Culture News & Updates
- 15th September 2010
Want to look and feel like a million dollars? Well, NICK JONES Hairdressing Salon in Swindon come highly recommended for making their customers feel just like that! Let yourself be pampered by his friendly, highly qualified and experienced staff.
- 13th September 2010
The 5th Annual Free Youth Festival held in Old Town, Swindon has attracted over 3,000 youngsters,aged mainly between 13 and 18. The Festival featured local bands as well as urban arts and adrenaline zones.
- 10th September 2010
A Wootton Bassett school in Swindon is taking a proactive approach to tackling unauthorised absence with Truancy Call technology which allows school staff to make first-day contact with parents of absent children by email, text message and voice calling.
- 6th September 2010
The Magic Roundabout in Swindon was constructed in 1972 and consists of 5 mini-roundabouts arranged in a circle. It's name comes from the popular children's tv series 'The Magic Roundabout'. Although, It's official name used to be 'County Islands'!
- 2nd September 2010
A new exhibition showing off some of the work from Swindon's collection of modern art has been viewed by over 3000 people. The 'Lure of Water' is on display at the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery in Bath Road.
- 1st September 2010
Imagery from a NASA spacecraft has revealed that the Moon has shrunk significantly in recent times. Instruments placed by the Apollo astronauts have recorded the rumbling, crunching sounds of lunar shrinkage carrying on in just the last few decades.
- 31st August 2010
Libya plans to spend $500 billion over the next decade on a host of projects. This is in stark contrast to the Libya of just over a decade ago, when it was struggling under leader Gadhafi's support for terrorism and the country's mass destruction program.
- 28th August 2010
Honey bee numbers have been declining almost everywhere due to a pesticide-resistant mite called Varroa. Now a beekeeper from Swindon has discovered a strain of bee that destroys the parasite through grooming.
- 13th August 2010
Heavy rain, mudslides bring more misery to China killing at least 29 people and trapping more than 10,500 in the latest natural disaster to hit the country.
- 9th August 2010
Swindon's shoppers enjoyed a Swindon History lesson through some local youngsters adaptation of Dr.Who!