The Big Arts Day is launched at the De Vere Village with acoustic music, dance and poetry as well as mobile art. See the links below for more information: updated as links come on line. http://www.swindonweb.com/event/?m=40&s=0&ss=0&c=10842&t=Big+Arts+Day+2012 http://www.swindonlink.com/news/big-arts-day-14-july–the-hottest-thing-this-summer http://www.totalswindon.com/news/?contentID=1382  

Sign outside a Swindon Hotel and Restaurant.

Many thousands of people descended into the valley between  Wroughton and Marlborough for The St. James’s Place Barbury International Horse Trials and Wiltshire County Show. The show featured a Food Festival with celebrity chefs showing off their culinary arts and featuring some of the very best cookery demonstrations with locally sourced produce enough wet any

TV chief Brian Turner cooks up a delight at Barbury County Fair during demonstrations by leading local chefs and cookery specialists.  

Zara Phillips (daughter of the Princess Royal Princess Anne) trains with the Olympic squad at the Barbury Horse Trials near Swindon. Riding her Olympic entry the Queens Granddaughter took part in the CIC** dressage, the first of the three disciplines, with Show Jumping and Cross Country to follow on Saturday and Sunday. Pictures from: www.Sportswindon.com

Swindon Museum and Art Gallery has been given a painting by Hubert Cook. The painting is from 1938 of a woman called Ruby Mutter and is being donated to the Art Gallery by her son, Brian Goddard. The Swindon Art Collection has already a large collection of Hubert’s work, although only one is on display.

To add to the woes of having to scrap plans to develop another site in Swindon. TV development guru Kevin McCloud and his development company HAB Oakus have been lambasted by residents about the poor quality of the prize winning Eco-development.   Residents have complained of doors falling off and stairways coming away.    

TV Vet’s Venture Set to Revolutionise World of Pet Care Envisage a new state-of-the-art veterinary practice with ground-breaking innovations, including a glass fronted clinical area with a viewing gallery for owners, live internet streaming, online pet medical records and flexible online booking. This exciting new concept in animal care will far exceed anything done in

Swindon Old Town held an old fashioned carnival and fate, complete with Carnival Queen and Princess, to mark the end of the Old Town Festival. A mixture of fun food and fayre was laid out on the Old Town Lawns in a bigger than last year show.     A Western village complete with shooting