A sea of brightly-coloured roses made using recycled aluminium cans is now blanketing a hospice garden. A thousand of the ornaments have been used to make up a new display at Prospect Hospice in Wroughton, near Swindon. Every rose was handmade at a workshop in Cornwall and sponsored by the […]
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A new dig is due to start at a mammoth graveyard that featured in a David Attenborough documentary. New excavation work will begin early in 2024 at the quarry near Swindon, where remains of multiple steppe mammoths were found in 2019. It was one of the UK’s most significant Palaeolithic […]
Former Chelsea assistant manager Jody Morris is sacked by Swindon Town after just over three months in charge with League Two club missing out on securing a play-off place Swindon Town have sacked former Chelsea assistant manager Jody Morris Morris was in charge for just over three months and oversaw […]
An exotic species of bird has been spotted at a popular country park. Rose-ringed parakeets originally come from Africa and south Asia – but they have been using nest sites in trees at Swindon’s Coate Water Park. It is thought the wild British population of the birds first appeared in […]
A solar panel park capable of producing enough electricity to power a small town is being proposed. The 40-year scheme near Minety, Swindon, would produce enough electricity for 2,700 homes, according to developers Ecotricity Generation Limited. The company said it would also help towards the government’s 2050 net zero carbon […]
Tankers are removing sewage from the Haydon End Sewer Pumping Station Waste water is leaking into a river due to a burst sewer. Thames Water said initial investigations had found sewage spilling into Lydiard Brook and River Ray following the incident near Swindon on Monday evening. Tankers worked through the […]
A D-day veteran’s legacy is helping to fund an engineering student’s ambition to work in some of the most isolated and hostile environments in the world. Matthew Veale, 26, from Swindon, is the first student to be sponsored by the Mission Aviation Fellowship [MAF]. MAF fly aid, medical supplies and […]
Swindon Town striker Harry McKirdy hit out at Port Vale’s supporters, claiming they targeted him with bottles, lighters and coins before ‘hitting and kicking’ him and his team-mates during a post-match pitch invasion. Darrell Clarke’s Port Vale won 6-5 on penalties against Swindon to progress to the League Two play-off […]