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THE photographs on this page were taken 43 years ago The black-robed at RAF Lyneham. them is Archbishopman who dominates Makarios, President Cyprus, who had of just fled a coup organised against him by the Greece at the time. military cabal which ran RAF Lyneham was one of several backdrops against most tense politicalwhich one of the decade’s and whose impact standoffs played out, is Makarios had beenfelt to this day.

British newspapers a familiar face in for many years, been the driving architect of Cyprus’having independence from British rule.

Various treaties and the fact that was a member Cyprus of the that when the coup Commonwealth meant happened in 1974, RAF was sent to the rescue was officially recognisedthe president, who as leader.

An Adver reporter and photographer dispatched to the were base.

We said: “President Archbishop Makarios, who fled Cyprus yesterday with the the RAF, landed at Lyneham today help of .

“Earlier yesterday an RAF helicopter had picked up Makarios from Paphos as insurgent forces were town. He was flown closing in on the to “The Archbishop Malta. is reported to be Archbishop Makarios political asylum seeking in Britain. meets the press; and, right, his arrival “His ultimate destination at RAF Lyneham is believed to be New York, where the launching the coup.” emergency session. Security Council is in The President Archbishop “Mr Daniel Ennals, spent time in London, in talks representing the Foreign Office, with British Prime met Minister Harold arrival at Lyneham.the Archbishop on his Wilson, before heading New York and the for “Britain is still United Nations. at The Greek officers diplomatic efforts the centre of frantic had control of the today to end the whole of Cyprus, crisis by putting Cyprus but not for pressure on the Within days Turkey, long long.

Athens regime to withdraw unhappy at the 600 Greek officers what it saw as the who are believed disadvantages suffered to be responsible Turkish Cypriots, for invaded the northern by of the island, and part Cyprus remains divided.

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TIME TO CALL IT A DAY? Ten years after deal is signed with Kimmerfields developer, pressure is on for council to cut its losses SEE P2

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Training session raises funding for new wheelchair SCRAPPERS Gym has raised hundreds of pounds towards a £10,500 wheelchair for one of its regulars during a boxing training session.

Charlie Dawson, 22, from Moredon has outgrown the wheelchair he’s had since he was a teen and needs a model with off-road capabilities and powered steering.

The new top-of-the-range wheelchair would stop Charlie being restricted to the pavement and ease the strain on his shoulders from pushing the chair manually.

Gym owner and head coach Paul Rodgers said: “We raised £206 on the night which two people have since matched, tripling our total, and donations are still coming in, it’s brilliant.”

Charlie suffers from a very rare combination of muscular disorders that cause painful involuntary full-body spasms, and ataxia, which affects his speech, balance and co-ordination.

Friends and family are organising more events and Charlie is climbing Pen Y Fan in the Brecon Beacons with a team of helpers.

To donate call Charlie’s mum Jackie on 07545 879804.

N Alan Reid, Charlie Dawson and Paul Rodgers at the fundraising session

Picture: THOMAS KELSEY

Demands for action on delayed project Chris Humphreys

chris.humphreys@newsquest.co.uk @Adver_Chris

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TODAY: Today will be fine and dry, with plenty of warm sunshine and light winds through the day.

TOMORROW: Tuesday will be sunny initially, with thunderstorms into the afternoon and evenining, giving the risk of hail. Mainly dry and bright on Wednesday and Thursday, with the odd shower possible.

LABOUR has called on the council to cut ties with the developer in charge of delivering the stalled Kimmerfields project.

Opposition councillors tabled a motion at Thursday’s full council meeting expressing frustration that there had been no private sector investment in the flagship scheme since outline planning permission was granted in 2012.

In 2011, Muse Developments outlined a vision for new streets surrounded by retail and leisure space, a hotel, a new bus interchange, offices and new homes. So far only a multi-storey car park, a health centre and a block of assisted living flats have been delivered.

Arguing it was time for the Conservative administration to find a way to terminate the agreement, Jane Milner-Barry (Lab - Old

Conservatives says it’s too soon to make a decision

Town) pointed out that the only parts of the project to have come to fruition were funded by public money, not private investment.

“Our development agreement with Muse was signed nearly ten years ago,” she said.

“Do we have the shiny new office blocks we were promised? Do we have beautiful public spaces and restaurants and cafes? Do we have houses and flats providing high quality city centre living?

“Has our dreary bus station been replaced by something people might not want to avoid?

“Obviously not. All we have is a building site and a pretty picture on a hoarding.”

Coun Milner-Barry acknowledged the delays in securing compulsory purchase orders but she said Muse should have spent that time assembling the necessary finances to proceed.

“It appears that none of that has been done,” she added. “To all appearances, Muse have given up on Swindon.

“It’s now time to consider whether to choose another business partner or to explore alternative ways of achieving our plans.”

Garry Perkins, the cabinet member for regeneration, said the opposition was proposing to make a decision without all the relevant information before them.

He said: “This motion is premature. There are financial, technical and legal reasons why all that information is not available yet.

“We should hold this debate after the detailed report on the issue has been brought to the September cabinet meeting when all options can be considered.”

Seeking to reassure councillors that a delay did not imply failure, he pledged “Kimmerfields will be delivered”. The council voted to amend Labour’s motion and delay any decision until September.

Later this week, the council is due to showcase its masterplan for the town centre at a three-day public event.

However, the suggestion that the future of the Kimmerfields development will not be fully understood before September will leave question marks around the extent to which it will provide business, and residents, with a full and honest picture of what is achievable.

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Och aye the noo, Luke

Thief is sent to jail N Luke Graham

with Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson when out campaigning for the 2017 general election

SWINDON: Faulty traffic lights at the bottom on the Penzance Drive bus lane caused traffic chaos along Wootton Bassett Road for two days.

Drivers found themselves queuing for 30 minutes or more in the rush hour on Thursday. Many reported the traffic lights were staying at red for some time after buses came through the junction and joined the road. A Swindon Borough Council spokesman said on Friday that a a temporary fix had been carried out until a more permanent repair can be made.

Come for a chat

PURTON: The parish council is offering residents the opportunity to chat oneto-one with councillors at a session in the village hall on September 2. The session runs from 10am to noon.

Help to save lives

CRICKLADE: Give blood and potentially save a life at Cricklade Town Hall on Friday July 28.

Anyone can come along and donate blood in the hall from 1pm to 4pm and then from 4.50pm to 7.15pm.. For more information, visit blood.co.uk

tyilmaz@newswilts.co.uk @TanyaNewsWilts

N Luke, fourth from left, with his fellow newly elected MPs and Ruth Davidson (centre)

Former Dorcan pupil is an MP in Scotland erendum. It was from that which made me want to run in the 2015 election.

“Unfortunately I didn’t win but I kept campaigning and decided that when the 2017 general election was announced, I would stand again.”

In a landslide victory in the election last month, Luke managed to claim the seat from the Scottish Nationalist Party - almost doubling his share of the vote compared to 2015.

And while Luke, who describes himself as a “lib-

SWINDON: A 40-year-old man has been committed to prison for 13 weeks after pleading guilty to a string of theft offences.

Bradley Atkinson from Knowsley Road trespassed in a building on Prospect Place and stole cash at between April 14 and April 18, then stole a man’s credit card between May 13 and May 20. He failed to surrender to custody at Swindon Magistrates Court on June 7. For these offences, Atkinson must also pay a victim services surcharge of £115.

He also went on a three-month crime spree earlier this year, stealing more than £1,200 worth of goods from various shops.

Lights cause chaos

Tanya Yilmaz

WHEN former Dorcan School drama star Luke Graham moved on to pastures new, little did he realise that he would be flying the flag for Swindon in the world of politics.

But now the 32-year-old is hoping to inspire teenagers to show that no matter what their background is, they can achieve their aspirations — a month into his new role as an MP for the Ochil and South Perthshire in Scotland.

Luke, who grew up in Eldene, was a founding member of the Dorcan Performing Arts Group back in his drama heyday and while he was a keen performer, he always had an interest in politics.

After a whirlwind career in finance, taking him to all corners of the world with work, it was while he was based in New York that Luke decided to move back to the UK around the same time of the Scottish Referendum in 2014.

“The issues raised were very close to my heart and I didn’t want the two countries to separate,” Luke explained.“I took a job in the finance department at Marks & Spencer and started to get a better work-life balance so I could be out campaigning for the ref-

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eral Conservative”, is busy working away to represent his constituency in Westminster, Swindon is never too far away in his mind and he often reminisces about his time in the town and at Dorcan.

“Drama got a lot of people engaged at school – many who may not have been before and that is why the performing arts group was set up,” he said. “There was a big gap for extra curriculum clubs at Dorcan at the time and it slowly grew in popularity. It is fantastic

to see it is still going today and it is great to see that it is still strong with lots of people as members. I was very lucky to have the support of Gina Musty as well as Nigel, who has since sadly passed away, in setting it up and build something that has lasted.

“One thing I would say to people, especially teenagers, is that it doesn’t matter where you are born, it matters where you want to be. Because I have lived in a few different places, the makings of a home is the easy bit but I have always felt very strongly about being British and my parents still live in Swindon so when I go to see them, I feel like I’m going home.”

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Getting to the source of learning PUPILS from Meadowpark School explored the River Cole at Coleshill Estates earlier this month.

With the help of Liza Dibble, from the National Trust, the Year 3 students spent some time looking around the Coleshill Estates.

Teacher Alexia Davison said she chose to take her students to the river because her class has spent the term exploring the journey of a river

from source to sea and had written poetry and and created power point presentations about the worlds’ rivers.

She said: “This is the perfect way to compliment our term topic of Rivers.

“The best way to learn about them is to actually get in and experience the river itself rather than reading about them,” said Alexia.

She led students along

the River Cole pointing out different habitats, offering a demonstration of the Old Mill along the river, and then led a water dip where the students were invited to carefully seek out the river’s various residents.

The Cricklade school is a member of the National Trust and staff said they were grateful for the many wonderful National Trust-led experiences at Coleshill Estates this year.

N Croft Primary school biennial fun day

Crowds out in force for the fair

THE Old Town community came out in force to support a popular school fair on Saturday.

Croft Primary School’s annual event is renowned for drawing in crowds each and every year and the gathering over the weekend was no different.

From throwing wet sponges at teachers to having a go at some arts and crafts, there was something for everyone at the fair which was organised by the PTA. The active group of parents

raise thousands of pounds every year for things to benefit pupils from helping to pay for a mini bus to buying iPads to help with learning.

Claire Furnell is the chairman of the PTA and hopes the fair pushes the group over their target of raising £7,000 this year alone.

“We do lots of things throughout the year and this fair is just one of them,” she said. “We try to make it inclusive and encourage parents to come along, enjoy themselves and

be a part of the PTA. “Everyone seems to enjoy themselves.”

