Greendown School teacher Cristina Bennett describes an amazing, ground breaking trip to create links with a partner school in Africa
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Beckham started the trend for personalised football boots and it's taken some time to be widely available, but a Swindon company is now offering a leather embroidery service.
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Swindon people are being invited to contribute ideas and suggestions for the 200th anniversary of IK Brunel's birth in April 2006.
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Swindon South MP Julia Drown met with celebrities Lenny Henry and Dawn French in the House of Commons and others such as Claudia Schiffer, Richard Curtis, Emma Freud, Davina McCall, June Sarpong and Kirsty Young at the parliamentary launch of the 'Make Poverty History' campaign.
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Nationwide in Swindon unveiled its charity calendar for 2005, and it's a calendar with a difference!
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Travelling around Swindon has become easier on Stagecoach routes 6, 7 and 8 which connect Kingsdown, Highworth and Freshbrook to Swindon town centre, thanks to the launch of Pop-In.
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Swindon's first Imaging Festival, named 'Art in the Street' kicked off at the Apartment and around Havelock Square on Thursday 4 November, 5pm to 8pm.
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Swindonlink reporter Alex Ogle sums up the US elections, from the University of Pittsburgh
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swindonlink.com reporter Alex Ogle reports the last frantic day of campaigning by George Bush
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Six days before the US election, President George W. Bush rallied for votes from both parties yesterday in Vienna, Ohio, writes swindonlink reporter Alex Ogle
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A range of initiatives that will help strengthen and develop Swindon's businesses community will officially be launched on Tuesday 2 November
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Swindon has been designated by the Home Office today as a TOGETHER 'Anti-Social Behaviour' Action Area, tackling anti-social behaviour as part of a massive expansion to tackle the problem nationwide.
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A. Only one if they're switched on to Energy Efficiency Week 25th to the 31st October.
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In a few days the race for the White House will be over and the lives of not only Americans, but hundreds of millions around the world, as well as the health of the planet will be determined. Alex Ogle, from Swindon, is spending a year at the University of Pittsburgh, says the result is too close to call.
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Did you take part in the excavations at Lydiard Park this summer? Perhaps you were one of the 200 volunteers who helped Wessex Archaeology in their investigations. Or maybe you were one of the many hundreds of people who came along to watch or talk to the archaeologists as they dug into the history of the eighteenth century park.
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Reserve a house and a butler will help you settle in.
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On Wednesday 6 October celebrity George Baker who we all know as Inspector Wexford made a visit to the Wiltshire Air Ambulance to help promote a forthcoming fundraising evening to raise funds for the Appeal.
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The Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is delighted to report the return of the water vole to rivers and waterways in Swindon and North Wiltshire.
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In reaction to the proposals to replace Hreod Parkway School with new buildings on an adjacent site, John Ball from Grange Park, who voluntarily set up and runs wildFlowers-And-Butterflies(FAB) at The Haven in Cheney Manor, which is dedicated to developing butterfly friendly habitats in Swindon, says that the project will consume another important area of green space.
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The Chief Constable for Wiltshire, Dame Elizabeth Neville, departed the Force on Friday September 17, after more than seven years leading one of the country's highest performing and most innovative police forces.
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A Swindon marathon runner has helped the Swindon Down's Syndrome Group with £1,000 after noticing a story about the group's fashion show in the April Swindon Link magazine.
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Well known dance teacher Jenny Sullivan celebrates twenty-five years since she opened her first class at Freshbrook Community Centre.
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A young writer, whose handwriting was unreadable a couple of years ago, has had the confidence to write to SwindonLink asking for help to get one of his short stories published.
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Swindon's GWH is dogged by questions about size, treatment procedures and costs. So the Chief Executive Lyn Hill-Tout has come up with answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions put to her
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Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has announced that the Swindon Southern Development Area (SDA) - known locally as 'the Front Garden' - has been included in the Government's Urban Design Coding Pilot Programme.
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A university should be the mainstay of any proposals to renew and develop Swindon town centre says the Swindon Civic Trust - not more offices, business parks and housing.
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A Swindon marathon runner has helped the Swindon Down's Syndrome Group with £1,000 after noticing a story about the group's fashion show in the April Link magazine.
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Swindon's ice hockey team, playing out of Link Centre, the npower Wildcats have got their new strip for the 2004/05 season.
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Bringing people together is as much a part of creating new homes as putting together the bricks and mortar, so an award winning house builder Redrow in Swindon gathered its first and future residents for a drink and a chat.
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Brewers, the family-run decorators' merchant, is celebrating its 100th year this year by donating substantial sums to charity around the country.
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The Wiltshire and Swindon Structure Plan that covers twenty years between 1996 and 2016 sets out how the different districts in Wiltshire will meet Government requirements to provide 3,000 new houses each year and a public enquiry in June examined the updates for the plan for the second half of the period. Jean Saunders of Swindon Friends of the Earth explains the complexities surrounding future growth.
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Swindon Council votes to preserve Shaw Forest Country Park from threat of Swindon Town stadium development. Great Western Community Forest can now celebrate 10th anniversary
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A Home Office of a Crime Bulletin for the financial year April 2003 to March 2004 shows Wiltshire as a safe place to live. This publication include recorded crime and detection rate figures and data from the British Crime Survey (BCS).
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The final stages of erasing the former Princess Margaret Hospital from the Swindon landscape began on 13 July as mechanical diggers moved in to tear down its Main Block.
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Swindon councillors are preparing to debate two motions put to full council on Thursday 22 July which could see an end to Swindon Town FCs plan to move its stadium from the county ground to Shaw Forest Country Park.
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