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 (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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Emerging in a cloud of dust, the first train travels along the newly re-doubled Swindon to Gloucester railway line after it was closed for a month; well nearly re-doubled. The £45 million project has seen the old track re-aligned over the past month with the closure of the line. Work is now progressing on putting
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Copy Rhona Jack 8th HOTCHA Opens in Bid to Revolutionise Chinese Takeaways · 8th store to open in South West in 22 months · 3 former takeaway delivery drivers now deliver on a dream James Liang and Andy Chan are two former Chemistry students from University College London who were once delivery staff for a
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Lydiard Park has yet again received the prestigious GREEN FLAG for its House and Park as it takes part in Love Parks Week. which is the UK’s greatest celebration of parks and green space. Love Parks Week 2013 is a nationwide initiative aiming to get everybody outdoors enjoying the beautiful parks and green spaces in
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Thank to the lady driver that went through the floods at Bruce Street on Monday producing a most spectacular bow wave the image was in the Daily Express. The floods were caused by monsoon conditions that hit the town mid morning, with thunder rumbling around. Taking pictures of Bruce St Bridges, which is a good
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As luxury air travel goes, the Lockheed Super Constellation is possibly the most iconic early aircraft to be given that title, and the modern equivalent must be the massive Airbus A380 parts of which are produced in the UK. British Airways has just taken delivery of one of the monsters, and displayed it over the
When one is pensioned off some take it easy and some make the most of the third age. But one of three PR9s acquired by private owner Mike Davis in 2006, XH134, has been given a new lease of life to become the star of the Midair Squadron. “The restoration of this exceptional and unique
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Carol Vorderman at RIAT with her boyfriend, former Red Arrows pilot Graham Duff. Love At First Flight: Carol Vorderman in 1st plane to land at RIAT Fairford,Piloted by Ex-Red Arrows Partner, Graham Duff July 17th, RAF FAIRFORD, Gloucestershire, England. At 7:50am a 2 seater fixed wing Diamond DA40 touched down on the runway, as the
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Chancellor George Osbourne payed a flying visit to Swindon in a transport related morning. First he visited the re-doubling of the Swindon to Kemble line. Rigged out in a bright orange high-vis jacket he had a photocall doing up some of the nuts that make up the railway tracks. To complete the transport theme he
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