Despite a little drizzle early on, there was a host of outdoor games and stalls including a bouncy castle.

Charlotte Phillips, 40 brought along her two sons Albie, eight and Bertie, five, to the fair.

“We come along every year to support the school and it is something the kids love to do,” she said.

Trust defiant on criticisms Chris Humphreys

chris.humphreys@newsquest.co.uk @Adver_Chris THE team behind Swindon’s ambitious museum and art gallery bid has hit back at claims of foul play.

Opponents of the proposals, which would see a new state-ofthe-art facility built on the former Wyvern Theatre car park, have taken to social media in recent days to accuse campaign volunteers of bullying people into supporting their plans.

Posters have claimed that members of the public are being pressured into signing postcards as part of a move to build up evidence of widespread support.

Others suggested that the campaign was leaving out key details around location choice and cost to guarantee a supportive response. One poster wrote: “This is not consultation or consent, it’s bullying.”

But news of the claims has prompted a defiant response from the Museum and Art Gallery Trust, which is leading the drive for public support.

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Museum campaigners dismiss bullying claims

Lottery Fund due to be submitted later this year, of which evidence of consultation and public backing is a key factor, the trust is keen to defend its approach.

Rod Hebden, director of the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery Trust, said: “We were really disappointed to read on social media that some people have been accusing our volunteers, who give up their free time to talk about the plans at local fetes, of forcing postcards on people or bullying them. That is untrue, and sadly it is also disrespectful of those volunteers.

“They believe the plans will bring huge benefits to the town we all care about, and they are enthusiastic when they tell people about them, but they are equally keen to listen and debate.

“Almost everyone we meet also wants Swindon to win a bid for £10m lottery funding, but when

now and again someone tells us they can’t support it, we treat them and their arguments with respect, and agree to differ.

“What people say to us actually makes a difference.

“We have been doing the best we can within our resources as a charity to inform our community of our plans, encourage them to respond, hear their ideas, and use those ideas to develop our plans further.

“We will continue to do that until the bid goes in this autumn.

Why wouldn’t we? After all, it’s a project that’s going to benefit Swindon people.

“The fact that we have had more than 700 additional expressions of support through various channels in the past week alone suggests that there is genuine growing support for a new museum and art gallery on the site near the Wyvern Theatre.”

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Hamster got stuck

HIGHWORTH: Specialist firefighters were called to help rescue a hamster trapped in a pipe yesterday.

The fire service received the call from a family in Highworth at around 10.30am to remove a pet hamster who had been stuck in a pipe for some time.

However before the fire crew arrived the owner called to say the hamster had been successfully enticed from the pipe using a sugary snack on a piece of string.

Landscapes shown

OLD TOWN: A new exhibition opens next week showcasing Swindon Museum and Art Gallery’s best landscape paintings.

The exhibition, The Lie of the Land, includes paintings by Christopher Nevinson, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Mary Fedden.

It opens on Wednesday, July 19, and runs until Saturday, November 18.

Entrance is free.

Painting therapy

Thieves raid eight sheds on allotment N Roy Strange was one of the Churchward allotment holders whose shed was broken into

Tom Seaward

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WHEN thieves cut the locks on Roy Strange’s allotment shed, they didn’t just take a couple of deckchairs.

They took a prize pot of tomato seeds from China that produce a pendulous yellow fruit you will never find on the greengrocers’ shelves.

Roy, 36, is the site supervisor at Churchward Allotments on Northern Road. The Pinehurst man has had a plot on the leafy Rodbourne site for around four years.

Thieves raided eight sheds in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The men attempted to steal gardening implements and tools, including spades, hoes and a petrol strimmer.

Many of the items have since been recovered by police. But Roy hasn’t yet heard whether his blue pot of yellow tomato seeds – which were sent in error by supplier King

Gardening gear and rare seeds are stolen Seeds – is among the recovered stash.

The car mechanic said has now been forced to take a harder-line on security on his plot.

“I have put better staples on my shed door,” he said.

Roy said he thought that the timing of the thefts – early on a Sunday morning – is a clue to the thieves’ motive.

“I believe they were going to take the tools to sell them at a car boot sale,” he said.

Roy said allotment-holders

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had been left shocked by the attacks: “They have been angry about it.

“But at least we stand a chance of getting the tools back.”

Dave Waldron, 72, had a mower taken during the raid.

The pensioner, who has had an allotment for over two years, said: “New, that mower will probably have been worth £120. To replace it you’re going to be talking a hundred quid.

“All they were after was what was in the sheds.”

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Owners of the broken-into sheds have replaced their locks. But Dave suggests that even Roy’s lock might not stop a determined thief.

“There are all these batterypowered tools on the market now. You could be through these locks easy-peasy.”

Swindon Borough Council officers have told site supervisor Roy that they will replace the lock on the allotment’s gates.

Wiltshire Police said they were called by a member of the public at around 3.30am on Sunday, reporting two men pushing a trolley full of garden tools close to the allotments.

When they arrived, the officers could see no sign of the men. However, they recovered a number of items near the allotment, including an electric lawnmower, petrol strimmer and hand tools.

Police are appealing for witnesses. Call Wiltshire Police on 101 or anonymously, via Crimestoppers, on 0800 555111.

Addict in court for assault in bookmakers A DRUG addict spat at a member of staff in a Swindon bookmakers after she told him to unplug his phone charger.

Sean Nicholas Little, 27, pleaded guilty to abstracting electricity from the shop on May 1 this year and to assaulting the member of staff.

Prosecutor Pauline Lambert told Swindon magistrates that Little had gone into William Hill bookmakers on Rodbourne Road and plugged his phone charger into a socket near a gaming machine.

The member of staff asked him several times to take the charger out and when he did not do so she went over to the socket and bent down to take out the charger herself, at which point Little elbowed her out of the way.

He then removed the charger himself and spat at the woman before leaving the shop.

The woman told police she had spittle down her clothing and felt disgusted.

Richard Williams, defending, said Little of

Shaftesbury Avenue, Calne was a regular customer at the William Hill shop, where he had placed many bets and had often plugged in his charger.

Little did not accept that he spat at the woman but said he may have sneezed in her direction.

He was sentenced to two weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, to run alongside his current orders. He was ordered to pay £50 compensation to the member of staff at William Hill.

OLD TOWN: Painter and therapist Dr Susan Carr will talk about her unusual approach to therapy.

The artist, who currently has an exhibition at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, will speak about how she uses painting as a therapy for people living with chronic diseases.

She will speak at the Bath Road gallery on Thursday, July 20, 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

Tickets are £8.

Ambulance meets

WILTSHIRE: Wiltshire Air Ambulance’s annual general meeting will be held at Melksham Town Football Club on Wednesday, July 26, 7pm to 8pm.

Bookings for fair

ELLENDUNE: Bookings are being taken for the annual Craft Fayre and Coffee Morning which will be held at the community centre on Sunday, November 12. To book a table, call 01793 813307.

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Fall in young benefit claimants Roman discoveries centred in town

HOME Bargains, Cross Street Cars and the Cotswold Water Park are just some of the employers on the lookout for staff at Swindon’s Jobcentre Plus.

The vacancies come amid the latest labour market statistics, which have shown a record number of people now in work.

In Swindon there are currently 510 18 to 24-yearolds currently out of work and claiming benefits,

which is a decrease of 100 on last year, and 600 fewer than the same period in 2010.

Overall, the total number of residents in the town claiming employment benefits is 2,655 people, an increase of 850 on last year once the new Universal Credit claimants are taken into account, which includes individuals who may already be in part-time or low-paid employment. However,

this marks a fall of 2,018 claimants since 2010.

Julie Marshall, the Princes Street branch’s work coach manager, said that the Jobcentre was already experiencing a busy summer with a number of employers on the look-out for staff.

“Adzuna has said that Swindon is the fourth best place in the UK for finding a job, which is good news for people who are looking for work,” she said.

Treasure found across county

Josh Layton

newsdesk@swindonadvertiser.co.uk ELEVEN Roman-era finds were made in the borough of Swindon between June and July, with another seven in other parts of Wiltshire, according to the British Museum’s national Portable Antiquities Database.

The county is continuing to prove fertile ground for treasure hunters, with artefacts from the Roman era.

Wheel shards, coins brooches and toy fragments are among the dozens of treasures yielded up by the earth over the past year.

Richard Henry, finds liaison officer for Wiltshire, said: “We record around five thousand objects a year and the vast majority of them are Roman.

“Partially that’s because Romans mass-produced objects on a pretty significant scale.

“They were making coins in the 3rd Century on a scale that’s not surpassed until the 17th Century.”

“Wiltshire has significant numbers of House of Valentinian coins partly because of how prosperous Wiltshire was at the very end of the Roman period,” Richard said.“Around that period you’d need around 7,800 bronze coins for one gold coin so they are very much best seen as small change but it’s often these coins that tell you most about a site.

“The coins are known as grots because they are quite grotty but they can tell us a lot about what is regarded as the fall of the Roman empire.

“We have now recorded more Roman coins for Wiltshire than have been recorded for the whole of north Africa”.

One coin found in the borough of Swindon in April has been donated to the town’s Museum and Art Gallery. Dating from between AD 383 to 387, it has an emperor dragging a captive while advancing holding a standard.

Minted in Rome, the coin declaring GLORIA ROMANORVM is the first of its type recorded on the database.

“It’s very significant because after 378 you don’t see significant quantities of coins coming into this country until 395,” said Richard.

“What it could show is some form of imperial authority, or it

could be that low value coinage reached rural sites by the end of the 4th Century, in Wiltshire especially.”

Another Roman coin dating to the time of the House of Constantine between AD 330 to 340 shows a wolf suckling twins.

SWITCH On To Swindon is holding its next ambassadors evening on Wednesday at the Dick Lovett showroom at 6pm.

Talks and demonstrations are planned and more than 240 businesses have registered to attend.

The business-led marketing initiative has exceeded expectations since its launch in January this year,

smashing its progress target of 200 after signing up 400 businesses and organisations in six months.

As a result, there is now a gathering momentum among the business community around the importance of promoting Swindon outside the confines of the town, which is Switch On To Swindon’s main aim.

The team is now preparing to

N Richard Henry finds liaison officer for Wiltshire “It’s always a pleasure when people bring things in and it’s often these little objects that tell us quite a lot about the county.”

Richard’s book Fifty Finds From Wiltshire is available to buy at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery.

More businesses are switching on move on to the next phase, in which it will aim to harness the positive experiences of the initiative’s ambassadors into a package that can be taken around the UK to spread the Swindon story.

The targeted approach is aimed at particular sectors where the potential for growth and expansion in Swindon has been identified as a goal.

