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Twinning Marlborough
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I see in the latest G&H that some members of the council (well, the now ex-mayor) think that Marlborough should be twinned with another town.
I have lived in several places which were "Twinned" but never saw the point. The only people to benefit seemed to be the councillors (now there is a surpri...
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Councillors representing who??
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Well I guess it was inevitable .... Marlborough Town Council has tonight plumbed new depths!
Tonight was the night that the 'inner circle' of Councillors sat and deliberated which Councillors should serve on each of the two Standing Committees - Finance & General Purposes and Recreation &a...
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Star Wars
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May the Forth be with you!
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Inside track Marlborough
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Hello, I am writing a supplement on Marlborough for Wiltshire Life. Can any of you tell me the best/worst things about your town? I won't be able to publish diatribes mentioning names, but would love to know what makes Marlborough people tick. And does anyone know anythin...
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Historical Marlborough
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I noticed Richard's comments in the guestbook going on about all the plaques around town describing historical aspects of Marlborough.
To start the ball rolling, I lived in the High Street and the house was occupied in Victorian times by the Hancock family. One brother developed the proce...
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new school
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Is the new St Johns school ever going to be built?? Now it seems Kennet have to reduce the number of affordable homes on the Savernake site from 50% to 25% so enough money can be raised. Why not build 200 houses instead of 178? Make the developer build suitable access from London Road. This way Marlboroug...
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Music Concerts
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I just mentioned on the discussion page about football, for those who paying attention (at about 3am UK time) that I was going on to ask about concerts.
I'm in my 40s and fairly conventional and have been really lucky with the visiting artists to Houston in the last year or so.
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The New Pope
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Being a non catholic myself I take offence to the new Pope declaring that the rest of christandom is lesser than the catholic church. after a review of international and national comments on the new Pope's views, here's were he stands:
1. Will not make any compromises on abortion, embryonic stem ce...
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Football
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Let's see if this starts something.
Who supports/follows which team?
I followed Leeds United from about 1970 because I had lived there. They also happened to be one of the top teams in Europe at the time.
My dad saw Swindon beat The Arsenal at Wembley in the League Cup Final....
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new Computer
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My computer was showing signs of stress so after 7 years of hard labour I decided a new one was on the cards ..........collected a "bare bones" unit from Portsmouth(case with fans and psu, mainboard and processor....AMD Athlon 64 3500mgz. 1024 mb RAm ) bought a new 160gb SATA hard...
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What will you vote on May 5th
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Just a thought ........what will you vote in the upcoming election Con, Lab, Lib or other be interesting to see if our results are the same come the day.
I would like to see things stay the way they are........my mortgage has another 4 years to run.............so low interest rates, low unemploymen...
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Britain needs a change of government
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Blair has in my opinion been stuffing things up for a long time now and trying all sorts of band aid measures - as well as suporting those other twats - Howard (OZ) and Bush ( the AmericanChimpo). I like Michael Howards manifesto and he has kept it simple: more police; cleaner hospitals; lower taxes; sch...
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Missing Things
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Seeing Teedee's comment about setting up a farmer's market got me thinking. Out here in Texas, and all of the USA for all I know, you cannot get decent bacon, only streaky. For a country that provides you with fifty types of everything, it is puzzling and frustrating.
I stocked up at the...
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Webcam....pics and voting
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Right the webcam is now back on the "other" menu BUT it's out of action for a while, as the person who very kindly runs it, is updating and servicing equipment.
The other thing is, I know there should some new pictures of Marlborough on the site...............but what who...
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Site change
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Sorry but the moment I have been putting off for years has arrived and if you are reading this you have already seen the changes..............I had to find a way putting all the links in a less cluttered format as it was starting to be a case of "can't see the wood for the trees"........so many links were o...
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Online feedback
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Hi folks,
By way of introduction, let me just say that I am a Marlborough Town Councillor, and I have just discovered this forum!
Some of you will already know/guess who I am, and hopefully my user name (given to me originally by the Gazette & Herald!) will further c...
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charles and camilla - didn't they do well!!
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well after all these years they finally tied the knot! - they must be the happiest couple in christiandom right now!
Here's how I see it all!
1. Charles has always been in love with Camilla from his young man days, but of course couldn't marry her - she was already married
2. Pressure was put on him t...
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apathetic democracy
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the saying used to go - "the price of democracy is eternal vigilance" and still stands true - but the more common phrase in UK now (and other parts of the globe) " non-use of democracy leads to eternal apathy!
The English turn out in dribbling numbers for national elections and even less for local and t...
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Residents' Parking Scheme
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If you live in Marlborough and have a problem parking your car anywhere NOW is the time to speak. The Town Council are interested to know just how many of us have a problem and in which areas of the town we live. If you can pop into the Town Council website www.marlboroughtowncouncil.gov.u...
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red faced councilors
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An independent audit, costing the town more than £7,000, has been carried out because the mayor, Coun Graham Francis and Town Clerk Graham Gittins had not adhered to the council's accounting rules. Should these two people be removed, or should they be made to pay the £7,000
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Public transport
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Could anyone here update me on the number 70 bus service? Is it going to continue? If not do we not at least deserve a replacement? Not everyone can drive (myself being one) and the need to visit Swindon for many services is real. Marlborough has no NHS Dentist as well as the hospital being located there....
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LIFE IN MARLBOROUGH???
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Hiya everyone,
Just wondering where everyone is??
Anyone got any questions they want to ask about Marlborough?
Anyone got any comments on Marlborough?
Anyone want to say anything??
Come on-be brave-SPEAK UP!!
