Sponsored walk at Shaw Forest Country Park in aid of the Brandon Humphries Walk for Life appeal Saturday 10 July, 10am - 12noon
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A plan to restore the 18th Century Groundwell Farmhouse, located close to the junction of Cricklade Road and Thamesdown Drive at Groundwell West, has been lodged with Swindon Council and is due to go before the planning committee at the end of July.
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Bradon Forest School in Purton has recently become one of only 476 schools nationally to achieve the prestigious 'Artsmark Gold' status.
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A new 2,620sq ft Co-op supermarket, built at a cost of around £270,000 opened at Taw Hill Village Centre on 15 June
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Wiltshire Constabulary has just completed a six-week pilot scheme of a unique, state-of-the-art digital pen, which is being pioneered between the force and Hewlett-Packard Ltd (HP), and is the world's first police force to undertake this trial.
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Wiltshire Police have announced the appointment of a new Divisional Commander for Swindon with Chief Superintendent Andy Tatam taking over from Chief Superintendent Patrick Stayt in June.
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If you enjoy walking, cycling, swimming or any other fitness activity, the RNLI in the South West is looking to you to help them.
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They marched from the east to oppose the University of Bath building on green belt land next to Coate Water, they strode in from the west to object to a stadium for Swindon Town FC being built on Shaw Forest Country Park, and they were joined in the middle by those who don't want development of the Front Garden, as well as the New Mechanic's Institution Trust, who want to see the derelict eyesore in the town centre returned to community use.
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Swindon Borough Council has announced that, after several months of rigorous evaluation and negotiation with bidding teams from three different companies, it has selected the consortium led by Equion plc as its 'Preferred Bidder' to design, build, finance and operate seven new schools in North Swindon.
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As Swindon's largest ever education project is announced, the hopes of North Swindon parents to send their children to their new, local secondary school have been crushed.
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With no doubt West Swindon mother Susan Trowbridge, 44, can really be called a super woman and deserved the all-expenses paid trip to London with her family to attend the Asda/Sun Wondermum awards for five finalists at the Savoy Hotel on 20 May.
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Tornadoes, hail stones the size of tennis balls, tidal waves, and a big freeze that kills off the Royal Family - that's the freaky weather on show in the new Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow which opens this week across Wiltshire. Click here to read more
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Would you like to help turn Swindon's River Ray into a beautiful, wildlife-rich area for people to enjoy? Do you want to help the planet by becoming Swindon's most energy-efficient community - and win a cash prize?
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Martin Richards was appointed 7 May to succeed Dame Elizabeth Neville as Wiltshire's Chief Constable in September 2004. Dame Elizabeth will leave Wiltshire Constabulary in September after serving seven years with the Force.
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On Sunday 23 May, the Voluntary Emergency Services are coming together for a major recruitment event in Swindon - the second year an event of this kind has been held and it will prove a great afternoon out for the whole family.
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Blue headline Party in the Park line-up
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The announcement by Swindon Town FC on Monday 22 March that they are in discussion with Swindon Borough Council to build a new 23,000 all seater stadium costing £20 million on the old Shaw tip in West Swindon came out of the blue. Residents are both surprised and shocked by the proposal and starting to consider how deeply they want to object.
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It's no joke; GWR FM and Age Concern Swindon are looking for teams to hot foot it to the wildest local fundraising event of the year - the first ever Swindon Fire Walk Challenge.
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Building work has started on the innovative new central office for the National Trust.
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Swindon's Peatmoor Community Primary School is well known for its commitment to helping Dihlabeng, its partner school in South Africa with educational equipment and materials. But now it's starting to send children worldwide as well.
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Link Centre hosted its first session of wheelchair rugby on Valentine's Day, but there was anything but love between the guys confined to armoured chairs speeding around the court and crashing into each other to obtain possession.
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A well known Swindon lady celebrated her 100th birthday when the Mayor of Swindon coun Derek Benfield delivered a greetings card from the Queen at a family lunch.
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The forces for and against the development of a university campus at Coate Water are lined up, each arguing their case forcefully.
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Central area councillor David Nash has written a stinging criticism of the proposals to turn the Grade II* listed Mechanics' Institute in Swindon town centre into a hotel and leisure club and challenged Swindon Council's planning committee to decline the application when it considers the plans.
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Swindon organic farmer Helen Browning has been announced as the Sainsbury's Organic Supplier Hero of the for the top quality pork, sausages and bacon bred on her Eastbrook Farm, Bishopstone, just to the east of the town.
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The West Swindon Family and Community Project was one of three family centres in the town targeted for cut backs by Swindon Council in its attempt to keep council tax down. Although it has been saved for this year, project manager Alyson Cardis explains why West Swindon families need a place independent of the council run Social Services Department.
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The Swindon Well Woman Centre at the Health Hydro in Milton Road nearly closed six years ago when Swindon Council cut off its grant. Fundraising and financial support from the Community Fund has kept it afloat but this ends in March and the volunteers who manage the organisation are facing a major challenge in maintaining the centre's wide range of services, writes Marlene Wheeler, chair of the management committee.
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A West Swindon environmental group is being encouraged by BT to tell people about itself.
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A unique record of the town discovered just over two years ago will be revealed in a free exhibition at the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery until 16 May.
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Following Swindon Borough Council's decision-making body, the Cabinet, on Wednesday 4 February, the minority Conservative Party administration has sent a letter to the Minister of State for Local Government, Nick Raynsford MP.
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Just over a year ago a computer somewhere on the planet sent an automatic e-mail to Phil Rashid in Westlea and Maria Ithnin in Malaysia suggesting they had something in common. Eleven months later they were married and Phil is preparing to leave Britain for a new life in the Far East.
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'We hate it ­ but that's not enough to stop it,' says councillor Central area councillor David Nash has been critical of the ill considered decision by Swindon Council's planning committee last October to give outline planning permission for the commercial development of the derelict Mechanics' Institute. He believes it's a decision which will haunt the town. Here he looks at the proposals put forward to build a hotel on top of the building.
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Work on the first of the two secondary schools to serve North Swindon will start this summer. Hreod Parkway School headteacher Andrew Fleet describes the progress behind the scenes to create educational facilities for the future.
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Think Floyd are now in their Eighth year of presenting this extraordinary tribute to Pink Floyd - they have managed to faithfully re-create the atmosphere, visual magnitude, and musical genius of one of the world's most legendary rock phenomena.
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Work by children at Windmill Hill School, Freshbrook is to become a centrepiece of an exhibition at a new education resource centre to be launched by the world famous Courtauld Institute at Somerset House in London on 5 February.
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Plans are moving forward for the development of the area between the town and the M4 motorway known as the Southern Development Area, or Front Garden. However Charmian Spickernell of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), asks, how will people from West Swindon and from Blagrove access the Front Garden and the proposed railway station?
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Following last May's splendid and successful tenth festival, plans are now well underway for the eleventh Swindon Festival of Literature, 1 -15 May 2004.
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BBC Points West weather presenter Richard Angwin was on hand recently to help launch Switch On Swindon!, a competition sponsored by RWE Innogy running throughout 2004 to find the townšs most energy efficient community.
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