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Man made threats to his neighbour during dispute A DISPUTE between Swindon neighbours that has been going on for years blew up last month and landed one of them in the dock.

Magistrates in Swindon have heard that Scott Thomas, 38, and his older neighbour Benjamin Grierson, who live in flats one above the other at Walton Grange, Bath Road, had been rowing for three or four years.

On June 19 this year, Thomas chased Mr Greirson round the car park at the flats and the police were

called.

Thomas admitted using threatening words or behaviour with intent to cause Benjamin Grierson harassment, alarm or distress.

He also admitted pursuing a course of conduct which amounted to the harassment of Benjamin Grierson in that he was abusive, intimidating and threatening towards him.

Prosecutor Pauline Lambert said after the chase in the car park, in the

presence of a police officer, Thomas had shouted at Mr Grierson: “I am going to make you a promise.

“When I am out you are going to die.”

When interviewed by police, Thomas admitted he had been agitated and angry.

He apologised and said he had arranged to move out of the flat with his wife and two children in August.

Mark Glendenning, representing Thomas, said both men had made

complaints about each other for the last three or four years. The landlord had said they were both as bad as each other.

Chairman of the bench Natalie O’Connell told Thomas there were faults on both sides and the magistrates were passing a more lenient sentence.

Thomas was given a conditional discharge for 18 months and ordered to pay £85 court costs and a victim surcharge of £20.

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Thief sent to prison

CRICKLADE: Marc Few from Parsonage Farm Close in Cricklade has appeared in court to face theft charges before Swindon magistrates.

The 44-year-old indicated a plea of guilty to both charges.

He stole £36 of alcohol from the Morrisons on Dorcan Way on July 4 and hair products and foundation worth a total of £190.74 from Boots, The Chemist and Great Western Way Hospital.

He was committed to a total of 16 weeks in prison and ordered to pay £115 to fund victim services.

Few has also breached community orders in relation to other offences including a burglary charge and a charge of failing to comply with notification requirements.

Fined for behaviour

SWINDON: A 46-year-old woman from Princes Street in Swindon must pay £70 after pleading guilty to a charge of antisocial behaviour.

Evelyn Harmeston used threatening or abusive language or behaviour in The Parade in the town centre on June 14. She was fined £40 and ordered to pay a surcharge of £30 to fund victim services.

Council meeting date

HIGHWORTH: The next Highworth Town Council meeting will be held in the Council Chamber at the Council Offices tomorrow at 7pm.

To view the agenda for the meeting, visit the council offices or go to the information section of the council’s website highworthtowncouncil.gov.uk

Nameless piggies

SEVENHAMPTON: Roves Farm is asking visitors to come up with names for their new guinea pigs.

People have until midnight on Tuesday, July 18, to enter. For more, visit www. facebook.com/RovesFarmVC.

N Jason and Mandy Kelham had their heads shaved to fund sign language tuition

A close shave

Picture: THOMAS KELSEY

MANDY and Jason Kelham both went under the clippers at the weekend to help their young son’s schoolmates learn to talk to him using sign language.

The couple from Blunsdon are raising money to buy educational resources for Eastrop Infants where Harrison, six, is a pupil.

For Jason the shave was a big deal – when he sat in the chair at on Friday at 5pm before the school fete, he was saying goodbye to the long blonde locks that have adorned his head for the past two decades.

Mandy told the Advertiser: “I’ve known him 20 years and I’ve never seen him any different.”

The idea to undergo a head shave was hers, but when she set about organising it Jason decided they could do it together.

The couple’s aim is not just to help Harrison’s school, but also Highworth Pre-school and they are encouraged by the attitude of his school friends.

“I think it is absolutely amazing that the children are taking it on board.

“That is how they communicate with Harrison,” said Mandy.

Harrison, who has Downs Syn-

Tina Robins

tina.robins@wiltshire.newsquest.co.uk drome, was born with two holes in his heart that had to be repaired.

He is totally deaf in his right ear but has some hearing in his left, so he wears an aid.

He wasn’t able to walk until he was around three and for the first few months at Eastrop he had to use a frame.

But his sunny nature won him friends.

“He is just a happy chappy, bless him,” said Mandy.

“At the moment he is in mainstream school and loving it.

“All the children are around him, they have taken to him because he is slightly different.”

“I was really surprised,” she said.

“To be quite honest they see that he is different and they include him in everything. If he cannot do something they help him.”

The couple pushed for Harrison to be in mainstream schooling to help his development.

“He would see other children and copy them,” said Mandy. “ It

has brought him on so much.”

But they also believe all children could benefit from learning sign language.

“It is not just children with special needs,” she said. “I think everybody should know the basics of sign language. You never know when it is going to come in handy. It just annoys me that it costs so much to get the books or go on a course.”

Mandy and Jason went on a course themselves after Harrison’s diagnosis. Sister Tiffany, 14, has learned and little brother Christopher, four, is picking it up at home and through the school, where he is in the reception class.

Harrison is also learning to speak. “He will try to look at your face to pick up lip reading and he does actually say quite a lot now, but some of it is hard to understand and that’s where signing comes in.”

They have already beaten their £300 target by £50 but are keen to raise as much as they can.

To sponsor Mandy and Jason visit justgiving.com/crowdfunding/mandy-kelham

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Chocks away for

N All eyes — and cameras — on the sky at the Royal International Air Tattoo

Pictures: THOMAS KELSEY

DANIEL ANGELINI joined the crowds at Fairford for the spectacle that was the Royal International Air Tattoo 2017 DAZZLING displays of amazing aerial acrobatics filled the skies over the weekend as the world’s biggest air show returned to wow hundreds of thousands of visitors who got to see cuttingedge and classic military aircraft up-close and overhead.

The enormous airfield at the RAF base in Fairford was packed full of planes and pilots from across the globe who had travelled thousands of miles to come to the Royal International Air Tattoo.

Kids stared spellbound at the impressive flights of the Finnish Midnight Hawks, Royal Jordanian Falcons and British Red Arrows while military enthusiasts wandered around eagerly like kids in a candy store.

John Batty watched the displays while his nine-year-old son Sam talked excitedly about the names of each aircraft.

The 45-year-old from Cheshire has been taking Sam to the show for four years.

Sam said: “It’s the best one we’ve been to.”

John said: “He’s always had an interest in military aircraft. “ I brought Sam here once

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and now he wants to come every year.

“The Typhoons were excellent and we’re looking forward to seeing the F-22 Raptors and the Thunderbirds.

“There’s a lot more American aircraft here than there usually is because of the anniversary.”

The US Air Force celebrated its 70th anniversary by bringing along some of its biggest and best aircraft and showing off with a series of daily displays that were the centrepiece of this year’s RIAT. One of its members happily chatted to families and cadets who were intrigued by the U-2S reconnaissance aircraft parked next to him, but couldn’t reveal his surname or rank as both were apparently classified.

Mike said: “It’s good to come here because I’m used to seeing only American aircraft at air shows, y’all have so much to offer us.”

Our conversation was briefly interrupted by a Spitfire taking off and zipping through the air.

Mike smiled and added: “We wouldn’t get stuff like this in the US.” The sheer scope of the air show is stunning. It is impossible to see everything in one day and it is surreal to see hundreds of expensive and antique planes of all shapes and sizes gathered together on the same tarmac.

The Royal Australian Air Force flew in to Fairford for their first time at RIAT. Warrant Offic-

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N Thomas in action

N B2 Stealth Bombers in action er Ben Stibbs was thrilled to be at the air show, dwarfed by a massive Boeing E-7A Wedgetail.

He said: “It’s a long trip but it’s worth it — it’s awesome here.

“I’ve never been to an air show like this, it’s humongous.

“This aircraft was just in the Middle East on Operation OKRA. We picked it up on the way here and it’s been used extensively in the fight against ISIS.” Though the flying displays were the main attraction, there was plenty to entertain the crowds on the ground, too, like the retro wartime music and dancing in the Vintage Village, or the interactive fun and games of the Activity Zone, the daredevil driving in the Autodrome, and the high-tech exhibits of the TechnoZone.

The three-day Air Tattoo is staged in support of the RAF Charitable Trust, which assists the force and encourages young people to get involved in the UK’s aviation industry.

Next year’s event will coincide with the 100th anniversary of the RAF.

N Jasper in a Red Arrow

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A career in technology awaits THE Institution of Engineering and Technology is bringing together more than 30 companies to inspire youngsters to start an exciting career in engineering and technology.

The Swindon Mail Centre in Dorcan will be hosting the Engineering Open House Day on the morning of Friday, July 28.

The event attracted 1,600 people last year.

The aim is to show children the diversity of engineers’ work and educate them on the choice of industries a career in engineering could open to them.

Jeremy Watson, IET president, said “We’re delighted to have so many fantastic brands opening their doors to local children and parents.”

“Often, we find that people don’t really understand what

engineers actually do so this is all about helping kids understand that engineering is at the heart of many things they know and love.”

Attendees can expect a classroom presentation and a tour of the centre.

The event is part of IET’s wider campaign ‘Engineering A Better World’ (EABW), which is aimed at motivating all young people towards a career in engineering.

Searching for lost relatives

N An older generation of the Edwards family. Inset, Jackie Petty and Pat Thomas

Daniel Angelini

daniel.angelini@newsquest.co.uk @Adver_Daniel A HISTORY fan is trying to find long-lost Swindonian relatives.

Pat Thomas, along with her second cousin Jackie Petty, are trying to trace their connected family tree to find one of their distant relatives who they’ve never met but still believe to be alive and living in the town.

Pat’s grandmother Rachel Edwards and Jackie’s grandfather John Edwards lived in Swindon in the late 1800s and early 1900s and Pat herself lived on Stratton Road in the 60s.

Pat has since moved to Kent and Jackie lives near London.

After meeting many years ago online through the ancestry.com website, they have managed to track down many of their living relatives but there’s one relative they’re particularly eager to find.

Pat said: “We have been researching this for 20 years. We decided to trace my grandmother’s and grandfather’s lines and have pictures of most of them.

“Dilys Hall was born in 1920 as Dilys Edwards and has lived

Pair believe first cousin is still alive in Swindon

on South Street – she’s our first cousin once removed and would be 96 now.

“It would be great to know what has happened to Dilys, we would come whizzing down to see her if she’s still around, it would mean so much to us.”

They used the ancestry website, along with birth and death certificates from register offices, to follow the branches of their family tree and have made contact for the first time with cousins and other relatives who live all over the world.

Pat also found out that one lived surprisingly close to home.

“We thought one relative had died during the war after going down with his ship but we learned through the website that he had married and had children who lived no more than 15 miles but they passed away before we could meet them.

“There is no death certificate for Dilys so we believe that she is still alive and it would be lovely to meet her.”

