Matt Holland, director of the Swindon Festival of Literature, looks back on two weeks of words and wonders
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The Link magazine, SwindonLink's paper sister, is in crisis! Overwhelmed by stories and successful with advertising, it does not have enough hours in the day to produce Swindon's most closely read publication.
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Some 100 women from Swindon who have given themselves the name 'Swindon Twin Peak' plan to walk the streets of London in the early hours of Sunday 14 May, wearing Playtex Wonderbras, decorated in aid of Breakthrough cancer research.
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After an Ofsted report in December 1998 pointed out that the computers at Swindon's Westlea School were becoming antiques, big efforts have made to upgrade and renew equipment.
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A new permanent display at Swindon's Lydiard House shows how the Victorians enjoyed their puddings writes Sarah Finch-Crisp, keeper of the house
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Two Swindon teachers travelled to Buckingham Palace on 3 May to meet the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
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Beat officer PC Rob Mortimer, is restarting his twice monthly surgeries at Freshbrook community centre as part of the Freshbrook Neighbourhood Safety Team (NeST) initiative.
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The PMH special baby care unit should be £1,000 better off thanks to Bass Brewers and not just £500 says Shaw resident Phil Archer.
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Almost two thirds of adults in Wiltshire are not registered with an NHS dentist and a new service launched in West Swindon will attempt to address the concern that dental health may be in decline.
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Swindon's Festival of Literature is cited as a cultural high point that proves the town should be a city.
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Months of planning and rehearsals came together in a great display of creativity when singers, dancers and artwork showed off the talents of the town's young people at the Millennium Dome on 4 April.
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Members of Swindon's leading swimming club The Tigersharks spent their Easter holidays training and competing in Jersey.
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Toothill's Phoenix doctor's practice is broadening the range of health care available by making space at the surgery available to complementary therapists.
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Mission Romania trip will take place despite vandal attack.
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With teenage pregnancies in Britain the highest in Europe, and Swindon having higher than average levels, a lunch club to support young mums is being relaunched
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The summer season of steam railway rides on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway was launched on 25 March
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Six times national swimming champion and Olympic hopeful Sarah Collings was on hand on 6 April to launch the millennium area youth games for Swindon, Wiltshire and Dorset.
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James Waddicor needed more space for his family, so he converted the loft at his Swindon home. Nothing unusual about this, except that it is home for a massive insect collection.
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A Swindon Council official has refuted any idea of the town's two major sports and leisure centre's being shut.
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Abbey Mead's second primary school - Catherine Wayte School on Elstree Way - is now only four months away from welcoming its first pupils and headteacher Gaye Ching has officially taken up her post.
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Work has started on the 99th pub for Arkell's brewery which will open at the new St Andrews Ridge village centre later in the year, next to a convenience store and nursery.
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Swindon's Wiltshire Festival is fast gaining a reputation for landing sensational acts.
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Popular community beat police officer PC Roger Guy retires at the end of April, having spent his last five years with the Wiltshire constabulary covering North Swindon.
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A budding Swindon journalist has just published the second edition of a magazine aimed at computer gamers.
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A group of year 10 pupils at Swindon's Hreod Parkway School are eagerly awaiting the return of the annual year book from the printers in Canada.
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Swindon's Olympic pairs hopefuls Andrew Seabrook and Tiffany Sfikas had a rare opportunity recently to train with British Olympic gold medallist Jane Torvill
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A big fund raising event in aid of the Prospect Hospice will encourage all participants to seek out a healthier lifestyle.
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South Swindon MP Julia Drown has been pilloried for wanting to take her young son to work with her in London.
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Dressability is an innovative Swindon based charity group helping disabled and elderly people who find clothes and dressing a problem.
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Swindon Borough Council have come on board Norman Butler's attempt to row the Atlantic
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Volunteers for a tin collection in Swindon town centre are needed by the Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal on Saturday 22 April.
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Parents interested in sending their children to Swindon's newest primary school, the Catherine Wayte School in Abbey Meads, have the chance to meet the headteacher Gaye Ching
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Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal recently made a private visit to Swindon to open a national conference arranged by Swindon's own Princess Royal Trust Carers Centre, Focus on Carers and Self Help.
