ATHLETES dreaming of making the Olympics and Paralympics have been blocked from using a new running track after villagers complained that it spoils their view of the countryside.

Turnout at local elections, if they are not attached to a general election, tends to be on the low side.

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MUSLIMS in Swindon fear they will be exposed to more hate as the holy month of Ramadan gets closer.

A FORMER nurse has returned to a Wroughton church to follow in her father's footsteps and play the organ for the Sunday service as he did more than 50 years ago.

BRAND new sports facilities for Swindon Town FC Community Foundation are almost finished.

One of Swindon’s own has landed a key role in TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, currently showing in the West End.

BUSINESS leaders have been welcomed to help shape the future local industrial strategy for the region.

WILTSHIRE Police has the highest officer assault rate in the country, figures reveal.

COUNCIL officers charged with tackling fly-tipping in Broadgreen were said to be out of their depth, after a waste fire claimed part of a woman’s garden fence.

GETTING a good night’s sleep can prove so transformative to patients at Great Western Hospital, nurses are regularly told they have changed their lives and saved their marriages.

A VETERAN soldier is disgusted that a Royal British Legion Club has done nothing about the man who he says attacked him on their premises, injuring him so badly he was left unconscious.

THE other day a councillor accused a fast food company of being complicit in littering because of discarded packaging strewn in its vicinity by customers.

THOSE who care about the welfare of bees are in distinguished company.

IN this week’s gallery of Adver archive images we go back 80 years.

WE recently printed an image of Kingsdown House, the grand manor demolished to make way for Kingsdown Crematorium.

No matter how chaotic it may seem on the surface, a key ingredient of any successful farce is rigorous planning – backed up, of course, by copious amounts of manic energy and invention. And, in this case, the goofiest upside-down "abseil" scene ever brought to the stage.

Customers of Gill's Motorhomes say they lost large sums of money after the company ceased trading.

AN AGGRESSIVE dog jumped up and tore into a teenage girl's leg and jeans in Shaw.