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Celebrating 50 Years of Baking

Celebrating 50 Years of Baking

Celebrating 50 Years of Baking. From marzipan mishaps to master baker – Swindon-born master baker, Paul Chambers is celebrating 50 years in the trade.

Paul once found himself banished from cookery lessons for throwing marzipan. But that early mischief didn’t stop him from building a remarkable career in baking.

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The Grief Opera

The Grief Opera

The Grief Opera. The Grief Opera, a moving musical journey through grief and loss, comes to Christ Church, Swindon. On Saturday 1st November 2025, Christ Church in Old Town, Swindon, will host The Grief Opera, a powerful production that uses music and storytelling to explore one of life’s deepest challenges: grief.

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SALOS Bringing Evita to Town

SALOS Bringing Evita to Town

SALOS Bringing Evita to Town. And rehearsals are well under way for the first-ever production of Evita staged in Swindon. Thus bringing Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s legendary musical to local audiences for the very first time.

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New Care Segment on 105.5

New Care Segment on 105.5

New Care Segment on 105.5. Leading care services podcast You Care, I Care expands into a prime slot at local community radio station, SWINDON 105.5. In so doing it’s bringing awareness of the demands of the social care system.

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Historic Walled Garden Welcomes Visitors

Historic Walled Garden Welcomes Visitors

Historic Walled Garden Welcomes Visitors. Wiltshire’s Grade II-listed Bothy Gardens has launched its 2025 corporate season in style. They welcomed The National Trust, Europe’s largest conservation charity, for a day of training and team building inside its historic walled garden.

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Swindon Artist Leslie Cole

Swindon Artist Leslie Cole

I don’t use Twitter (it’s still Twitter to me) much these days – it’s all rather grim. But there’s a couple of local folk I follow on there so I pop on from time to time to engage with them. In a recent chat with them, the topic of Swindon in 50 Artists arose. I posited that, were one to write such a thing (and no I’m not), the challenge would lie not finding 50 artists, but in stopping at 50. One member of the conversation disputed that there’d be so many. So, in the space of three tweets, and off the top of my head, I came up with close to twenty-five. My point was made.

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Swindon Care Show Revamped

Swindon Care Show Revamped

Swindon Care Show Revamped. Three entrepreneurs have come together to re-launch The Care Show (Swindon). And to take it into the future as a regular annual event to showcase the best services in social care and wellbeing.

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West Swindon – What the eye doesn’t see

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