Pat is also hoping to find more photos of earlier generations of the Edwards family to complete her family history collection, particularly Henry Edwards, who was born in 1892 and was known as Harry.

He was born in 1892 in Avebury, Wiltshire, the youngest of 11 children of John Edwards and Harriet Ann Lambourn. He passed away in 1970 and lived in South Street in Swindon.

Pat said: “We have old photos of most of the 11 brothers and sisters and their families and a picture of our great-grandparents but we have none of Harry or his family, so we’d be delighted to receive any information.”

If you can help, email daniel. angelini@newsquest.co.uk.

Vintage cars displayed at show

MORE than 150 classic, vintage and performance cars will be on display in front of Lydiard House on Saturday, July 22, between 10am and 4pm.

Now in its third year, the Lydiard Park Auto & Retro Festival is organised by RMJ Top Events.

There will be a range of vehicles on display from the 1930s to the 1990s, with new vehicles from TH White, Fish Brothers and David

Hendry Cars. Highlights this year will be a special display from the Swindon Custom & Rods Club, RS owners club and Wilts VW club.

Music will also be on the agenda with Pocket Orchestra performing during the day. Swingout Swindon will be offering a taste of Lindy Hop dance class in the main marquee.

There will also be plenty of food from cream teas to Thai cuisine.

In keeping with the event, traders

will be selling vintage sweets, retro clothing and motoring accessories.

There will also be a vintage hair makeover area and children’s rides.

Tickets for the festival can be bought in advance by visiting www. autoretrofestival.co.uk and are priced at £9 for adults and £3 for children aged between three and 16. Children under three go free.

For more information, visit www. autoretrofestival.co.uk

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Icelandic trek to help charity AN Openreach employee from Swindon has taken on the challenge of braving the Icelandic terrain in aid of the Armed Forces and their families.

Joshua Moss was inspired to take on the challenge in honour of his grandfather who served his country in the RAF for 12 years and, more recently, has been fighting cancer but is now in remission.

Starting just outside of Reykjavik on August 19, the group will trek for up to

N Alan Fletcher with his guide dog Nutmeg

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‘Put an end to parking peril’

Chris Humphreys

chris.humphreys@newsquest.co.uk @Adver_Chris PARKING on pavements is putting blind and partially sighted people at risk of serious injury.

That is the warning from leading charity Guide Dogs UK in a campaign being backed by Swindon’s MPs. The presence of unexpected cars can force guide dogs to take their owners into the road and possibly into the path of oncoming traffic that they cannot see.

The former chairman of the Swindon Guide Dogs group, Alan Fletcher, said it is an issue that has got consistently worse as the prevalence of multi-car homes increases without any change to space on the roads.

Alan, 69, who lost his sight in 2005 and relies on guide dog Nutmeg, said: “On the routes that we

Calls to keep pavements safe for guide dog users

go on when we’re out walking with the guide dog we expect it to be clear.

“They’re trained to get around obstacles whether it’s a child’s bike, or they’re digging up the pavement, or, more than likely, there is a car parked there.

“The issue is the dog will take us to the edge of the kerb, and then stop. I’ll ask her to find the way and she’ll do that by walking on the road.”

Alan said being able to hear the cars but not knowing how close he is to them is a nervewracking experience.

“It’s getting even more an issue

N Justin Tomlinson and Robert Buckland have given their backing to the Guide Dogs UK campaign

than it used to be, I come across it every day,” he added.

“It’s not just people with guide dogs either, but visually impaired people with white canes or mums and dads with pushchairs too.”

Research by YouGov shows that 54 per cent of UK drivers admit to parking on the pavement, with more than a quarter of them doing so a few times a month or more. More than half admit that they think about the impact on people with sight loss, but park on the pavement anyway.

Guide Dogs UK is campaigning for pavement parking to be introduced as an offence, except in areas where local authorities grant specific exemptions.

This is already the case in London, but elsewhere across the country councils struggle to tackle the issue because they can only restrict it street by street.

The charity recently took its campaign to Westminster and Swindon’s two MPs were among those to give it their backing.

South Swindon’s Robert Buckland said: “No one should be forced to brave traffic by cars parked on the pavement. Blind and partially sighted people should be able to walk the streets without fear.”

North Swindon’s Justin Tomlinson, said: “Often selfish and lazy parking can cause real problems for people with Guide Dogs, people in wheelchairs and people using pushchairs.”

nine hours a day through lava fields, frozen ground and green hills, finishing on August 23.

The challenge is completed when the SSAFA banner is planted in the ground at Skógarfoss, one of the most impressive waterfalls in Iceland with a 60-metre drop.

Joshua has been tasked with a minimum fundraising target of £3,000 for SSAFA, with all money raised going towards providing practical, emotional and financial

support to veterans past and present and their families.

SSAFA became Openreach’s first formal Charity of the Year partner in 2015 and already £61,000 has been raised.

Openreach CEO Clive Selley said: “This is an exciting and demanding challenge.”

You can show your support for Joshua on his MyDonate page https://mydonate.bt.com/ fundraisers/joshmoss17

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Letters to the Editor COMMENT THE frustration of the councillors demanding change in Swindon’s ongoing town centre development saga is entirely understandable.

It is over a decade since we were promised a slew of shiny new buildings and superb facilities, yet so far we seem to have gained little more than a health centre, some sheltered housing and a car park.

Any number of construction projects across the world have progressed from start to finish in less time. The list includes, but is not limited to, One World Trade Centre, Tower Bridge, Coventry Cathedral and the 160-storey Burj Khalifa.

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In recent decades, the people of Swindon have been promised dynamic architectural wonders by councils of various political stripes.

In many instances, sadly, the only things delivered have been another type of architecture entirely — castles in the air.

Many long-suffering taxpayers concluded years ago that just about any development promise issued by the council should be treated like a chronic recidivist’s sincere and tearful promise to reform.

Such a viewpoint is only partially fair — there have been some success stories, such as the

decades-overdue new central library — but the council has only itself to blame.

The current call for some form of dynamic action to be taken after all these years has been met with a pledge to produce a report which will not be available until September.

This will do nothing to dispel suggestions of overwhelming inertia and an insatiable urge to kick anything remotely troubling into the long grass.

If the council wishes to salvage a shred of credibility from this affair, it must come up with a workable action plan and a credible, carefully itemised schedule of works.

Steam is an asset

IT IS good that steam is still around producing electricity in power stations whether the heat source is coal, oil, gas or nuclear (Steve Halden July 13).

Our planning experts have forgotten that steam is an asset which, over the years, has never been fully exploited.

The former cooling towers so typical of power stations wasted heat which could have been used to recycle sewage outfall by distillation.

Towns like Swindon extract water from aquifers to supply drinking water, which is a decreasing resource.

Recycling of sewage outfall via distillation could be an answer as the distillation process would produce water clear of germs and the eutrifying nitrates and phosphates currently discharged into rivers like the upper Thames.

Also, using cleaned up sewage outfall for domestic water supply would decrease the need for extra extraction of ground water from aquifers for the growing population of Swindon.

NOEL GARDNER Carlisle Avenue, Swindon

Use common sense

IN REPLY to Pat Norman (Adver July 10 ) may I make a point regarding my adage on IQs? Mr Poole clearly declared that the common men and women did not have the intellect to realise the repercussions of leaving the failing Disunion.

IQs have no connection with common sense. That is accrued by living in the real world on a daily basis.

There are many academics on the tax payers’ payroll who hated the vote regarding Britain leaving the Disunion, becoming a free and sovereign nation, controlling our borders and judiciary, as well as our fishing rights as an island nation.

Mr Poole’s nonsensical remarks about political bias seem to have forgotten Chameleon Cameron’s false

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Finally, just a thought, in reply to Ray Reader, you couldn’t make it up on a good day. No offence Ray. I am afraid that the internet has destroyed any chance of any future employment in the newspaper industry

and my personal circumstances regarding caring for my good lady with advanced Alzheimer’s makes my contributions to the Adver pages and its readers a welcome break. Forgive me for that one readers.

BILL WILLIAMS Merlin Way, Covingham, Swindon

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...The voice of age and experience

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fter decades of DIY and weeks of working on big building projects in our garden, I reckon my tool kit is now pretty much complete.

They are all there: Hammers, screwdrivers, drills and saws, plus what no DIYer should ever be without, which is plenty of swear words.

You never know when you are going to need one, and just lately I have needed them a lot.

We all know you should have one handy for when the hammer hits your effing thumb, and the other day I needed a few more when I tripped over the effing lawn roller and gashed my effing ankle.

I was still getting my money’s worth, an hour later, when I had to put my leg up because it had swollen up like an effing tennis ball.

In these situations swearing is so much more comforting than an ice pack or a plaster. But it’s not just useful for injuries.

I found it priceless when I spent ages getting all my other tools ready for a big job and as soon as I started doing some work it started to effing rain and I had to effing put them all away again.

And of course swear words are particularly useful when part of the project goes wrong.

Unless you are some kind of master craftsman or you are unnaturally patient and diligent, this happens quite often when you are doing jobs around the house or in the garden.

I have lost count of the number of times I have been sawing wood, only to find that I had accidentally cut off the wrong effing bit.

Even worse: drilling a piece of wood and finding the effing bit breaking off in the effing hole, and can you effing believe it?

That’s effing Sod’s Law, that is, which is appropriate as ‘sod’ was considered swearing when I was a kid, but not now.

If you are a young DIYer you may be wondering where you can get hold of suitable swear words, because they don’t seem to stock them at B&Q, which is strange because my sweary mate says they have every effing tool under the effing sun.

You could always ask someone who works on the buildings to lend you some as I have noticed they have far more than they need.

I was grateful to the lads working on next door’s extension, for instance, who kindly came up with some ideas when they upset all the cement in their effing wheelbarrow.

But I don’t think young people are going to be short of colourful words on account of the internet, where swearing is rife, and people have little shame about using words once considered extreme.

We swear far more than we used to, but we need to be careful, because you can have too much of a good thing.

I feel sorry for people who swear all the time, and therefore have no profanities to channel their pain into when they are doing DIY, or they stub their toes, or the inevitable happens and England go out on penalties to the effing Germans.

My only worry is that swearing has become too commonplace, and formerly shocking words are losing their edge.

Because blunt tools are no use to anybody.

My fear is that some people, including those who should know better, are resorting to words that have insulting racial connotations or are aimed at disrespecting people with disabilities - you know the ones I mean - and thinking that is an acceptable alternative.

Well it #>?%$!@ isn’t.

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Crash victim backs brain injury charity Donations are passed on to help others

Daniel Angelini

daniel.angelini@newsquest.co.uk @Adver_Daniel A TEENAGER from Pinehurst presented a cheque for more than £600 to brain injury charity Headway Swindon at a fun day held over the weekend.

