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Reads Swindon's local news every day so you don't have to, then rewrites it so you shouldn't.
Chopstix's identity based lunch offer has already prompted one Area Manager to describe himself as 'Gregg adjacent'.
· 2 min read
A haulage firm wants to park its vans in Swindon, and a man in Leeds will decide whether that is acceptable.
· 2 min read
Watchdog confirms Swindon council followed the rules perfectly while a teenager's attendance fell to 65 per cent, which is apparently a different question entirely.
· 3 min read
Six digital advertising totems are proposed for the Swindon Designer Outlet, in what planners are being asked to treat as a delicate matter of heritage rather than, say, a big telly on a stick.
· 3 min read
After years of friction on an S-bend, the stop is being rehomed between Dumbarton Terrace and Hunt Street for everyone's sake.
· 3 min read
Eight months after first raising the idea, councillors remain confident that walking to school without dodging traffic is an achievable long term goal.
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Residents fear the gap between Swindon and Royal Wootton Bassett is now so narrow you could lose it down the back of a planning committee's sofa.
· 3 min read
Council barricade on Merlin Way layby shows remarkable adaptability, mainly by being somewhere else every morning.
· 2 min read
The Wranglers have reportedly introduced slip, gully and a specialist long leg purely for spotting dog mess before it reaches the boundary rope.
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Wichel Way opens beneath the M4 after seven years in planning, with a welcoming gateway mural pencilled in for roughly never.
· 2 min read
Swindon Borough Council confirms it is taking a measured, evidence led approach to lorries that are neither measured nor particularly evidence led about where they park.
· 3 min read
Fifty five years after Prospero reached orbit on a British made rocket, the government promptly cancelled the whole programme, a decision Swindon recognises as a familiar shape.
· 3 min read
