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Outdoor science at Orchid Vale Primary

Pupils explore eco-habitat as part of BBC School's Do One Thing project

Youngsters at Orchid Vale Primary School spent a week exploring the school’s extensive eco-habitat in Haydon End as part of the BBC School’s Do One Thing project. Reception children went ...

Swindon identified as Pathfinder mutual

Community Services in Swindon to pioneer national initiative

Community Services in Swindon will pioneer a national initiative which recognizes that frontline staff have the local know-how on the best use of resources.. Swindon is one of 12 projects, selected...

Samaritans need people to ensure work can continue

Call for volunteers to sustain essential support service

“Listening to someone who is perhaps depressed, worried, frightened and/or suicidal and who doesn’t know where to turn to, is perhaps the most valuable thing we can do for a fellow human b...

Swindon Cycles Superstore

With 250 bikes on show. The price is right, the parking is free, the choice is yours. Parts, repairs, accessories, back up stock.

Last Swindon play area launched

Shaw Ridge play park before spending cuts hammer comes down

Thanks to the Labour government, twelve of Swindon’s old play areas have been renewed in the last two years. But soon after the coalition was formed in May, unspent money allocated to the counci...

Swindon hosts successful summer visit by Chernobyl children

Belarus children spend action-packed four weeks with host families thanks to Chernobyl Children In Need

A group of eleven Belarus children aged between 7 and 16 have spent another action- packed four weeks in Swindon, thanks to the Chernobyl Children in Need host families. Richard Goddard from Old Town...

Swindon company sets out to root out the rogue tenants

TenantVet will wage war on tenants who rip off home owners. British lettings industry could save millions

TenantVet has said ‘enough is enough.’ Their ground breaking database will wage war on tenants who rip off home owners. British lettings industry could save millions says a ne...

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Final comments needed on Grange Park homes

Objections to 175 houses off Hook Street have to be submitted by Tuesday 31 August

Comments and objections to an application by Swindon planning consultancy DPDS on behalf of Primegate Properties (Hooknorth) Ltd. to build 175 houses with associated open space and landscaping on a gr...

Swindon launches appeal for more respite carers

Swindon Borough Council launches poster campaign to promote ‘Home and Away' Scheme

A picnic and fun day on 14 August marked the start of a new recruitment drive to help Swindon children with disabilities have a short break away from home. The Swindon Borough Council ‘Home a...

Swindon-born author booking signing in town 28 August

Justin Stares at Waterstones to talk about and sign dramatic first book based on true firsthand accounts and diaries of world-weary foreign correspondent

Swindon-born freelance journalist Justin Stares has written a dramatic first book about a rags-to-riches fairytale that went tragically wrong. You can meet him on Saturday 28 August at Waterstones boo...

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Swindon disability respite centre on horizon

Major drive to build Hop, Skip and Jump centre at Lydiard Park

Swindon Town FC has made Hop, Skip and Jump its charity of the year, so has Lydiard Millicent Primary School. There are collecting tins in every Arkells Pub, individuals have taken on the three ...

6th form plan for West Swindon

Swindon schools to offer 6th form courses to West and North Swindon pupils

Now that pupils who start Year 9 in September will be expected to stay in some form of full time education or training until they reach the age of 18, Swindon schools are considering ways of providing...

Blood wanted in North Swindon

Orchid Vale Primary School to hold donor sessions from November

The NHS Blood Donor service has agreed to hold blood donation sessions at Orchid Vale Primary School in Haydon End, North Swindon. The first session is programmed to start from 4pm on Thursday 4 No...