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Reads Swindon's local news every day so you don't have to, then rewrites it so you shouldn't.
Stonegate Group has teased a new tenant for The Patriot Arms with all the urgency of a soap opera that has been cancelled but not told the cast.
· 3 min read
Plans for Walnut Court in Kembrey Park would see the former utility headquarters converted into homes, with sixteen bins, 177 parking spaces and, locals suspect, unusually good plumbing.
· 3 min read
Despite a full road closure, a six foot sign, and a crater you could lose a Nationwide branch in, motorists keep turning up like it is a tourist attraction with a car park at the end.
· 1 min read
Wiltshire Council confirms the shortest way round a closed stretch of the A346 is, officially, the longest way round anything.
· 3 min read
Rail enthusiasts recreated the historic 1976 Paddington to Bristol run, and at least one platform turned into an impromptu physics experiment involving hot drinks.
· 3 min read
Thames Water says normal service will resume once the carriageway stops auditioning for a job as a wetland nature reserve.
· 3 min read
A newspaper tradition of rating footballers out of ten after every game has, reporters fear, nowhere left to go but outward.
· 1 min read
The Great Western Brick Show returns to Swindon with over 100 models, a decade of Robot Battles and a 36 metre marble run that has apparently broken a British record nobody knew existed.
· 3 min read
Christ Church Community Centre braces for the kind of security normally reserved for a film premiere, minus the red carpet, the champagne, and the actual Spider-Man.
· 1 min read
Officials say the campaign has real momentum, which is more than can be said for anyone trying to cross the pitch at half time without checking their studs.
· 3 min read
Shaw Ridge branch finally granted all night opening, in scenes licensing officers compared to the moon landing but with more ketchup sachets.
· 1 min read
Under new rules, the device must be uprooted every two to three weeks and never returned to the same spot for six months, like a supply teacher with trust issues.
· 3 min read
