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Sarah Turnnidge - BBC News, West of England December 15, 2024 at 4:51 AM Two people have been arrested after "large-scale disorder" at an events venue in central Swindon.
If Swindon Borough Council is to join up with another local authority in order to gain more powers, it may look towards the M4 corridor rather than the south. The government has published a white ...
More than 4,000 tonnes of food scraps were collected in Swindon in the last year [Swindon Borough Council] Residents have helped their local council save more than £500,000 after putting out ...
The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Swindon sat in a defensible position atop a limestone hill. It is referred to in the 1086 Domesday Book as Suindune, [2] believed to be derived from the Old English words "swine" and "dun" meaning "pig hill" or possibly Sweyn's hill, Sweyn being a Scandinavian name akin to Sven and English swain, meaning a young man.
The 2023 Swindon Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect councillors to Swindon Borough Council in Wiltshire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections across England. There were 19 of the 57 seats on the council up for election.
The Swindon Advertiser is a daily tabloid newspaper, published in Swindon. The newspaper was founded in 1854, and had an audited average daily circulation at the end of 2017 of 8,828. [2] It claims to have been the UK's first provincial 'penny-paper'. [3] It is owned by Newsquest, the UK subsidiary of U.S.-based Gannett Company.
More than 15,000 patients have now been seen at three new diagnostic centres since they opened, according to an NHS trust. Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said it was expected about ...
On 21 April 2008, the BBC South Today Oxford opt-out service was renamed as BBC Oxford News (referred to on-screen as BBC Oxford). New titles and graphics were introduced as part of an on-screen overhaul across the BBC's national, international and regional news services. From 29 October 2012, this was re-branded back to BBC South Today.