Holocaust Memorial Day
Crowds gathered to celebrate Holocaust Memorial Day at Swindon’s Cenotaph. Gallery.
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Calyx Picture Agency round-up of 2014.
Some of the highlights of the year that Calyx Picture Agency has covered. Aircraft played a big part in the year with local Red Arrows official artist, David Bent, having his book presented to Prince Charles at the Royal International Air Tattoo in July.: The RIAT event provided a couple of static aircraft pictures
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The plane now taxiing down the A419……
This Press release from Wiltshire Police says it all. Hope you didn’t get stuck in the traffic. Wiltshire Police are warning motorists to be aware of an abnormal load that will be moving through the county this weekend. At approximately 06:00 hours on Sunday 03rd August 2014 a specialised load transporter carrying an Airbus Aircraft
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Stuck in traffic? this could be why!
A lorry caused traffic chaos in Swindon as it became stuck under one of the town’s bridges. The articulated lorry carrying deodorant got stuck under the Wootton Bassett Road bridge at about 2:30.
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Murder by the station.
Shortly before midnight on Thursday 26th June 2014, a man was found dead next to a path between Rodbourne and Swindon town centre. The path begins close to Swindon Railway Station and runs to the Oasis Leisure Centre. The man was found approximately 100 metres from the railway station entrance, just after the underpass. A
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Wiltshire Police hit Swindon.
The largest raid in Wiltshire Police history hit Swindon supported by Op Harness, saw more than 400 police officers and staff execute upwards of 60 warrants at residential and businesses addresses in Swindon and London. The operation was the second part of a long term undercover operation investigating the supply of Class A drugs in
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First with new kit again. They did it in 1998 too.
Air Ambulance to get first Bell 429 to operate as an air ambulance in the UK. But in 1998 the Police and Ambulance got together and took delivery of a new Boeing Explorer Helicopter which was the first to be seen in the UK. The chopper, which is famed for having no tail rota, was
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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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Wood Street closed. UPDATE
UPDATE. Wiltshire Police have issued an update on the Wood Street assault. A 25-year-old male from the Swindon area has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. He remains in custody at Gablecross Police Station, Swindon. The 27-year-old victim remains in a critical condition in the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford
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Wam Bang lorry stuck.
A local lorry has become the latest victim of the Wootton Bassett Road bridge. Pictures: Courtney Brock and Richard Wintle
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