Swindon

[rogerzilla]

There was even a fight in the players' tunnel after the game.  Someone apparently stuck one on the Oxford manager, who looks like a cage fighter just released from Strangeways.

[Dibdib]

[spots Baggies crest on mugshot wiki photo]

Well, you can take the lad out of West Bromwich... 

[Basil]

Boing boing Baggies.   

[Wowbagger]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-deputy-mayor-owen-lister-558677

The philosophy of Harold Shipman is alive and well in Swindon.

[Polar Bear]

What a thoroughly obnoxious oaf.   

[TheLurker]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-deputy-mayor-owen-lister-558677

The philosophy of Harold Shipman is alive and well in Swindon.

That's not the Deputy Mayor of Swindon, that's Rambling Syd Rumpo that is.

[hellymedic]

That story is originally dated 2005!

It is still relevant today, I accept.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

OK, but later on, 2008:

Coun Dr Owen Lister, ..a Conservative councillor since 2000, caused uproar in 2006 when he suggested it would be preferable to guillotine looked-after children with severe emotional and behavioural difficulties than to provide expensive out-of-borough placements for them.' He went further to suggest it was a waste of money to provide school places to educate disabled children He was given a one-month suspension by the council's standards committee after being found guilty on two counts of bringing the authority into disrepute.

Coun Lister, a former GP, has been a member of UKIP for around a year, due to his strong views on Europe. But the matter only became public when a letter announcing that Coun Lister had joined the party was sent to the Adver. Deputy leader of the Conservative group, Fionuala Foley said they had no choice but to fire Dr Lister. She said: "Membership of the Conservative Party and of UKIP is not compatible.

[Nuncio]

This story's nearing its 10 year anniversary. It probably shouldn't, but the photo and caption make me chuckle.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/8683196.im-trapped-in-my-own-home/

[rogerzilla]

The Oasis is closing for good (Swindon's only attraction besides the tacky "designer" outlet).  The utterly useless council outsourced it to notoriously sharp operators GLL, who seem to specialise in running stuff into the ground.

[Auntie Helen]

My husband was just on a zoom call to the subsidiary in the UK. He said to me, “they are in Swindon, what do you know about it?”

So I told him about this thread.

Swindon is twinned with Salzgitter in Germany which Klaus says is very similar.