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Liberals Support Crippling Local Tax Hikes The Liberals are trying to replace the Council Tax with a Local Income Tax. With a 8% Local & Regional Income Tax, a typical two-earner household could face a bill of £2912 a year!!! The Co... Read More |
| Grant sheds new light on Shelfinch play area The basketball and football area at the Shelfinch play area is to get a makeover. The old floodlight is being replaced and a teen shelter will be placed nearby. Cllr Mary Martin commente... Read More |
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Conservatives find £2.5m housing money Conservative's new style of managing the Council's finances have already resulted in the 'discovery' of £2.5 million of lost money. Labour's track record of endless waste and mismanagement in Swind... Read More |
| Aged 13-19? What to do in West Swindon this summer! There's no excuse to be bored in West Swindon this summer Swindon card holders can swim or skate on fridays FREE - contact the link for details The West Swindon youth workers have their SPLASH event... Read More |
| Link Centre summer skate park starts 30th July The skate park in the Link car park opens again 30th July. It will run to the end of August in the afternoons and evenings. Its open to anyone across Swindon aged 13-19. Its free! ... Read More |
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Council Recovery On Course - Cllr Nick Martin Councillor Nick Martin (Con, Shaw and Nine Elms) says Swindon Council is starting to make progress in shaking Government inspectors off its back. Coun Martin, lead member for corporate reco... Read More |
| Traffic lights at Westmead? No thanks say residents This is a copy of the letter sent to Ioan Rees, head of traffic planning at Swindon Council and copied to the Evening Advertiser following proposals by council officers to put traffic lights on... Read More |
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£192,000 more for Greendown school Swindon's Conservative cabinet voted to allocate a further £192,000 to Greendown school to help with the furniture and equipment for the extension. West Swindon councillors Garry Perkins (lead ... Read More |
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Please note that this local news section is no longer being updated. Now that Robert Buckland and Justin Tomlinson have been elected to Parliam
Swindon’s two new Conservative MPs are to be ‘sworn in’ on Thursday 20 May. The historic ceremony will mean that Justin
Justin and Robert have issued the following statements, reacting to the start of the new Conservative government. Rob
Swindon’s two new Conservative MPs are this morning beginning their first full working week following their historic election victories last
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The Conservatives comfortably retained control of Swindon Borough Council at the local elections on 6 May 2010. The new make-up of the c
Justin Tomlinson was elected as the new Conservative MP for North Swindon with a massive majority over the Labour candidate of 7,060
Robert Buckland was elected MP for South Swindon with a majority of 3,544, beating Labour MP Anne Snelgrove.