Swindon, England News

Dance group Sophistication will be performing at this year's charity ball in Swindon to raise cash for various organisations Tickets are already being snapped up for this year's event, a Las Vegas-themed extravaganza featuring hit West End show The Ratpack and glitzy dance troupe Sophistication.

SWINDON residents are the least anxious in the country about their home running costs, according to a national survey by property website Rightmove.

Protesters against plans for a late night pharmacy in Gorse Hill gather at the Civic Offices in Swindon in November last year CAMPAIGNERS are fighting an appeal against a decision to reject plans for a pharmacy with a needle exchange and extended opening hours in Gorse Hill .

The Mayor of Marlborough has asked for a link from the estates in the north of the town allowing access onto the old railway path that provides an off-road route to Swindon as part of the National Cycle Network.

A DEBT counselling charity in Swindon is preparing for what is predicted to be its busiest day of the year on Monday.

WALKERS in this year's Starlight Walk will be taking a step back in time to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics.

NATIONAL pride will have to be put on hold briefly as singers from both sides of the Anglo-Welsh border have been chosen to lead the pre-match chorus at the home of English rugby.

SPEED cameras in Swindon may have been switched off but volunteers across the county have helped catch motorists breaking the limit 15,000 times in a year.

Other properties seized in Swindon over the past two years include a flat in Bath Road and a terraced house in Keats Crescent.

The side road, which passes behind a car park, is used as a cut-though to the central shopping area.

A RETIRED Royal Mail worker has called on Swindon Council to explain an apparent A 1m discrepancy in figures for its employee pension scheme.

Councillor Joe Tray with his dog Billy and PC Frank Key at the launch of Dog Walk Watch in Swindon Upper Stratton community beat manager PC Frank Key has come up with Dog Walk Watch, which was launched on Saturday and will be piloted in Stratton and Highworth for the first six months.

SWINDON'S waiting list for council houses has risen to more than 13,000 people, figures released this week show.

MAPPING website has pinpointed a small area in Old Town as being the biggest trouble-spot in the south of Swindon.

THE firm inSwindon will be responsible for managing Swindon town centre for another five years after traders decided in a ballot to grant it a second term.

One of Wiltshire's first events to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee and her links with the county takes place on Saturday at 7.30pm at the The Platform, part of the Swindon Railway Village, with the premiere of a new piece of music commemorating the decommissioning of the GWR loco Princess Elizabeth, in February 1952, the month she acceded to the ... (more)

OSCAR contenders, gritty urban dramas, and a documentary about morris dancing are in the line-up for 2012 Swindon Film Festival, which begins next month.

THE new Honda Civic is creating a major buzz, both in showrooms and on the street, and has been hailed as a real boost for the town.

St Mary's Church, in Lydiard Tregoze, launched an appeal last year to carry out work on its chapel and replace water damaged goods, repair windows, and clean and conserve its unique wall paintings.

WHEN supermum Nichola Styles found out her teenage daughter Krystal-Elaine had nominated her for a Pride of Swindon award she was overcome with emotion.