Courtney Thurman, 18, suffered a brain injury following a car crash in the early hours of August 13 last year.

She said: “A car with a hay bale crashed into me and I fell unconscious, I died and came back, though I don’t remember the crash at all.

“I was in hospital for three months before I was able to leave.

“I was really struggling, I had to learn how to walk and talk again.

“My mum was with me in hospital every day.”

After the accident, Courtney was rushed to Southampton General

N Sheryl Edwards, left, and Headway Swindon CEO Jane Weston receive a

cheque from Courtney Thurman and her mum Nikki Picture: CLARE GREEN Hospital and placed in a coma to allow her to be treated for brain swelling.

Friends and fellow Pinehurst residents pitched in to raise a whopping £1,400, which allowed the family to travel 124 miles every day to be by Courtney’s bedside.

The local community was so gen-

erous that the family had £602.40 left unspent after Courtney’s remarkable recovery and she decided to donate the money to Headway.

CEO of Headway Swindon Jane Weston was thrilled to receive such a sizeable donation.

She said: “We are over the moon, it makes such a difference to us.

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“We are so dependent on local people supporting us so we can help people like Courtney.

“We wanted to come out and say thank you personally because it was so important and meant so much to us.”

Now back on her feet and recovering at home, 18-year-old Courtney was full of praise for the people who rallied round to help her during the hardest few months of her life.

She said: “I feel a lot better now, everyone helped me so much and I couldn’t have done it without their support.

“I started crying when I heard how much money they had raised.

“Thank you to everyone, I’m so grateful, I wouldn’t be here today without them.”

It costs £360,000 a year to run the services Headway Swindon provide, and £60,000 of that comes from fundraising.

The charity is currently supporting 92 patients.

The cheque presentation was far from the only attraction at the Pinehurst Fun Day. There were also inflatable slides, firefighters, rides, and live music and entertainment from the Swindon Wildcats players at the free community-run event on Saturday.

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Pupils are taught lessons in life skills SCHOOLCHILDREN from Swindon have taken part in a scheme aimed at arming them with life skills.

The annual Junior Good Citizen (JGC) engages young people in a fun and safe learning environment to equip them with the skills they need as they make their transition from Primary to Secondary Education.

The multi-agency scheme, with funding from the office of the Police and Crime Commissioner engages schools, emergency services and local authorities who work together in partnership to educate children from Year Six (aged 10 and 11) to better safeguard themselves and help others.

Students totalling more than 1600 from 39 Swindon primary schools took part in scenarios that challenged their skills and understanding which included staying safe online, railway safety, K9 awareness (being safe around dogs), fire safety, personal safety, road safety, weapons awareness and envirocrime PCSO Mandi Coles said: “The emphasis of this scheme is for young people to have fun while they learn about how they can keep themselves and those in their communities safe.

“The Swindon Junior Good Citizen scheme has been going for many years and I really enjoy being involved in it. This year we introduced envirocrime, which touched on topics such as littering, fly tipping and keeping the streets clean.

“Several partnership agencies offer a comprehensive scheme which encompasses as many different scenarios as possible. It has armed thousands of children across Swindon with crucial information about how to deal with dangerous and possible lifethreatening situations.”

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WHAT’S ON

A selection of the events taking place in and around Swindon today N Rhythm of the Dance, 7.30pm, Wyvern Theatre, Theatre Square, Swindon. £27.50. 01793 524481.

Irish entertainment, featuring world champion dancers, an Irish band, Young Irish Tenors.

N Beginners Mosaics, 11am, Artsite, The Post Modern, Theatre Square, Swindon. 07910959036. £40 for four weeks.

N Book Club, 7.30pm, Savernake Hall, Savernake Street, Swindon. £2 for coffee. New book club meets once a month N Dance Fit Fusion class, 6.30pm, Swindon Dance, Regent Circus, Swindon. £6.20. 01793 601700. Full body aerobic workout N Fight Klub Swindon, 7pm, SUJU, 28 High Street, Swindon. £7.

07871 441 691 Boxing N Fitsteps Fab, 6:45pm, St Mary’s Church Hall, Cheney Manor Road, Rodbourne Cheney, Swindon. £5.01793 325341.

N Jack and Jills Toddlers, 9.30am, Savernake Hall, Savernake Street, Swindon.

N Poker Tournament, 8pm, Beehive, 55 Prospect Hill, Old Town, Swindon. 01793 523187.

N Walking Netball, 6.15pm,

Bradon Forest School Sports Hall, The Peak, Purton. £3. 01793 423134.

N Moredon Netball Club The club trains in term time every Monday, and plays on Saturdays at Dorcan School. There are five leagues competing. 07970 162844 or email karen@cdrecruitment.co.uk N Shaw Health Walks, 2pm, Lower Shaw Farm, Old Shaw Lane, Swindon. Free.

N Bingo, Royal Wootton Bassett Bowls Club, Tanners Close, Royal Wootton Bassett. 01249816880.

N Swindon Male Voice Choir, 7.30pm, New Century Club, Gorse Hill, Swindon. 01793 822495.

N Mess session, 8.30pm, Beehive, Prospect Hill, Old Town, Swindon.

Free. 01793 523187.

N Salsa class, 7.30pm, Swindon Dance, Regent Circus, Swindon. £6, £4.25. 01793 601700.

N Covingham Health Walk, 2pm, St Paul’s Centre, St Paul’s Drive Covingham, Swindon. Free. 07932 109209.

N Penhill Walk for Health, 10am, John Molton Common Room, Penhill Drive Penhill, Swindon.

Free. 07731741028.

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Café opening is a dream come true

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N The team at the Goddard Park Community Café

Tom Seaward

tom.seaward@swindonadvertiser. co.uk @Adver_TSeaward HUNGRY visitors tucked into tasty cooked breakfasts when a new community café opened its doors in Park North.

The new café, called The Gate, has set up in the former children’s centre at Goddard Park Community Primary School.

Volunteers from the Swindon Night Shelter have promised they will whip up delicious meals from food donated by supermarkets across Swindon.

The meals will be cheap but there won’t be set prices as café volunteers will be inviting people to pay a fair price for what they think the food is worth.

Swindon Night Shelter co-founder Becky Davidson came up with the idea for a café several years ago after staff at the Ocotal Way Tesco

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And it even enjoyed a Red Arrows flypast!

N Dawn Prosser and Becky Davison at the café donated furniture from a store restaurant that was forced to close.

“We had a load of tables

and chairs,” said Becky. “So when the time came we knew we had everything in our warehouse that we would

need to open up a café.”

Finally Becky’s dream came true and, on Thursday she was delighted when the café opened its doors to paying customers for the first time.

“The opening went really well,” she said afterwards.

“We had a lot of people coming in and there was some really positive feedback.

“People were saying that a café was something that was really needed.

“We even had a flypast from the Red Arrows who were on their way to the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford.”

And she laughed: “That’s not something that you have at every café opening.”

The café will initially open for just one day a week, serving breakfasts, lunches and cakes every Thursday from 8.30am. For more information about the night shelter café visit: www.swindonnightshelter.org.uk.

‘It will be like Henry VIII’s day,’ says MP GREEN MEP and the Green Party spokesman for Brexit Molly Scott Cato says the recent release of the Repeal Bill will resuscitate archaic Henry VIII powers and limit Parliamentary scrutiny, providing a mechanism for ministers to take back control from the people.

“It will allow the Government to make a bonfire of important EU legislation protecting our environment and our rights,” said Dr Scott Cato.

“Rather than a Great Repeal Bill, what we really need is a Great Reform Bill to

deliver a fair and proportional electoral system, a fully democratic House of Lords, and a written constitution.

“The Brexit process is increasingly centring power in Westminster where the Tories in charge of the Brexit negotiations are making a total shambles of it.

“Our only hope to save the country from the unfolding disaster is a ratification referendum at the end of the process.

“This would genuinely give control back to the people.

“We need a clear choice between voting for the deal inept Tory ministers manage to negotiate or continued membership of the EU.” Molly Scott Cato is Green MEP for the South West of England and Gibraltar and is one of 50 Green/EFA MEPs in the European Parliament.

She sits on the Economics and Monetary Affairs Committee, PANA committee investigating tax evasion and the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee.

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Peppa pays a visit

PURTON: Children’s favourite Peppa Pig comes to the Royal George pub play bus on August 9.

The free drop-in event, which runs between 10.30 and 11.30am, is open to under fives and their siblings and offers crafts and interactive fun.

Riding for charity

COATE: The Coate Water Railway has thanked all the passengers who took a ride on the railway over the weekend of July 8 and 9.

The event raised £1,506 for the Brighter Futures Campaign. The railway will be open to the public every Sunday and some Saturdays from 11am until 5pm and will cost £2 per ride. All openings are subject to volunteers and weather. For more information go to: www.nwmes.co.uk or www.facebook.com/coatewaterrailway for up to date information.

Family fun day held

N Cadets Tom, Alice, William and Max at Stratton Fire Station’s open day Picture: THOMAS KELSEY

N Jaden, Hugo and Melissa on the fire truck

Crowds join crews to help raise cash Tanya Yilmaz

tyilmaz@newswilts.co.uk @TanyaNewsWilts CHILDREN and adults were able to unleash their inner firefighter on Saturday as Stratton’s finest opened up the fire station for charity.

The annual occasion has become quite a hit with families over the years and hundreds turned out for the chance to take a peek through a fire engine while others had a go at using a fire hose.

With a whole host of other activities and games on offer for the entire family, any money raised will be divided between the Fire Fighters Charity and Crowdys Hill School.

Wendy Regan, 30, brought along her daughter Summer, eight, to the event as her husband James is a firefighter at the station.

She said: “Summer loves it and we always come along to events. There’s little games for the kids and something for everyone. People should come out to support these sorts of event because it raises money for charity and it is for a good cause.”

Jo Harnett’s daughter Chloe, 13, attends Crowdys Hill School and she said she appreciates how many people support the open day as the money raised will help pay for a new sensory room for the school.

“We’ve come to all the fetes over the years and it is really nice to be able to come to the station so all the children can have a look around the fire engines and see what these

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guys do,” the 41-year-old said.

“Kids love these sorts of days out and it is a great free day out right on your doorstep.”

As well as modern and vintage fire engines being on display, there were also demonstrations to crowds on how fire crews deal with emergency situations such as road traffic collisions.

The Stratton team was also on hand to talk to people about becoming an on-call firefighter.

Watch manager Mark Evans, from Stratton Fire Station, said he was delighted by how many people had turned up.

“Days like these are all about families and raising the money is secondary to seeing everyone have a nice time,” he added.