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Months of hard work by 45 teachers and 1,200 performers comes to a spectacular conclusion when 13 primary and 3 secondary schools,
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First Swindon Jazz Festival: Wednesday 26 April - Sunday 30 April
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Shaw resident Phil Archer is trying to persuade Bass brewers to settle a wager about the use of The Village Inn pub at Shaw village centre which they admitted losing nine months ago.
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Continued restoration work on the Wilts & Berks canal at Mouldon Hill to the west of Swindon is assured thanks to a donation of over £27,000
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Forget stamp collecting or am dram, tens of thousands of people these days prefer to get together to debate investment strategy
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With building work about to start on the next stage of the housing development in North Swindon, worries have been expressed about a
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Shaw based chiropractor Sandra Davies celebrated her second year in business at the end of January.
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Children and teachers at over twenty two primary and secondary schools, Swindon College and Junction 16 amateur drama group are busily preparing to
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A group of thirteen and fourteen year olds studying Spanish at Greendown School in Grange Park have been given the unique chance to bid
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Jean Goncalves has been appointed as play development worker with the West Swindon community education team.
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A Swindon mum has discovered a talent for illustration and will soon see her work in print for the second time.
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Now that the Christmas and Millennium celebrations are long gone The Filling Station can look back on a busy and successful festive
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A group of women who have given themselves the name 'Swindon Twin Peak' plan to walk the streets of London in the early hours of 14 May, wearing Playtex Wonderbras in
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Swindon's newest landmark building - the Cellular Operations headquarters - on the edge of Peatmoor Lagoon will be featured
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Freshbrook dentist Brendon Ball is making an appeal for anybody who speaks Ukrainian to contact him for assistance at the beginning of May when two dentists from Ukraine will be in the town.
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What is there to do if you are a teenager living on one of Europe's fastest growing estates? Are young people being ignored as the northern development grows?
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Norman Butler from Westlea in Swindon and team mate Chris Higgins from Gloucester have already spent over 200 hours building a boat in which they intend to row over 3,000 miles in
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Plans are well underway for the annual highlight in town's cultural calendar: the seventh and longest yet, Swindon Festival of Literature, which takes place between 1 and 13 May.
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Tuesday 4 April is Swindon's day in the Millennium Dome when the talent of its youngsters will be displayed in the Macdonald's Our Town area.
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A team of Swindon women is being formed to walk a marathon course through the streets of London with several hundred others in the early hours of 14 May wearing bras
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The battle lines have been drawn and petitions signed in favour of or objecting to a cafe proposed by mobile 'phone company Cellular Operations, to be built next to its headquarters overlooking Peatmoor Lagoon.
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North Swindon MP Michael Wills is calling a meeting on Friday 11 February, 7pm, at Abbey Meads School to give residents the chance to
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Gaye Ching, 45, has been appointed the headteacher for the 210 place Catherine Wayte School, which opens in September off
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The buyer of one of Swindon's largest commercial developments is to be Asda UK, now part of the giant US retailer Wal-Mart.
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One the most popular TV documentaries in the last few months of the 20th Century was Channel 4's 'The 1900 House.' In it a 1999 family spent three months experiencing how their Victorian ancestors would have lived.
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Children at Brook Field School are making friends in Europe using the Internet and also good old fashioned pencil and paper.
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After school tuition to support children who have difficulties with reading and writing, using the Arrow system is available at the Peatmoor School, Swindon.
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Visitors to swindonlink have been asked to help piece together information about the descendants of Swindon Mayor Edwin Jones and murderer Charles Everard Canham.
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A big party is being planned for Westlea School parents who helped former headteacher Neil Griffiths to turn a simple idea to develop early language skills into a world leading educational innovation.
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Twenty-five years after its formation, Swindon's Hindu community or Samaj has elected women to the highest positions of its executive committee.
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Thirteen year old Swindon actress Sarah Hollis has been exploring one possible scenario for the future through a new thirteen part series for Children's ITV which starts on 10 January.
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Swindon artist Susan Carr has now completed her work with schools in the Haydon Wick area to design and make three themed tapestries, which will form part of the largest tapestry in the world to be displayed in the Millennium Dome.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, this season's pantomime at the Wyvern Theatre is well into its run, but there is still time to buy a ticket before it closes on 15 January.
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