Mastodawn

‘Profit prioritised over welfare’: UK’s premier exotic animal hospital to close https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/23/great-western-exotics-avian-animal-hospital-to-close #Birds #VeterinaryMedicine #Animals #UkNews #Pets #AnimalWelfare #Swindon

‘Profit prioritised over welfare’: UK’s premier exotic animal hospital to close

Pet owners fear there is no viable alternative service after Great Western Exotics owner deems business unviable

The Guardian

Patch 22h ago

Why Swindon could be named UK City of Culture

https://feddit.uk/post/46278547

Why Swindon could be named UK City of Culture - Feddit UK

Lemmy

Patch 22h ago

Swindon receives £20m to build new theatre and concert hall

https://feddit.uk/post/46277884

Swindon receives £20m to build new theatre and concert hall - Feddit UK

Lemmy

Peter Sketch 1d ago

Bulbous Buttercup has a very niche habitat around here - it grows in the bits of road verge where the daffodils are, but nowhere else. It flowers early in the season so likes the bits that are spared mowing in early summer but then mown later. Cunning. #WildflowerHour #Swindon #Wiltshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

STREET ART UTOPIA Jan 17, 2024

Mural by Poster One in Swindon, UK for Swindon Paint Fest

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CLondoner92 (New Account)5d ago

🇬🇧 Nine places have been longlisted for #UK #City of #Culture 2029: #Blackpool, Inverness-Highland, Ipswich, #Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, #Portsmouth, #Sheffield, #Swindon and Wrexham. Each will receive £60,000 to develop their full bids, with the winner set to receive £10 million to deliver a year-long cultural programme. Previous winners have seen increased #tourism, investment and local participation. The announcement coincides with over 230 towns registering interest in the inaugural UK Town of Culture competition, open to applications until 31 March 2026. The winner of the City of Culture will be announced later this year.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-city-of-culture-2029-longlist-revealed

UK City of Culture 2029 longlist revealed

Nine places have been longlisted to be the next UK City of Culture in 2029

GOV.UK

Angie Mar 11

Well, man discovered
the park bench
can make a transition
And the rubbish tip
makes a valid form
of nutrition

With discoveries like these,
civilisation agrees
To give itself
a pat on the back

XTC
"Smartest Monkeys"
1992

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L17PFScq4Y4

#80sRock #UKRock #Swindon #Music

The Smartest Monkeys (2001 Remaster)

YouTube

Metro – Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro Mar 2

Inside the rotting leisure centre that inspired Oasis’s name

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/03/02/inside-the-rotting-leisure-centre-that-inspired-oasiss-name-27188986/

Richard Jefferies Museum Mar 2

Props to #Swindon Borough Council for turning up as scheduled to remove the large sign blocking motorists' view of our lovely museum and preparing to add a new pedestrian walkway, plus a dropped kerb to our side entrance!