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So who did win Badders.

  Due to technical problems and having to do two weeks as the official photographer at the Swindon Festival of Literature, I have not rounded up the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials with the final positions. Well that is now rectified. Copy from: http://www.badminton-horse.co.uk/index.php/jonathan-paget-wins-the-mitsubishi-motors-badminton-horse-trials/ Jonathan Paget wins the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials In a nail-biting […]

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Pinehurst end season with a win.

Pinehurst Netball Club finished the season with a win against Bournemouth. So what is Netball? I remember the girls playing netball at school while we got muddy playing football, but the senior netball played at Pinehurst is fast furious and definitely a NON contact sport. Once again thanks to Wikipedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_netball Netball is a ball […]

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Mayor plays Croquet.

The Mayor of Swindon took to the mallet – not the Timmy type but the Croquet type – to open the new croquet Lawns in Moredon The Lawns, as reported in an earlier report, have received funding from several sources and Cllr Mick Bray and the president of the Croquet Association formally hit the first […]

Badminton Day 1

Badminton Day 1

Grassroots Competition results. We have a Badminton Champion in the Sportswindon area. Yes a young lady from Kempsford  just over the river in Gloucestershire came third in the Grassroots BE100 class on the first day of the championship Well done Isabel MacKeeman riding her own Ruscai Little Arkansas and good luck in the future hope […]

Welcome to Badminton.

Welcome to Badminton.

A four day feast of top equestrian action takes place on the Badminton Estate on the Wiltshire Gloucestershire boarder. The Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials and the Grass Roots Championships take place this weekend, with the Duchess of Cornwall presenting the prizes on Sunday after the Show Jumping has finished.           […]

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Fancy a walk in the park.

Swindon Council Leisure department have put together a programme for the month of may that encourages walking. There is a PDF available at the following link: http://www.leisureinswindon.co.uk/downloads/library/65-walking_festival_brochure.pdf Events start in Lydiard Park on Saturday 4th May with  Get Walking Day Step out with this sociable three-mile guided walk around the spring flowers at Lydiard Park […]

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Air Ambulance charity lifted by star studded football match.

Stars from soaps and sport joined forces to raise cash for the Wiltshire Air Ambulance at Swindon Town’s County Ground. The club has adopted the charity as its charity of the year and pulled in such names as Adam Woodyatt, Khali Best, Tony Discipline, Matt Lapinskas and Jamie Borthwick from Eastenders, TOWIE star James Argent, […]

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League hits town – Swindon St. George start their season.

Rugby League is back and Swindon St. George are in the build-up to a summer of rough and tumble at Swindon’s Rugby Club Greenbridge complex. Is it the most physically demanding of team sports? Come and watch. The seasons fixtures are below. For those who want more information on the sport Wikipedia says this about […]