Swindon handed yellow warning for rain, in case residents had somehow missed the rain
The Met Office has confirmed, to several decimal places, that it is going to be wet, windy and then slightly less wet, before being wet again.
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The day's events, more or less as they happened.
Barriers installed to stop overnight lorry parking praised for their flexibility
Council barricade on Merlin Way layby shows remarkable adaptability, mainly by being somewhere else every morning.
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Council confirms drivers must still pay to park next to machines wearing bin bags
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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Back lane with 'great potential' goes under the hammer for £1, potential yet to materialise
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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Swindon reaches rare unanimous consensus over value for a 24 hour McDonald's
Residents of Shaw Ridge set aside decades of differences to agree that chicken nuggets at 3am represent genuine civic progress.
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Thames Water launches investigation into Swindon smell that everyone on Winchester Close had already identified
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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Burst water main turns busy Swindon road into unofficial lake, ducks seen scouting location
Thames Water says normal service will resume once the carriageway stops auditioning for a job as a wetland nature reserve.
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McDonald's wins right to serve chicken nuggets to Swindon at 3am after years of dogged campaigning
Shaw Ridge branch finally granted all night opening, in scenes licensing officers compared to the moon landing but with more ketchup sachets.
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