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FRIENDS have paid tribute to a dedicated unsung hero who fought tirelessly for the rights of Swindon tenants.

FRIENDS have paid tribute to a dedicated unsung hero who fought tirelessly for the rights of Swindon tenants.

Clockwise from top left: Francisco Goes (Conservative), Mohammed Miah (Labour), Sharon Newham (Independent) and Dawn Pajak (Liberal Democrat) are standing in Walcot and Park North on May 6 Walcot and Park North represents two separate periods of growth for Swindon – and those eras can be seen geographically.  In the west of the ward, sometimes called Old Walcot, is an area of housing mainly built in the 1930s, butting up to Old Town. Over Queens Drive Walcot East is part of the post-war expansion of Swindon along with Park North – featuring hundreds of mid-century social housing.  ...

The Oasis is so old, and in need of such repair, real doubt has been put on it ever reopening. And if it does, the boss of the leisure specialist running it until November, said it could come back as a visitor attraction rather than a community use centre – and cost users much more. John Watkins a director of Seven Capital, which owns the lease, and Mark Sesnan, the chief executive of GLL, the company that ran the centre until November, told Swindon councillors it was not viable. Mr Sesnan told a task force set up by the council’s scrutiny committee to investigate the centre’s c...

The borough council is to bring in a 'roadworks licensing scheme'. It will mean that water, telecoms, and electrical companies that want to dig up the roads will have to notify the council and get a licence. The council’s cabinet member for highways Coun Maureen Penny told her colleagues in the Conservative administration: “Utility companies have the legal right to place and maintain their apparatus in the public highway and must do so in accordance with legislation and associated codes of practice. This work inevitably causes some disruption at times to road users. “The introdu...