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The Green Party’s candidate for the Swindon & Wiltshire Police & Crime Commissioner office has promised to do away with the role if elected.  Brig Oubridge said he will work with his colleagues in parliament to push for a Wiltshire referendum on whether or not to abolish the office of PCC and revert to the previous Police Authority system.  Mr Oubridge added that if elected he would not take a single penny of the £85,000 salary – with the exception of expenses – and will instead ...

The Green Party’s candidate for the Swindon & Wiltshire Police & Crime Commissioner office has promised to do away with the role if…

AN EGG-CELLENT Easter weekend saw families on the hunt for chocolate in Covingham and friends flocking to Town Gardens for a fundraiser. Sweet shop owner Hannah Fruen said she was overwhelmed by the response to her Easter egg hunt around the neighbourhood which she organised in memory of her best friend Stephanie. Hannah set up tables outside her Mallard Close home with the help of her mum Carol Trueman and friends Laura and Becky, offering goodies from Mama’s Sweet Treats and Fudge and...

Police & Crime Commissioner hopeful Liz Webster The experience of being a victim of a serious crime fired Liz Webster’s desire to be the next police and crime commissioner for Swindon and Wiltshire. The 57-year-old is the mum of Harry Webster who suffered a horrendous hammer attack when he was a pupil at Ridgeway School in 2007. Now the Liberal Democrat candidate for the job of setting policy and budgets for Wiltshire Police has said that was where she started seeing what could be impro...

Liz Webster is standing for the role of Police and Crime Commissioner in Wiltshire The Liberal Democrat candidate for the Wiltshire and Swindon Police and Crime Commissioner role has stood by her policy of abolishing the deputys post. Liz Webster’s plan is to get rid of the appointed position and use the £19,000 annual salary to pay for an officer to work with travellers. Her opponents in the election say they believe the post is necessary to allow the commissioner to understand and ad...

All of the Swindon & Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner candidates have responded to a letter from Trowbridge Town Council asking to share…

Candidates for the post of Police and Crime Commissioner are unanimous in opposing a plan to abolish the deputy PCCs job.

LETTERS have been sent to all four candidates for Wiltshire and Swindon Police and Crime Commissioner asking if they would be willing to share the…

The swimming pool at the Oasis leisure centre OPPOSITION councillors have taken issue with the Conservative administration’s plea to Historic England not to list the Oasis. And the towns former mayor thinks there may be a compelling case to give the 44-year-old leisure centre extra protection. Swindon Borough Council’s cabinet member for heritage and culture Dale Heenan wrote to Historic England asking it not to list the Oasis this week, echoing similar calls from leader David Renard. ...

Kemi Badenoch receives her first vaccination as part of the Novavax 3 trial Picture: PA Black and other ethnic minority Swindonians are being urged to take up invitations to book appointments for the Covid-19 vaccine when they receive them. A task group set up by the borough council after the last health, housing and care overview and scrutiny committee meeting is looking at ways to address the reasons why members of the town’s minority communities have been hit particularly hard ...