FIRST it was roundabouts, and now Swindon is facing a double assault on its reputation – this time through music.

Political comedian and impressionist Rory Bremner cut the ribbon on the £1.2m state-of-the-art CT scanner at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital yesterday.

PROSPECT Hospice is saying thanks a million to its charity shop customers after raising a fifth of its fundraising target for the year.

Little London Court is today a complex of smart, new offices, but the area once had the dubious reputation of being the meanest street in Old Swindon.

Great Western Hospital could lose £2 million a year under a new £20 billion efficiency savings bid by the NHS over the next four years.

A 36-YEAR-OLD man plundered tens of thousands of pounds of his elderly mum’s money to fund a lavish lifestyle.

THE search for missing European eagle owl Megan was feared to have come to a tragic end when a Swindon bird lover reported her dead.

SWINDON has been identified as one of 86 repossession hotspots which will be receiving extra Government money.

A former convict who claimed he found a sawn-off shotgun when he went to relieve himself in the woods has been jailed for four years.

WOMEN in Swindon are being invited to do something amazing by ‘going round again’ at Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life at Lydiard Park.

THREE generations of the Clifford family – who own the Blunsdon House Hotel – were presented with a plaque by three generations of the Arkell’s family to commemorate 50 years of doing business together.

Changes to the way recycling takes place in Cheltenham should lead to a reduction of lorries in residential areas.

CHILDREN in Need’s Pudsey Bear was spotted during a recent farmers’ market at Swindon’s Wharf Green.

SWINDON Council is looking for volunteers for its Advocacy and Activity Buddy Scheme, aimed at getting more disabled, elderly and those with low self-esteem into sport.

TIME has stood still on Drove Road for the last 30 years.

A MAN has been warned he faces a jail term after admitting being involved in the commercial supply of cocaine.

SWINDON’S jobseekers can spend some time by volunteering at Pentylands Country Park.

There will be a coffee morning and sale at All Saints church hall in Southbrook Street on Saturday 27th March at 10am.

Thames Water completes a £10m project to protect homes in Swindon from flooding with sewage.

RESILIENCE, recovery and reputation will be at the centre of a conference on the link between staff mental health and productive business.