40ies fashion at STEAM.
Swindon’s New College showed off some 1940ies fashion on the Platform at Steam Museum. Gallery of Images:
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Swindon’s Jahméne launches new album in Swindon.
Former X Factor star Jahméne Douglas launches his latest album ‘Unfathomable Phantasmagoria’ at the Asda store in North Swindon where he used to work. Signing autographs and meeting some of the ladies he used to work with before he hit the big time on X Factor. Mum Mandy Thomas was in the queue to get
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Christmas horror show unfolds in Oxford.
As the pantomime season approaches we see loads of production launches. This week we have had the Wyvern Theatre launch Cinderella with Ryan Thomas and I have just put my passport away from a trip over the frontier to Oxford, for the launch of the New Theatre’s Christmas production of the classic Rocky Horror Show.
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Emotional Jazz returns to Tigersharks.
Emotional double Olympic silver medalist Jazz Carling returned to the Link Centre pool where her swimming career started, and was met by a guard of honour as the latest Tigersharks lined the way to the pool, and applauded as she arrived. She showed off her medals to the young swimmers before giving a series of
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Lancers return to exercise out of Fairford
The mighty United States Air Force B1 (Lancer) bombers made a noisy return to the West Country as a staging post for exercises over the Czech Republic. The NATO exercise is to get crews from different countries working together in a battlefield scenario, and involves a five hour round trip from the long Fairford runway.
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Lower Shaw Farm Veggie book launch.
Josephine Ashby who looks after the cooking at Lower Shaw Farm has put her recipes into print through Swindon based National Trust. At a book launch National Trust publisher Katie Bond said that she had made a habit of making Lower Shaw Farm her base when staying in Swindon and had experienced Josie’s cooking. It
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Old Town Food Fayre?
More of a food fayre than an ale and sausage trail. Foodies gathered in their hundreds to sample food from around the world at this years Old Town Ale and Sausage Trail. There were sausages and there was ale, but every where you looked in Wood Street there was food, hog roast, ribs, curries, paella,
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The Pauline Quirke Academy summer show.
The Pauline Quirke Academy which has a branch in Swindon presented its Summer Show at the Phoenix Theatre at New College at the weekend. Gallery of the opening of the show:
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Swindon schools create a game.
The game Binary: decoded was written, designed and developed by young people from Commonweal School, Crowdys Hill School and Lydiard Park Academy in Swindon. It is supported by Swindon Does Arts and our generous Crowdfunder Patrons. The major funder is Arts Council England. App Description on 148 apps site. In a world where robots rule
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Chilli eating contest.
As part of the inSwindon Chilli Festival there was a Chilli eating competition. In the end Neil Childs proved to be the person to overcome the heat. Gallery:
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