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Central: Fans of flame-grilled burgers will be fired up to learn that the Burger King branch which has been closed since it was badly damaged by…

Central: Fans of flame-grilled burgers will be fired up to learn that the Burger King branch which has been closed since it was badly damaged by…

Planning applications approved and refused in Swindon this week

Grange Park: The owner of 41 Rycote Close, Jalil Ansari, has applied to build an identical house on to the side of his property, creating another…

Wroughton: Trippers enjoying a visit to Barbury Castle Country park could soon be enjoying Italian-style ice cream there. Sophia Mazzotta of…

Town Centre: More flats might be added to the conversion of a former bank building in Commercial Road.

Highworth: A former meeting hall which has been used as a children’s nursery and playgroup could be converted into a house.

By Advertiser Reporter Bamir Cukaj and, right, the Jurys Inn Pictures: WILTSHIRE POLICE/ADVER A MEMBER of a drugs line that had taken over a room at the Jury’s Inn hotel was arrested when he came downstairs to pay for a takeaway food delivery. Now, the prime mover in the Walker drugs line, which was estimated to have made £90,000 over 81 days in late 2017 and early 2018, has been jailed for almost six years.  Sending Bamir Cukaj ...

BRAZEN thieves stole a motorbike worth thousands of pounds off a drive in Old Walcot just two days after the owner had bought it. Liam O’Halloran only passed his test in October 2020 and was saving up to buy a bike. He has been furloughed from his job as a hairdresser but started working as a delivery driver in January to afford it. He thought his new Honda CBR 600 would be safe locked under a cover, parked behind a vehicle on his drive – but woke up to find the bike had been stolen i...

THREE friends all diagnosed with leukaemia have set up a support group for those battling the disease.  Kim Hannah, Ben Peters and Sarah Burkitt met because of cancer. Their Facebook group, called Our Journey & Awareness, was launched this month. Kim, from Old Walcot, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia back in September 2019 after feeling unwell for a few weeks.  The 25-year-old mum said: “I kept going back and forth from doctors for them to say ‘you’re fine’. I had re...