Hills’ Christmas Care A local charity providing temporary shelter for the homeless at Christmas received a welcome boost today from long-term supporters the Hills Group. Swindon-based Hills started supporting Christmas Care eleven years ago, and has contributed each year in various ways. This year Hills’ employees have taken up a collection of non-perishable goods […]
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Christmas brings lots of goodies, even in the eating out sector. The London chain of delightful deserts has opened a branch in Swindon, not far from the Wyvern Theatre and the new Regent Circus complex. The opening was live on Swindon 105.5 and the ribbon was cut by Nicole Cox – Miss Wiltshire. Go on
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The Whitbread owned Costa coffee shops have a new branch in North Swindon. The company has opened in the old Blockbuster shop opposite the library. Gallery:
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British Land have put on show the upgrade proposed for the North Orbital Shopping Centre in Swindon. Gallery:
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Over one hundred farmers protested at the Iceland Depot in Bridgemead, Swindon,overnight, against the low price the company charges for milk. It is part of a campaign by Farmers for Action to get the price paid for milk to farmers to be at a sustainable level. At present UK farmers loose pennies on every pint
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Swindon’s Designer Outlet Village has just opened the new extention calling it The Long Shop after the building it is housed in. As part of the GWR Works the Long Shop was the Foundry and as such was one of the main supply lines to the works. Here is a gallery of the new Long
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The community radio station Swindon 105.5 FM was presented the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service (the MBE for the voluntary sector) by the Duke of Kent during a visit to the town. Chloe Leadbeater, a young photographer for the agency, covered the event and filed these images. She even got a selfie with Jahméne Douglas
The Duke of Kent was in town for two visits, both of which Calyx Picture Agency covered. The first to make the site is the visit to Swindon Dance in the Old Town Hall in Regent’s Circus. Gallery of the visit.
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A new state-of-the art air ambulance landed in Wiltshire for the first time. The Bell 429 helicopter flew into Trafalgar Park, near Salisbury, where it was welcomed by around 500 special guests, including former patients whose lives were saved by Wiltshire Air Ambulance paramedics. Wiltshire Air Ambulance is making aviation history as the Bell 429
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The Wyvern Theatre Launched their Pantomime at The Riverside, Lechlade-on-Thames. Coronation Street character Nigel Havers, who stars in many films and TV programmes, was joined by newcomer Lucy Kane and pantomime favourite David Ashley, who has performed in the Wyvern Theatre’s festive productions for the last three years. Lucy Kane, who is the daughter of
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