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Pictures: ADVER/CPS WESSEX A DAD-of-two who sped away from police at 120mph then hit 60mph on residential roads in north Swindon has been jailed for eight months.  Jailing Joshua Steele, who has never passed a driving test, Judge Peter Crabtree said the 25-year-old had shown an utter disregard for other road users. One of those other drivers, a woman whose car was almost struck when Steele’s Corsa skipped red lights at Blunsdon Hill, was so shaken up by the near miss she’d had to pull over.  Judge Crabtree told the Pinehurst man, who has never passed his driving test: “I accep...

LOCAL ELECTIONS Clockwise from top left: Joseph Polson (Lib Dem), Carl Jones (Conservative), Andrew Osborne (Independent), Ray Ballman (Labour) and Andy Bentley (Green) Housing, crime and anti-social behaviour are all things that matter to the voters of Gorse Hill and Pinehurst.  The ward is one of the smallest in Swindon, but one of the most densely populated. It also suffers among the highest rates of deprivation in Swindon and the south west.  The Pinehurst West area is in the top five of all 132 different areas in Swindon for deprivation in terms of income, employment, education a...

Trash collections returning to normal in Holyoke as residents complain of delays Updated Mar 10, 2021; Posted Mar 10, 2021 Facebook Share HOLYOKE — The city’s winter of discontent turned from snow to delayed trash and recycling pickups, but Mayor Alex B. Morse expects service to improve in the coming days. Residents continue to voice complaints about trash and recycling sitting on tree belts for days, long past the scheduled weekly pickups. Officials attribute the delays to a staff shortage and equipment problems at the Department of Public Works. In the neighborhood around McMahon Scho...

Holyoke firefighters battle early morning garage fire in fridgid temperatures Updated Jan 30, 2021; Posted Jan 30, 2021 Holyoke firefighters braved early morning fridgid temperatures and flames as they battled a Pinehurst Road garage fire Saturday morning. No one was injured. Facebook Share Holyoke firefighters battled a garage fire and fridge temperatures Saturday morning while extinguishing a 5:30 a.m. blaze. Holyoke Fire Department spokesperson Capt. Kevin Cavagnac said firefighters responded to a report of smoke in the area of Pinehurst Road and found a detached garage at 86 Pinehurst ...

CTV shows Christopher Bonner arriving at the house in Rosebery Street Picture: CPS WESSEX A knifepoint robber was remanded into custody after he was almost an hour late for his court hearing. Christopher Bonner’s sentencing hearing had been listed for 11.30am at Swindon Crown Court on Thursday. When the 51-year-old failed to show up, Judge Jason Taylor QC issued a warrant for the man’s arrest. His co-defendant in the robbery, sex worker Kerrie Mclane, whose client Bonner held at knifepoint and who arrived at the court hearing 20 minutes late, was bailed. The ink had barely dried o...