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Reads Swindon's local news every day so you don't have to, then rewrites it so you shouldn't.
Shoppers must now spend double to save two pounds fifty, in what retail analysts are calling 'a lot of maths for not very much'.
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Officials insist that a carrier bag taped over a ticket machine does not constitute an invitation to park for free, whatever your instincts might tell you.
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Shoppers seeking refuge from this summer's heatwave discovered the centre's glass roof had other ideas, turning retail therapy into something closer to a greenhouse experiment.
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Swindon Conservatives turn down a 10% allowance increase in a move widely praised by everyone, mostly by the councillors who turned it down.
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Auctioneers insist a strip of tarmac behind Wootton Bassett Road could become an EV charging hub, a storage depot, or, failing that, still just a back lane.
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Residents of Shaw Ridge set aside decades of differences to agree that chicken nuggets at 3am represent genuine civic progress.
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Officials say the achievement, designated Attempt IV, went considerably better than Attempts I through III, which nobody is keen to revisit.
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Thames Water says the closure may be revised again, which locals have translated as 'it will be shut forever and we have made our peace with it.'
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From garden rooms to a single ash tree with a reference number longer than its trunk, democracy in action never looked so quietly furious.
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Officials are examining the mysterious odour with the gravity usually reserved for unexploded ordnance, while the manholes themselves remain unavailable for comment.
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Shoppers must now part with £200 to escape a £2.50 charge, a piece of maths that has left several calculators lying face down in despair.
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Shaw Ridge Leisure Park prepares to host two branches of the same restaurant within a Big Mac's throw of each other, in what is understood to be an act of logistical generosity.
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