“Fire stations are quite a closed space and so it is nice to open the doors up so that people can see where we work. The event is also about letting other groups and charities use our platform to spread word of what they do and boost donations so if we can help them then that can only be a good thing.”

Rachel Russell, chairman of the Friends of Crowdys Hill School, said it is anticipated that event had raised hundreds of pounds.

OLD TOWN: A family fun day and fundraiser is being held at Savernake Street Community Centre on Saturday, July 22, from 10am to 3pm. Facepainting, games, prizes, balloon animals, a craft stall and a soft play area and more will be on offer for families to enjoy.

Church floodlights

WROUGHTON: Anyone who would like to have the church floodlit to commemorate a special occasion, anniversary or baptism should visit the the church website at www. wroughton.com. The cost is £20.

Reading challenge

SWINDON: A children’s summer reading challenge will be taking place in Swindon libraries until Saturday, September 2.

Animal Agents is produced by The Reading Agency. For more information go to librariesoutreach@swindon.gov.uk.

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Posties vote on pension plan reform WORKERS at Royal Mail are to vote on proposals by the postal firm to reform its pension scheme as it attempts to avert the threat of strike action.

The privatised group had planned to close its defined benefit pension scheme next year, which resulted in fury from Unite and the Communication Workers Union.

However, on Friday, Royal Mail said that after extensive talks with unions, Unite is planning to hold a consultative ballot of its members on a new proposal, as it believes this is the best available deal and a significant improvement on an earlier proposal.

“Royal Mail is one of few companies to replace one defined benefit scheme with another,” the company said.

The offer - which will see Royal Mail present a choice between joining either a defined benefit cash balance scheme or a defined contribution scheme to the plan’s 90,000 members - has also been extended to CWU members.

The company pays £400m a year into the pension fund but warned this could rise to £1bn in 2018 under the current terms, which guarantees a pension based on average salary.

It said its new proposal can be funded in its £400m contribution and the risk to the group would be lower than at present.

Tesco’s pledge on harmful chemicals

N Tesco is to remove hazardous chemicals from its supply chain

TESCO has joined a growing list of major high street retailers in beginning to remove chemicals thought to be hazardous from the supply chain of its clothing brand.

Greenpeace said Tesco will immediately begin the process of eliminating 11 groups of hazardous substances from its F&F brand, including phthalates, brominated and chlorinated flame retardants, chlorinated solvents and heavy metals.

The environmental group said the supermarket giant’s commitment went beyond chemicals already banned by EU regulations and took a precautionary principle, eliminating those thought to be harmful but not necessarily backed by evidence.

Some 80 international brands and suppliers have now committed to the Greenpeace Detox Campaign since it began in 2011, including Marks & Spencer, H&M, Benetton, Levi Strauss, Aldi, Lidl and Tchibo.

Environmental hazards to be removed from clothes

Kirsten Brodde, the Detox Campaign leader at Greenpeace Germany, said: “The Detox standard is the new industry baseline. In only six years, forerunners of the textile sector went from total denial and opacity of their supply chain to transparency and the banning of all hazardous chemicals.

“Tesco’s commitment shows the rest of the industry that using hazardous chemicals is not an option anymore.

“Tesco now has the opportunity to match the progress being made by other retailers and Greenpeace will monitor it closely to ensure they follow up their commitment.”

The campaign calls for members to eliminate chemicals that may harm the environment, even if the type or magnitude of harm is not yet known, increase transparency about the suppliers they use and commit to eliminate all releases of toxic chemicals by 2020.

Alan Wragg, the technical director for clothing at Tesco, said: “Our Responsible Sourcing Team has been working with Greenpeace to align all our textile products with the Detox commitment, starting with clothing and footwear, and we’ve compiled a list of restricted substances to help guide our suppliers.”

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WORD WHEEL 22. Mr Capone comes round with a warning (5) 23. Team not batting in the open? (7) 24. Arriving with the company china (6) 25. One turning up at the bingo hall? (6)

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Down: 1 Remember; 2 Changes; 4 Trauma; 5 Flying pigs; 6 Erica; 7 Sash; 10 Blueprints; 12 Students; 15 Notable; 16 Estate; 18 Haven; 19 Adam.

Quick: Across: 1 Cite; 3 Producer; 8 Tier; 9 Classify; 11 Redletter day; 13 Clever; 14 Outset; 17 Picture house; 20 Obedient; 21 Cede; 22 Malinger; 23 Real.

Down: 1 Cataract; 2 Treadle; 4 Relate; 5 Distraught; 6 China; 7 Rays; 10 Pedestrian; 12 Ethereal; 15 Squeeze; 16 Orange; 18 Ideal; 19 Poem.

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Teenager Hazeldine joins the Cats SWINDON Wildcats playercoach Aaron Nell is excited by the prospect of seeing latest recruit Joseph Hazeldine develop during his time at the Link Centre.

At the tender age of 16, Hazeldine joins the Cats on a two-way deal with Elite League side Nottingham Panthers as he looks for more time on the ice in the National League South division.

And, with the experienced heads of Neil Liddiard and Sam Zajac already in the Cats’ D-line, Nell is confident that Swindon can be the right environment for the England U20 international to spread his wings.

“Joseph is very young and he is up and coming. He got recommended to us by Corey Neilson (Nottingham head coach) and he is going to be on a two-way agreement like Jordan (Kelsall),” said the Wildcats chief.

“He is one of the top young players in the country.

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“I watched him a couple of times in May at a junior tournament and he was pretty dominant.

“We’re excited to have a young player like him come to us and we’re excited to see what he can do as the season progresses.

“I know he is excited and looking forward to his first year in senior hockey.

“We are happy with our D-core, I think it has improved on last season and brining in Sam Zajac has really helped that.”

Swindon have a reputation of bringing through young defensive talent, with Callum Buglass and Matt Selby examples of that in the last year.

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which not only benefits his side but also the players themselves.

“We have got that link with Nottingham now,” he added.

“He is going to get a lot of practice time in Nottingham with the Panthers and that will be great for him and then to come down to us and get some important game time is a good situation.

“Looking back a few years, we had James Griffin, who came in at 16 and made a big name for himself and then there was Paul Swindlehurst too, who had a couple of years here and then went off to the Elite League.

“We do like bringing young defencemen in and I think, with the players we’re going to have around him, everything is not going to be expected of him at the start.

“We need to put him in situations he can succeed in and improve and I think he has got a great situation being in Nottingham, to learn from their people to.”

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Monday, July 17, 2017

TONIGHT: LEICESTER LIONS v SWINDON ROBINS

Salisbury are Town’s Robins’ recruit thrilled by new team’s upsurge in form next step n ELITE LEAGUE n BEAUMONT PARK n PARADE 7.30PM

It’s been Musielak to ears of Tobiasz Matthew Edwards SPEEDWAY

medwards@swindonadvertiser.co.uk @Matt_r_Edwards

NEW recruit Tobiasz Musielak is enjoying his start to life with the Swindon Robins after helping his side to back-to-back wins over league leaders Belle Vue Aces.

The Pole, who had previously raced for Wolverhampton Wolves back in 2015, was thrown in at the deep end after signing at the Abbey Stadium.

With little bedding-in time, he was lining up at the tapes against the Premiership pace setters, having been brought in to replace Austrian youngster Dany Gappmaier.

However, having taken just a day to agree to terms with Swindon, the Polish rider, who is riding for Rybnik in Poland’s Ekstraliga, settled in immediately, picking up paid six and paid five points in the home and away meetings respectively and is enjoying the start to his Swindon career.

“I feel very good because I have only been here for two matches and we have won both matches,” he said.

“The reaction to my arrival has given me a huge boost and I want to say a massive thank you to the fans for making me welcome.

“I will try my best to show them my skills.

“I am very, very satisfied and looking forward to our next meeting.

“We must keep going and we are doing better now.

“Next week is quite busy, so we must keep this going and we will do our best.

“We feel full of confidence, having beaten the league leaders and we must build on that now.”

The 23-year-old enjoyed the track at the National Stadium on Friday night, reminding him of the tracks

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he races on back home, but with more grip.

Now he faces a completely different prospect this evening at Leicester Lions’ Beaumont Park stadium, but having ridden there twice before with Wolves, he is ready for the challenge and wants to keep the momentum going.

“That track is really good,” he added.

“It is similar to Polish tracks but the material is different.

“I wish to ride like a track like that in Poland, the grip was fantastic and it was a very nice track.

“I have ridden in Leicester twice and it is an okay track for me.

“We will see how it goes on Monday.”

Leicester hand a debut to their own Polish youngster Pawel Przedpelski, who has signed for the remainder of the season and makes his first appearance in British racing – whilst Kyle Newman appears at home for

Picture: DAVE EVANS the first time since joining the Midlands club.

The hosts have lost their last four matches and are six points adrift at the foot of the table, but did get the better of the Robins 48-42 back in April.

Tonight’s fixture is also being televised live by BT Sport.

LEICESTER: Kim Nilsson, Kyle Newman, Pawel Przedpelski, Josh Bates, Danny King, Erik Riss, Lasse Bjerre.

SWINDON: Troy Batchelor, Bradley Wilson-Dean, Tobiasz Musielak, David Bellego, Nick Morris, Adam Ellis, Zach Wajtknecht.

Howell slips down leaderboard

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SWINDON’S David Howell endured a final round to forget at the Scottish Open yesterday, which included two double bogeys.

Having made just his fourth cut of the season, the 42-yearold was well positioned heading into the weekend at one under par.

However, Howell, who has been hampered by injuries this year, struggled on the front nine on Saturday as he fell off the pace with bogeys on holes one, four, six and seven, as he went out in 38.

He was able to settle things down a bit on the back nine

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but finished day three at Dundonald Links on two over par.

A bogey five on hole one for the second time during the weekend set the tone for the two-time Ryder Cup winner yesterday.

Despite picking up birdies on holes five and nine, a double bogey on the par-four seventh saw Howell go out in 37.

Things fell apart for Howell on the back nine as he picked up another double bogey on the par-four 12th, before back-

to-back bogeys on 14 and 15 were followed up with another dropped shot on the par-four 17th to see the Broome Manor pro finish the day six over par and eight over par for the tournament.

Derry Hill’s Jordan Smith fared little better as he finished on four over par, having started the day on two over.

Smith recovered from backto-back bogeys on the opening two holes with birdies on three, six and nine to go out one under par, but bogeys on 12, 14 and 17 saw a disappointing end to proceedings for the 24-year-old.

SWINDON TOWN SWINDON Town manager David Flitcroft says his side are on track during their preseason campaign.

Friday’s behind-closed-doors friendly with Oldham Athletic, in which Ellis Iandolo returned from injury to score in a 1-1 draw, continued Flitcroft’s plans for the upcoming League Two campaign.

