SWINDON schools face a bill of nearly £4m in equal pay settlements.

SMALL business owners have claimed the council is adding ‘insult to injury’ by raising parking charges again.

SWINDON Music Festival will be flooding the town with song and music next week.

Swindon Town sign Liverpool full-back Stephen Darby on-loan until the end of the season.

FAMILIES living near a bus depot in Swindon have called for an end to late-night noise.

Liana Sinclair will be throwing herself out of a plane next weekend to thank the hospice that cared for her sister before she died of a rare disease.

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STAND shoulder to shoulder with us this summer and raise money for Prospect Hospice.

CHER Sawyer, the lady who has been the driving force for more than 25 years behind the Threshold charity which looks after Swindon’s homeless, is moving on to work with the town’s youth.

WILTSHIRE Police are excellent at reducing crime, good at policing and value for money after an assessment by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC).

700+ runners and walkers raise thousands for Breakthrough Breast Cancer

THE MOTHER of a teenager who was violently attacked has been asked by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to take part in a review of the support available to victims of crime.

TWO alleyways in the town centre are to be gated off to stop urinating, assaults, drug-dealing and drug-taking by late night revellers.

COUNCILLORS were urged last night to stop playing party politics over the wi-fi scheme as it could damage the future of town.

PUPILS will be keeping an eye on their teachers in a bid to reduce their school’s carbon footprint.

FROM next month Swindon Council will operate a one-stop-shop for all public enquiries after announcing they will moving out of Premier House.

During the 19th century the Great Western Railway, in the rapidly expanding town of New Swindon, attracted workers from far and wide. Robert Wattleworth from the Isle of Man worked as a railway labourer before becoming licensee at the Falcon Inn on Westcott Place; his wife Jane was born in Carlisle. But the Falcon Inn was a mere stopping off point for the wandering Wattleworth family.

A man who told a nurse he was going to kill a police officer has admitted intentionally causing her harassment, alarm or distress.

RIDGEWAY School is the first in the country to run a course encouraging pupils to campaign on issues that matter to them.

MK Dons move to within five points of play-off rivals Swindon with a hard-fought win at Stadium MK.