Like a Phoenix.
Building has appeared on the Old Swindon College site. It is part of the new Cinema and Supermarket complex that forms part of the Swindon regeneration programme.
Swindon goes poetry potty.
The Swindon Festival of Poetry is underway. With a launch in the Central Library reading area Matt Holland and Hilda Sheehan launched the second Festival of Poetry. Here is a listing of the events: Friday 4th October. 10.30 am onwards The Platform – Poetry Surgeries with Angela France 11am – 6pm
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Swindon town centre has a Farmers Market.
At last the center of Swindon has a Farmers Market. After a much publicised council ‘U’ turn the eagerly awaited farmer’s market has arrived in Havelock Square, under the Brunel Statue. The bustling market will run from 9am-3pm every Thursday- and will feature fantastic produce from local traders, offer great value and provide unbeatably fresh
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Museum chuffed with attendance at Steam Show.
The ever popular Steam Show at the STEAM Museum attracted about 4,000 visitors this year. With an abundance of stands and tracks on show, it was the St. Ives layout that created the most interest, It’s creator, having never seen his dream on display, passed away a few weeks before the Swindon show, which was
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Nexus Treks into Cheney Manor.
For the Trekers among you Nexus means “A nonlinear temporal continuum in which reality appears to reshape itself in fulfillment of a person’s innermost wishes,” That’s what the owners of managed Offices hope to achieve as Nexus open a new office complex on the Cheney Manor to a gathering of business leaders and Local dignitaries.
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Core – Healthy art happens in Old Town
The Core has opened it’s upper floor to Art and exercise. The Core Juice Bar in Swindon Old Town launch their exciting new juice menu, coupled with the opening of their new art gallery and health exercise area. The preview evening had live music by local musicians a tour of the gallery and samples of
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UTC New Principle starts work.
Angela Barker-Dench, the new principle of UTC Swindon, Spoke for the first time about the new £10m development at Intel Corp Ltd on Pipers Way in Swindon. The presentation was exclusively for the employees of Intel, a partner of UTC Swindon, but it marked one of her first working days in the job. A busy
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Karen Edwards raises a petition to change PACE.
Karen Edwards (Becky’s Godden-Edwards’ mother) has launched a petition to try and change the laws of PACE – Police and Criminal Evidence Act – since the injustice of PACE allowed Becky’s alleged murderer, Christopher Halliwell, to go unpunished for her death. Becky was murdered in 2004 and her body found found in Gloucestershire, after a
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Kevin McCloud opens a new development in Stroud
The developer of the Triangle development off Northern Road, Kevin McCloud of Grand Designs, has opened a new development at Cashes Green in Stroud. I readied my passport and crossed the boarder to record the opening of Applewood, McClouds latest project. Gallery:
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Film Rush – James Hunt wedding on 17th Dec 1983 in Marlborough
Looking through the archive we discovered a set of negatives that is related to the film Rush that is released shortly. F1 driving champion James Hunt married local girl Sarah Lomax at Marlborough Registrar Office in the famous High Street. Gallery:
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