That continues tonight when Swindon make the short trip to Salisbury’s Ray Mac Stadium (7pm), with Steve Claridge’s side plying their trade in the Evo-Stik League South & West division alongside Swindon Supermarine.

And, having upped the intensity of their work and the number of minutes players got on Friday afternoon, Flitcroft will be hoping to see that progression continue on the eve of their trip to Portugal for a five-night training camp.

“We’re live tracking the boys, we’re live tracking the data and we kept getting messages on that they were in the thresholds we wanted them to be,” he told told the club website.

“A few of the boys have got N Aden Flint 90 minutes, which is fantastic, and the rest of the boys are getting there.

“It was a great test and the marks are good from the data and the output. We’re on target for where I want to be.”

Meanwhile, Swindon could be set for a cash windfall should former defender Aden Flint secure a move away from Bristol City.

City have been reported as being willing to listen to offers for the 27-year-old, who joined City from Swindon in 2013 for an initial fee of £300,000, with supplements of a further £50,000 payable depending on appearances and promotion.

The Adver also understands that the deal that took him to Ashton Gate also included a 20 per cent sell-on clause.

With a host of clubs showing interest in the central defender, including Leeds United, who appear to be at the front of the queue, a figure of £4million has been suggested, which could see Flitcroft handed an £800,000 boost to his transfer kitty.

Elsewhere, former Town defender Jamie Sendles-White, who was released by the club at the end of a season which was curtailed by a knee injury, was on the team sheet for National League side Leyton Orient’s game with Harlow Town on Saturday.

Jordan Slew, who featured as a trialist for Swindon against Swindon Supermarine and Melksham Town was part of a Mansfield Town side that lost to Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday.

Monday, July 17, 2017

SWINDON ADVERTISER

Marine step it up a level

TJ Bohane takes the congratulations after his stunning free-kick for Marine’s second against Newport County on Saturday Pictures: JEFF YOUD

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SWINDON Supermarine manager Dave Webb is pleased with the direction his side are heading in after pushing League Two side Newport County all the way in their 4-3 defeat on Saturday.

A Conor Thompson goal, tapping in Ryan Campbell’s shot after a well-worked move down the right, reduced the deficit at half-time, with the visitors to the Webbswood having established a two-goal advantage through wide man Lamar Reynolds and Marine’s Jack Alexander turning into his own net.

Newport regained their twogoal cushion after the break through Robbie Wilmott’s freekick, before Marine again replied through TJ Bohane’s fine set-piece, which nestled into the top corner from 25 yards out.

The travelling side looked to have put the game to bed with 15 minutes left on the clock when Marlon Jackson rounded Marine stopper Josh Hill, recently released by Forest Green Rovers, but Marine again responded almost immediately through Campbell.

Having lost 7-1 to Swindon Town the week prior, with a 2-1

Ryan Campbell scores Marine’s third goal against Newport

Bluebirds change it up for opener CHIPPENHAM Town manager Mark Collier was able to field virtually two different sides in each half as his side drew their opening pre-season friendly at Frome Town on Saturday.

After a quiet opening quarter of an hour, the first chance fell to Frome on 17 minutes when a cross from Chas Hemmings was headed against the bar by Jake Jackson.

Four minutes later, Bluebirds’ trialist striker Josh Williams beat two defenders before shooting just past the post.

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Frome took the lead on the half hour mark when Jackson rounded Rhys Baggridge and ran on to slot the ball past Chitty.

Williams then won the ball on the edge of the area before shooting wide, whilst, at the other end, Jeffries’ shot was blocked.

Smith headed over the Frome bar, whilst Williams’s shot from a central position was off target.

Just before the break, a cross from Davies saw Jackson flash a headed effort wide.

Chippenham hit their equaliser three minutes after the break when Andy Sandell was fouled in the area

by Sam Teale and he converted the resultant spot kick.

Hellenic League Premier Division side Highworth Town were 3-1 victors over Wroughton, Royal Wootton Bassett Town defeated Corsham Town 2-1 and Fairford Town played out a 3-3 draw away at Ardley United. Division One West side Shrivenham ran out 2-0 winners over Wallingford Town.

Webb satisfied with his squad’s improvement Matthew Edwards FOOTBALL

medwards@swindonadvertiser.co.uk @Matt_r_Edwards loss to Gloucester City last Tuesday night, Webb was pleased to see the improvement being shown by his side during what is a tough pre-season schedule.

“It was a big improvement from last week and shows the difference a week can make really,” he said.

“I think our fitness levels were far greater than they were last week.

“We obviously had a good run out on Tuesday against Gloucester City, a game we competed well in and I think we have played some really good stuff today and competed against a League Two side.

“We’ve got a lot from today, as I knew we would through these games.

“The results are irrelevant, you’re looking for individual performances, a group that are working hard for each other and if you can show a little bit of quality, which I think we did in some of the goals, then the future is looking very bright.

“With the players we are going to bring in and the ones that are already here, we have got a really strong group.”

As well as goalkeeper Hill, there was a place in the starting line-up for former Swindon midfielder Lee Marshall, who was at Bath City last season and is also attracting interest from National League South side Chippenham Town.

Webb is also hopeful of securing the services of North Leigh’s Aaron Woodley, who is recovering from a knee injury, however, Callum Parsons has left the Webbswood club.

HOME IMPROVEMENT Monday, July 17, 2017 n sport@swindonadvertiser.co.uk n 01793 501832 n @AdverSport Troy Batchelor continues in the number one role for Swindon Robins tonight, with skipper Jason Doyle still injured

‘WE NEED MORE OF THE SAME’ SWINDON Robins team manager Alun Rossiter won’t let complacency creep in when he takes his side to Leicester Lions this evening.

The Robins head to Beaumont Park buoyed by two stunning results over league leaders Belle Vue Aces last week, where they picked up seven points in the process.

As a result, Swindon have moved to within two points of the play-offs and with Leicester currently at the bottom of the pile, Rossiter is keen to keep their momentum flowing.

“We can’t be over confident,” he said. “We just need to keep the same belief and the same focus on what we are doing and stay the same.

“If we make starts at Leicester like we did in Manchester on Friday night, we will win the meeting.

“People are looking at us now but we have got to keep our feet on the ground.

“I build a team, I try my hardest and whatever happens, I have got to live and die by my sword.”

Rossiter is also keen to see the positivity spreading through the club spread to the fans, having come in for a fair share of criticism this season.

However, having seemingly struck a nice balance with the arrival of

Rossiter’s staying grounded over the Robins’ resurgence Matthew Edwards SPEEDWAY

medwards@swindonadvertiser.co.uk @Matt_r_Edwards Tobiasz Musielak, the Abbey chief knows that everyone must be pulling in the same direction for the remainder of the season.

“Swindon fans, we’re always good when we’re winning but when things get a little bit tough, they go down,” he added.

“There was a negative outlay on Thursday when we lost Jason (Doyle), it was all doom and gloom, but, hey, we’ve got a team of racers here.

“Guys that listen and are hungry, come and back the team.

“They aren’t going to do it with fans sat at home moaning about us.

“Tobiasz has brought a lovely bit of balance to the side.

“When things are good, which they are at the moment, they’ll praise me

but when things go badly, I’ll be the first one they knock down, but keep it coming.

“Just keep it off the riders and we’ll just keep doing what we’re doing.”

Swindon will again be without skipper Jason Doyle for the trip, as he continues to recover from his broken foot, which flared up last week.

However, with Batchelor securing three heat wins from his four races on Friday night, Rossiter has no qualms sticking with the Aussie, who has also come in for criticism of late.

“I know he has been taking some flak on the internet with regard to his injury,” said the Swindon boss.

“If you look at his thumb, it is twice the size of the other one.

“Everybody thinks they know everything but they don’t really know anything.” n Robins start excites Musielak, plus match preview: P26

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LOOKING BACK ON LIFE IN SWINDON

Pictures from the past

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Monday, July 17, 2017

ARCHBISHOP WHO FLED FROM COUP REMEMBERWHEN withBARRIE HUDSON

bhudson@swindondvertiser.co.uk

THE photographs on this page were taken 43 years ago at RAF Lyneham.

The black-robed man who dominates them is Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, who had just fled a coup organised against him by the military cabal which ran Greece at the time.

RAF Lyneham was one of several backdrops against which one of the decade’s most tense political standoffs played out, and whose impact is felt to this day.

Makarios had been a familiar face in British newspapers for many years, having been the driving architect of Cyprus’ independence from British rule.

Various treaties and the fact that Cyprus was a member of the Commonwealth meant that when the coup happened in 1974, the RAF was sent to rescue the president, who was officially recognised as leader.

An Adver reporter and photographer were dispatched to the base.

We said: “President Archbishop Makarios, who fled Cyprus yesterday with the help of the RAF, landed at Lyneham today.

“Earlier yesterday an RAF helicopter had picked up Makarios from Paphos as insurgent forces were closing in on the town. He was flown to Malta.

“The Archbishop is reported to be seeking political asylum in Britain.

“His ultimate destination is believed to be New York, where the Security Council is in emergency session.

“Mr Daniel Ennals, representing the Foreign Office, met the Archbishop on his arrival at Lyneham.

“Britain is still at the centre of frantic diplomatic efforts today to end the Cyprus crisis by putting pressure on the Athens regime to withdraw the 600 Greek officers who are believed to be responsible for

Archbishop Makarios meets the press;

and, right, his arrival at RAF Lyneham

launching the coup.”

The President Archbishop spent time in London, in talks with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, before heading for New York and the United Nations.

The Greek officers had control of the whole of Cyprus, but not for long.

Within days Turkey, long unhappy at what it saw as the disadvantages suffered by Turkish Cypriots, invaded the northern part of the island, and Cyprus remains divided.

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On this day July 17

around Swindon 1951: Cricklade building firm R and HE Giles revealed that for several weeks it had been visited by a hen. The creature had taken a liking to fluttering in from a yard next door in High Street and laying eggs in a box of nails.

Although the hen seemed comfortable with this arrangement, the nails were reportedly playing havoc with its tail feathers.

1961: The children of the Sunday school at Christ Church in Old Town attended the last junior church service at which organist Ronald Ferris played. Mr Ferris, who had been playing for children’s services for three-and-ahalf years, had accepted an offer to become organist at the Church of St John the Baptist in Whitbourne Avenue. Christ Church vicar Canon FW Thomas presented him with a gift of money in thanks for his service.

1971: Ernest and Alice Enderby-Glass, of Cheney Manor Road, celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary. They were married on July 17, 1911.The couple were still regulars at Rodbourne Cheney Church Hall, although they didn’t get out as much as they used to. Ernest was 83 and Alice 77, and family members were planning a surprise celebration. The couple had 27 grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren.

around the world

1453: The Hundred Years War ended when the French defeated the English at Castillon.

