THREE local businesses, Chipside Ltd in Brinkworth, Bath ASU in Corsham and Alvan Branch Development Company Ltd in Crudwell have received Queens Awards for Innovation and International Trade, among 200 businesses honoured this spring.

Swindon Women’s Aid, which runs a support line for women experiencing or at risk of domestic abuse, is opening a shop to help fund its work.

A new group is starting next month to help people who suffer from Arthritis.

​CLIMATE change protestors stormed into Swindon Borough Council to interrupt a mayor making ceremony and call on the council to declare a climate emergency.

The skies above the Royal International Air Tattoo will turn red, white and green this summer.

A PAEDOPHILE who was spared jail last year has now been stopped from doing an unpaid work order – for his own safety.

SWINDON town centre will be given a thorough spring clean next week.

FRIENDS and family of a much-missed Royal Wootton Bassett mum and wife will be among those helping to turn Lydiard Park pink this weekend.

NHS commissioners should step in and prevent IMH patients’ suffering, Swindon politicians have urged.

A TAW Hill Practice patient yesterday called on IMH to "get its act together".

HEDGE fund bosses at a Swindon-based foreign exchange trading scheme have hit back, after investors took the company to the High Court.

MENTAL health waiting times are getting worse and there aren't enough support workers, a county GP said.

GETTING prescribed a walk in a park instead of a pot of pills could become a more common phenomenon in Swindon GP surgeries.

WILTSHIRE Police say a 15-year-old boy has been taken to hospital after receiving an injury to his head.

1 The Palladian grandeur of Grade I Listed Lydiard House - www.lydiardpark.org.uk – easily makes it the finest building in the borough of Swindon. It is the centrepiece of Lydiard Park, which is itself excellent. A house is known to have existed on the site as long ago as the Medieval period, its current appearance dates back to remodelling in the 17th and 18th centuries. The superbly-curated house is packed with artistic treasures, furniture and other relics of its long history.

Graham Carter wants us all to get on our bikes.

A TRAIL of blood has been left on a doorstep in what appears to be the aftermath of a serious assault.

Review of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin at Theatre Royal Bath, by Marion Sauvebois

EMERGENCY services are racing to the scene of a crash on the A419.

A MAN'S ankle was broken in a hit-and-run near Marlborough.