and is linked to St Mary's Church in Swindon's Lydiard Park via the Church Mission Society
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Thanks to the generosity of people attending the Wiltshire Festival Party in the Park on 21 August, fire fighters from Westlea station collected £1,400 for the Fire Services Benevolent Fund
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is the vow from Toothill's doctor Peter Swinyard. And patients are intent on helping to maintain it. Several hundred turned up to an open day on 20 November to meet the staff and tour the facilities
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Youngsters at Tregoze School in Grange Park spent an art day in early December creating large 3D millennium bugs to decorate the computer suite
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Look out for Swindon's high tech £82 million Motorola mobile phone factory in the new James Bond spectacular 'The World is Not Enough.' It masquerades as the headquarters for a Turkish oil company
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Swindon based mobile phone company Cellular Operations has donated £1,500 to help Peatmoor Community School develop its grounds into an environmental classroom. And company staff are going to help out as well
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South Swindon MP, Julia Drown will be spending the next couple of months away from Westminster to spend time with her new baby
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Thanks to the generosity of people attending the Wiltshire Festival Party in the Park on 21 August, fire fighters from Westlea station collected £1,400 for the Fire Services Benevolent Fund
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A project to help early years language skills, developed with the help of parents at Westlea School is being considered for a prestigious international prize for cross cultural innovation in education at the end of November
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Vandals who spray paint council property will not see their work on display for long, thanks to a £12,000 investment by Swindon Council's waste management department in a diesel powered high pressure steam cleaning machine
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A keen cook from Freshbrook is setting up what she believes is Swindon's first multicultural catering service, called Bola's Kitchen
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swindonlink recently told the amazing tale of Lesley and Michael Deegan's attempt to get married in a balloon at dawn over Las Vegas in late July
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With wine high on the Christmas shopping list, Oz Clark, one of the world's leading wine experts, has written an Encyclopedia of Wine, drawing on his deep knowledge and excellent palate for discovering the best from around the world
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Programme to boost achievement launches. Peatmoor Community Primary School holds the Swindon licence to run private ARROW after school tuition, to
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The tragic story of Sarah Winrow, 18, was told on 21 October when a joint-inquest heard that she had been strangled last December by her partner Mark Hinton, 28, at their home in Pinehurst
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There are three great shows coming up at the Wyvern Theatre, before Jacinta Stapleton and the cast of Snow White take centre stage for the Millennium pantomime
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Children at Brook Field School celebrated National Poetry Day in October by seeing their own work in print thanks to Swindon based Natural Environment Research Council
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Swindon artist Susan Carr has almost completed her work with local schools to create three tapestries for the Millennium Dome. The local
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Two youngsters at Freshbrook School are helping communication amongst pupils by producing a school magazine. The idea was
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Swindon's largest family were inundated with media interest after their thirteenth arrival Eleanor, following the publication of their photograph on the front page of the Swindon's Link magazine and being featured on swindonlink.com
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Battle lines are being drawn for 9 November when Swindon's future development as part of the Wiltshire Structure Plan 2011 is again examined in public at the Thistle Hotel, Fleming Way
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Children at Tregoze School in Grange Park are making long distance friends in New South Wales via e-mail after a visit at the end of September by Australian teachers Peter and Jill Campbell
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A new super high tech fitness centre has opened at the Link Centre offering the best equipment available in Swindon. Costing £250,000, the new Active Lifestyle Centre is the
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Youngsters at Tregoze School will soon be making long distance friends with children of a similar age in Australia using the internet, once a teacher exchange programme has been completed in November
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The University of Bath is to establish a new site in the town, using existing accommodation in the soon to close Oakfield School in the Parks area. New facilities are to be built over the next five years
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Has teamed up with ex-policeman John Dandy to set up new schools for children aged 5 to 12 years of age in the town, which emphasise personal responsibility as much as they do martial arts
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Leslie Shaw from Middleleaze has had a wedding to remember. The last day of term in July for the Tregoze School teacher was full of wedding preparation surprises
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Divali, the Hindu and Sikh Festival of Light at the end of October, is going to be celebrated by a new Asian disco, Sounds of Darkness
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Norman Butler from Swindon is planning to visit Barbados - but it won't be until October 2001. He's going to have to row the 3,000 miles to get there, and he hopes to make lots of money for the NSPCC
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A service to help neighbours in Swindon sort out disputes and disagreements has been launched, thanks to a grant of £197,895 by the National Lottery Charities Board
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A team from Swindon based charity Mission Romania returned at the end of August from another visit to the Transylvanian town of Targu Mures
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A Swindon school teacher spends all spare time following the army of Parliament in reenactments of Civil War battles
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After months of being seen by visitors on the Internet, the Taw Hill doctor's surgery finally opened on 20 September in temporary premises off Queen Elizabeth Drive, two years in advance of building a health centre at the proposed village centre
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It started with 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at Westlea School in December 1997 and grew into a Shakespeare Festival with 500 children from four schools putting on The Tempest. Next Spring, thanks to a National Lottery Millennium Fund grant of
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A project launched in September, to give children and young people across Swindon and the surrounding area the chance to learn video making, animation, sound recording, photography and web site design
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Are you looking for a childminder, searching for a primary school or simply trying to organise your child's social life? A new free service has is now available to help you
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Veteran mum Sue Povey of Grange Park has hinted after the arrival of her latest baby that it might not have been her final pregnancy. Eleanor, born at the end of August, is a lovely child, but Sue and husband Ian have decided
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She's only seven months old but Arabella LeCoyte is already following in the footsteps of her glamorous and talented mother - former Oil of Ulay girl Amber Bezer
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Fire fighters from Westlea station were out in force at the West Swindon Centre recently to launch a pilot Community Firewatch project
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The first of two pieces of artwork by children at primary schools in Haydon Wick for display in the Millennium Dome, with other tapestries from across Britain, was unveiled in July
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With the pleasant summer temperatures and holidays still with us, winter seems a long way off. Homelessness is an issue that only comes into the public focus around Christmas time
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A new lottery, aimed exclusively at people living in Swindon and its surrounds, is heading for its first big draw on 5 November. Launched by the Prospect Hospice to raise funds for its care services, there will be a weekly prize fund of £1,700, with a top prize of
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Swindon's horticultural therapy project TWIGS is back in business and is now taking referrals, having moved to a new building at Moredon Gardens in Cheney Manor. The voluntary organisation provides
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