1717: George I, Hanoverian King of England, held a public concert on the Thames for Handel to conduct his hour-long Water Music.

1841: The first issue of the magazine Punch was published in London.

1889: Erle Stanley Gardner, US author and lawyer who created Perry Mason, was born.

1917: The British Royal Family adopted the name House of Windsor in place of House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

1945: The Potsdam Conference began with world leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill planning for the future peace at the end of the Second World War. 1955: Walt Disney’s Disneyland was opened in California.

1959: Billie Holiday, jazz singer - probably the greatest of them all - was arrested on her death bed in hospital for possession of narcotics.

She died later that day.

birthdays

Tim Brooke-Taylor, comic actor, 77; Peter Sissons, newscaster, 75; Alun Armstrong, actor, 71; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, 70; Wayne Sleep, dancer, 69; David Hasselhoff, actor and singer, 65; Darren Day, actor, singer and television presenter, 49; Konnie Huq, TV presenter, 42.

Monday, July 17, 2017

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Barrie Hudson looks at the people & events hitting the Adver headlines WHEN the news on everybody’s lips is happening elsewhere, newspapers such as the Adver like to find a local angle.

This week in 1969, doing so was more of a challenge than usual, as the big story was happing about a quarter of a million miles away, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had reached the Moon.

Fortunately we had a secret weapon in the form of a travel agency and one of its customers.

Armstrong had barely planted his flag when an initially unnamed would-be lunar tourist arrived at the Yeomans Miller travel agency in the town centre.

The following day we revealed: “The man who is determined to get to the Moon – he has already placed a booking – is a Swindon trader, 49-year-old Mr Reginald Barnes, proprietor of the children’s wear shop at 111 Commercial Road.”

Mr Barnes lived in Buckingham Road and was married with a 16-year-old daughter. He had been interested in astronomy and related subjects for many years, but said the Apollo project fired his imagination.

Yeomans Miller accepted his booking, but were unable to give him a departure date or a price.

Some commentators estimated at the time that the first commercial trips, when they became available, might cost as much as £25,000, but Mr Barnes doubted that they would be so expensive.

His wife, Theresa, and daughter, Linda, didn’t share his desire to

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Mrs Barnes said her only air trip had been a holiday flight to Jersey, and added: “That was enough for me.”

On the day of the landing we managed to put a local slant on our editorial cartoon. Two Moon creatures were shown raking a reflection of the earth in a stream while one astronaut said to another: “These Wiltshire Moonrakers are never gonna believe this.”

The more enterprising of our advertisers also did their best to get in on the act. The Queen’s Drive Service Station invited customers to “ZOOM into orbit in a brand new Fiat.” Anybody managing this unlikely feat and then surviving reentry in a small yet stylish Italian car would surely have welcomed another invitation – to “SPLASH DOWN” at the Cavendish Car Wash in Cavendish Square.

The Apollo programme became a major symbol of the late 1960s,

Would-be lunar tourist Reginald Barnes, left, elaborately-moustached and frequently ridiculed national politician. He was fond of publicity but not so keen on, among other things, pop music, multiculturalism and sexual liberation.

Daphne Bampton was a wellrespected local politician with a reputation for decency, fairness and standing up on behalf of vulnerable people.

Her opposition to the relaxation of obscenity laws stemmed from her belief that freely-available obscene material might turn people into monsters. She cited the case of Moors Murderers, jailed only three years earlier, who had amassed a collection of pornography.

In a neat quirk of fate, we reported these latest concerns about permissiveness while running large adverts showing Racquel Welsh, a major sex symbol of the era, wearing a fur bikini.

She starred as a prehistoric woman in a film called One Million Years BC, which was half of a

but that week Swindonians were invited to give some thought to another – the Permissive Society.

Although permissiveness had yet to make many inroads in Swindon, or for that matter anywhere beyond the rough circle where the M25 now sits, there was plenty of debate about it.

An Adver story began: “A call to oppose the relaxation of obscenity laws was made to Swindon women last night – and though some rallied to the banner, there were those who had their doubts about the battle.

“The campaign commander is Sir Gerald Nabarro, who is enlisting public support against recent moves to get the obscenity laws repealed.

“His advocate at last night’s Standing Conference of Women’s Organisations in Swindon was County Councillor Mrs Daphne Bampton, who mentioned the conclusions of an Arts Council working party.”

Sir Gerald was a high-profile,

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Have we got it right? Do you recognise yourself in these pictures?

Each week, we dig through the Adver archives, but we aren’t always 100 per cent sure which year the pictures are from. If you know better, please let us know. Emai bhudson@swindonadvertiser. co.uk or write to Barrie Hudson, Swindon Advertiser, 100 Victoria Road, Swindon SN1 3BE

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MONDAY, JULY 21, 1969

“THE Pastor of the Assembly of God Church, King William Street, Swindon Pastor DW Clarke, conducted the marriage service of one of his daughters on Saturday.

Miss Priscilla Clarke, second daughter of Mr and Mrs Clarke, Eastcott Hill, Swindon, married Mr Alexander James Brown, only son of Mr and Mrs C Brown, of St Andrew’s Close, Wroughton, at the King William Street church. Given away by her brother, Mr David Clarke, the bride wore an A-line dress with lace top and train and carried a pear-shaped bouquet of white roses.”

TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1969

“SCENES of Lechlade will be included in a BBC television serial which is to be screened in November.

The town has been used for some of the location work for a serial featuring the highly popular detective Paul Temple, the creation of top thriller writer Francis Durbridge. Starring in the title role will be Francis Matthews and co-stars include Ros Drinkwater, June Innes and Blake Bullen. Producer is Alan Bromley. A spokesman for the BBC in London said: ‘The reason why Lechlade was chosen was because that area of Gloucestershire was a suitable location for some of the scenes we wanted to film.’”

ouble bill coming to the ABC – now he Savoy pub – with historical antasy adventure film She, starring ormer Bond Girl Ursula Andress.

The half-page broadsheet showed he two actresses side by side, ut also found space for minor haracters including a pterodactyl.

Another sign of the times was the eplacement of vast swathes of dim nd cramped town and city centres y shiny new office buildings.

Unfortunately it was sometimes ifficult to find occupants.

The most notorious example was the Centre Point building in London, but Swindon was touched y the phenomenon.

“No Takers for Swindon’s Giant Office Block,” said the headline ver a story about two blocks in Fleming Way. One, known at the time as the Oddenino building, still stands bove what is now Debenhams.

Only two of its six storeys had been rovisionally let.

Nearby was the structure then nown as the AEU Building, which was also empty – although dmittedly an ongoing official wrangle over rear access didn’t o much to enhance its appeal to otential occupants.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1969

“BUSINESS at the finance committee meeting of the Highworth Rural Council yesterday included raising the council’s interest rate on money advanced for housing.

Last year’s accounts were also presented. But it all came to a full stop when two members left the chamber to attend a funeral. With only seven members present in the holiday period, those remaining did not make a quorum, and the chairman, Coun Michael Bran, ruled a break of half an hour until the absent members returned.”

THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1969

“THE unemployed figure in Swindon and Marlborough rose slightly in Swindon and Marlborough in July, compared with the previous month, but this is probably due to the employers’ reluctance to engage new staff around holiday time. On Monday, July 14, there were 1,210 registered as unemployed at Swindon and Marlborough Employment Exchanges – 62 more than in June. There was a slight increase in the men’s register from those last employed in engineering, but the main increase has come from those in the distribution trades.”

FRIDAY, JULY 25,1969

“THE summer night calm of the little village of Ogbourne St Andrew was rippled yesterday when a large white car came to a halt at the Wheatsheaf Inn car park just before closing time –and out stepped a man whose aim in life is to make people laugh, Ken Dodd.

Doddy, minus his Knotty Ash Diddymen, stepped into the inn to quench his thirst and the curtains were drawn to preserve the privacy of the private bar. This led to a rumour that Doddy was not signing any autographs, but in spite of this a small knot of fans waited outside the inn, autograph books and pens at the ready. When Doddy emerged he not only signed autograph books but gave them photographs tattifilariously titivated. He also signed autographs in the inn, and now Miss Christine Gilbert, Miss Bonny Stein, Mrs Jenny Fraser and Sally, Stephen and Penny Hawkins have tangible evidence of the night Doddy passed their way.”

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Monday, July 17, 2017

July 16, 1965 AN image of our closest planetary neighbour dominated our front page on July 16,1965.

Admittedly it was vague enough to be mistaken for anything from a puff of smoke to water sprayed from a hose, but Mariner IV’s shot of Mars still counted as a wonder of science.

We said: “The first historic picture of Mars, relayed to Pasadena from Mariner IV across 150m miles of space, leaves unsolved the centuries-old riddle about possible life on the mysterious Red Planet.

“But it gave monitoring scientists a first important clue to the planet’s surface in the area photographed by the spacecraft.”

Before the mission, scientists had been obliged to rely on what they saw through telescopes on earth. Some speculated that fissures in the surface were canals and indicated that intelligent life either existed on the planet or had done so.

A decade later, America’s two Viking landers would deliver close-up images of the landscape, paving the way for future probes which have sent back pictures far clearer than many people’s holiday snaps.

There was also some spacefaring news from America’s Cold War technology rival the Soviet Union. Its national news agency reported that five weatheranalysis satellites had been launched from a single rocket.

Our main front page story was about something that had occurred back on earth, although it involved people with an interest in Heaven.

The Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Rt Rev Edward Henderson, declared the benefice of Saxton with Charlynch in Somerset vacant after a church court decided the vicar was guilty of unbecoming conduct.

The Rev Geoffrey Bevan Watkins Grubb, 58, was found to have taken down two notices on parochial church council meetings and defaced another. He had also neglected his duties by failing “…to cooperate with the council and failed to account to them for moneys given to or received by him for church expenses.”

The judgment, which ran to six typewritten pages, was pasted on to sheets of cardboard and attached with brass-headed nails to the West Door of Wells Cathedral.

In Europe, the presidents of France and Italy led the opening ceremony of what was then the world’s largest road tunnel. It stretched 7.3 miles beneath Mont Blanc and had taken more than six years to construct.

The tunnel has long been surpassed by others in length.

In 1999 38 people died there when a truck caught fire. The flames spread to tunnel fittings, producing toxic smoke.

Across the South of England there was bad news for commuters as the region’s train drivers worked to rule over a pay dispute. As union leaders and officials held talks, a skeleton service operated.

In local news, 14 Swindon boys had been offered places at Marlborough College, and the police issued an artist’s impression of a nasty criminal.

The man specialised in conning his way into senior citizens’ homes and conning them into parting with valuable antiques in exchange for tiny payments.

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