps a bit over the top. No, the letter, though
STORES/restaurants etc are all too happy to make profits out of the community especially at Christmas. Happy to take the profits, but what do they put back into the community? What about the exterior of the businesses increase in litter, chewing gum etc