Lorna
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Famous People
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Anyone know of any famous people from Marlborough
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St. Johns School and DR HAZELWOOD
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Hiya,
Today in The Daily Telegraph there is an article about Dr Hazlewood scrapping homework for 12 year olds!
When all the 12 year olds started (year 7) the parents were told that "regualar homework is an essential element of learning and contriuibutes to the development of sound study habits"...
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New Houses on school site
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Am I the only one with serious concerns over this development on the St. johns Savernake site, don't get me wrong I have nothing against the school going on to one site but with at least 170 houses going up there is very little they are going to do to improve the access to the site (widen it and new road marki...
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Theatre or cinema?
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Do you want the theatre or the cinema or both ..... or neither............please bear in mind the theatre will increase your Council TAX every year and we will have at least three theatres in the town very soon....they cannot all survive without stealing money from us through Council TAX.......
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Royal Wedding??
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Just heard on the news that Prince Charles is to marry Camilla Park & Ride in the next few months!! I suppose it was on the cards after the theatricals here when we allowed them to visit us last year.....
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Happy Easter
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HAPPY EASTER to you all. Hope the Easter Bunny is good to you.
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Spring has Sprung
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Where is everyone? I guess Spring must have Sprung and everyone is busy with spring chores. What are some of your spring chores? -- Edited by pan at 11:54, 2005-03-22
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Link the word (virtual conga)
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word....ie .....book....read...words.!  Its just a bit of fun
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Riverbank theatre/cinema
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once again the theatre is in the news ....most people quite like the idea of a cinema but the theatre is only wanted by a minority....with nearly every theatre in Britain in financial difficulties because of lack of support, why do we need one? I can only see this being a millstone around the neck every p...
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Wilts Gazette is it biased?
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I think the Wilts Gazette is biased to towards Pewsey news ...maybe Pewsey has more news? but it is very obvious that if a similar thing happens in Marlborough the Pewsey event will get more page space, a bigger write up or more pictures. I am not alone in this theory as people have written to the Gazette o...
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Great Western Hospital
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Has anyone else had experiance of this Hospital lately ...good or bad?
I am not going to say any more as I don't want to lead the thread, but I will post on here eventually
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Carnival
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It is now almost certain there will be no carnival this year......I have found a mention of a carnival in 1905....so this could be Marlborough's 100th year.
thoughts anyone.....but if I hear "THEY OUGHT TO" I will be round with a big stick...it is your carnival and as such it is WE OUGHT TO.............
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Wouldnt it be nice
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Wouldnt it be nice if all the space in the new industrial site at Salisbury Road was used for a Aldi or Lidl superstore. We do a fair bit of shopping at these stores but have to travel to Swindon. Prices are less and the quality is good. And there would be free parking!!
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this could be a conversation with myself
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Just wondered why very few people are using this forum you don't have to sign on if you don't want to and you can post anonymously if you wish so no one will now who you are and apart from swearing and vicious attacks on others ( the offending article will be removed) you can say what you like..........you c...
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pot holed roads
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Any one else noticed that all the roads in marlborough are full of potholes and even some loose drain covers I should think the cyclists are having real difficulties
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Pigeon cull
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Saw this in the paper ...the Town council want to have a pigeon cull to cut down on these flying rats who are causing so much damage....
What are your feelings and will you vote yes or no?
Do you care? most people in Marlborough couldn't give two hoots for anything but you should do it's y...
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Council tax UP AGAIN!!!!
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Oh isn't that nice our kennet councillors have voted themselves a pay rise in excesss of 50% It looks like our council tax will go up by at least 12% a year , now I don't now about you but my wages have only gone up by at most 3% a year.... it doesn't take a genius to realise th...
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Rubbish
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What do think of the rubbbish in the hedgerows around Marlborough and the roads into Marlborough? does it give a bad impression of us? if so leave your comments here and phone clarence on 0800 23 23 23 and tell them about it, lets try and clean up our town!
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Dog mess
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It's job to be polite about this, but how do you feel about all the dog mess on the common? I know there are some responsible owners who clean up after their dogs but for every responsible owner there appears to be 3 bad ones, the common is covered in dog muck, you can't walk across it without getting covere...
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New Years Resolutions
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Lets hear about your New Years Resolutions ????
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Prince Harry
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What is your reaction to Prince Harry's outfit at a fancy dress party?
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XMAS PRESSIES!!!
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So, everyone should be cured of the christmas hangovers so now you are all sober (or should be) what did everyone get for christmas? What presents did you get which you hated???
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Christmas tree picture
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http://www.marlboroughwilts.co.uk/christmastree2004
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White Christmas
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I see from the webcam that you still don't have snow. Here in my part of Canada we had a big storm yesterday which left us with quite a lot of the white stuff. It was hard to judge the amount as it was blowing and drifting, probably about 10"-12". It is nice for Christmas, but only if you are not travelling. We...
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Happy New Year
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I HATE New Year Parties so I stay at home and in order to finish the year without too many problems, I file away all that paperwork that has been hanging around for weeks! No months I mean! It feels really good.
I sometimes write a few New Year Resolutions, only achievable ones and have something...
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Taking off the weight
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Okay everyone out there, let's hear your views and methods of shedding the extra pounds we've gained over the holiday season. -- Edited by pan at 14:00, 2004-12-26
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Temp Accommodation Needed
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Hi guys
My name is Allan i'm 50 yrs young adn looking for temp Accommodation in the Marlborough area.
I start work at the hospital on the 4th Jan 05 as a social worker (dont laugh).
I would want a roon for 3 nights a week. tuesday - thrusday. I enjoy out door activity, diving, photography, Kayaking,...
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I'm UP
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Sad isn't it up at 5.15 this morning to put the turkey in the incinerator....oops oven anyway Happy Christmas to everyone.
Rob
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