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Swindon election: Conservatives will stay in power with council majority after Labour losses THE Conservatives have won a majority in Swindon's Borough Council and will keep control of the local authority. Labour’s hopes of maintaining their seats in the Euclid Street chamber, bolstered by holds in Old Town, Mannington & Western and Gorsehill & Pinehurst were crushed in the third tranche of wards counted.  Three ‘red wall’ seats all fell to the Conservatives. Rodbourne Cheney, Penhill and Upper Stratton and even Central Ward were taken by the Tories.  With the Conservative ho...

By Advertiser Reporter Ewan Burrows Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE A TEENAGER was groomed by a notorious Swindon drug gang from the age of 12, a court heard. Ewan Burrows, now 18, was said to have “slipped through the net” although concerns about his vulnerabilities were raised at the time. Now, all youths associated with the Eldene drugs network now automatically referred to a government body as potential victims of modern-day slavery. But after learning that the teenager already had convictions for dealing crack and heroin as a yo...

By Advertiser Reporter Ewan Burrows Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE A TEENAGER was groomed by a notorious Swindon drug gang from the age of 12, a court heard. Ewan Burrows, now 18, was said to have “slipped through the net” although concerns about his vulnerabilities were raised at the time. Now, all youths associated with the Eldene drugs network now automatically referred to a government body as potential victims of modern-day slavery. But after learning that the teenager already had convictions for dealing crack and heroin as a yo...

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A 16-year-old youth was charged with possession of cannabis and a Section 4a public order offence. Jordan Henze, 18, from Meadowcroft, Stratton St Margaret was charged with possession with intent to supply class A and B drugs and possession of criminal property. He has been remanded in custody following the warrants carried out around the parish. Kyle Thomas, who is 19 years old, from Pinnocks Place, Upper Stratton, was charged with possession of cannabis. He was later released on unconditional bail. And an 18-year-old man from Upper Stratton was released under investigation for p...