• Swindon Viewpoint is a local community TV channel based in, and serving Swindon. In more than half a century of history, it has been through several incarnations;...
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  • local concern, Swindon Viewpoint was sold to the public of Swindon for £1 and an elected board of directors set up to oversee it. Viewpoint thus became the...
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    Swindon (/ˈswɪndən/ ) is a town in Wiltshire, England. At the time of the 2021 Census the population of the built-up area was 183,638, making it the largest...
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  • continues after it was sold to the public of Swindon for £1. 1980 April – Regular programming on Swindon Viewpoint ends when funding dries up. but continues...
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  • Probably the longest standing community television service in the UK is Swindon Viewpoint, which is over 40 years old. It claims to operate according to the...
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  • 2008. The station manager is former BBC Wiltshire Sound, GWR FM and Swindon Viewpoint presenter, Shirley Ludford. Aside from Shirley being paid part-time...
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  • premiere of the 1964 historical war film Zulu, starring Michael Caine. Swindon Viewpoint's experimental phase ends when EMI decides to pull out of funding the...
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    Radio Thamesmead in Thamesmead, South East London and Radio Swindon Viewpoint in Swindon, Wiltshire. Cable relays of early BBC stations (in areas where...
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  • Telecommunications launch. They are Sheffield Cablevision, The Bristol Channel and Swindon Viewpoint. They join Greenwich Cablevision which had launched the previous year...
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  • to the public of Swindon for £1. 1977 No events. 1978 No events. 1979 No events. 1980 April – Regular programming on Swindon Viewpoint ends when funding...
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  • activists of the time. The services provided by Bristol Channel and Swindon Viewpoint favoured the latter emphasis and aimed to involve their viewers in...
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    Wiltshire's Heritage" website A video about North Meadow shown on Swindon Viewpoint 51°39′00″N 1°51′56″W / 51.65012°N 1.86553°W / 51.65012; -1.86553...
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  • Wellingborough Cablevision Sheffield Cablevision Greenwich Cablevision Swindon Viewpoint Swindon Cable Starview The bus broke down, but the show goes on The Independent...
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  • pandemic". In Your Area. 31 August 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021. "Swindon Viewpoint". "Special honour for troops at ceremony". The Wiltshire Gazette and...
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    television coverage of a public meeting in Swindon in 1984 over the ratecapping of Thamesdown borough council, from the archive of Swindon Viewpoint....
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  • Greenwich only. Volunteer-run in later years. — — — Swindon Viewpoint EMI and Radio Rentals 1980 Swindon only. Closed as staffed operation in 1980, continued...
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  • described as "a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties" living in Swindon, Wiltshire. Although Christopher's condition is not stated, the book's...
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    "Settlers". Oxford Museum of Natural History. Wood, Michael (25 May 2012). "Viewpoint: The time Britain slid into chaos". BBC News. "Life in the eleventh century"...
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    Mehdi Hasan (category People from Swindon)
    "features a broad range of opinions and ideas—not just his". Hasan was born in Swindon to Indian Shia Muslim parents from the city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh...
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  • programmes on the BBC. Guest interviewee Interest the Boy in Nature - Viewpoint '86 (TV series) - Series 1, Episode 9. Huw Wheldon by His Friends - BBC's...
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    Energy: The archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture, Swindon: English Heritage, pp. 210–211, ISBN 1-85074-718-0 Akhavan, Jacqueline...
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    Hydrotherapy (category Articles needing more viewpoints from December 2024)
    Bentley. pp. 18–88. Shifrin, Malcolm (2015). Victorian Turkish baths. Swindon: Historic England. ISBN 978-1-84802-230-0. Shifrin, Malcolm (22 May 2024)...
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    Gaza war protests in the United Kingdom (category Articles needing more viewpoints from January 2025)
    instance, in Leeds, Blackburn, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham, Oxford, Swindon, Bristol, Norwich, Brighton, Southampton — Wales, including in Cardiff...
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    British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014. "Studies in the History of Swindon". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October...
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  • been tailored to emphasize a more well-rounded athlete, to reflect that viewpoint on strongman as a whole, and in the interests of increased popularity...
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  • Liberty". Workers Liberty. Retrieved 12 June 2018. "Socialist Viewpoint". Socialist Viewpoint. Retrieved 12 June 2018. "Stop the War Coalition". www.stopwar...
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  • Tenmangu Shinto Shrine, trails around Imayama Mountain, Umagase Scenic viewpoint and more locations in Japan September Fringing Coral Reef in Australia...
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    Wrexham on 9 June 2023. On 20 August, following a 5–5 draw at home to Swindon Town, Foster announced his retirement from professional football, believing...
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    include: London Heathrow Airport Slough Maidenhead Reading Newbury E05 Swindon Bath Bristol West of Bristol, the E30 crosses the River Severn over the...
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    for transfer to the Princess Alexandra Hospital at RAF Wroughton, near Swindon. Throughout the conflict, officials of the International Committee of the...
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