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OPEN TO ALL 5-12 YEARS
Mon. 28th July - Fri 22nd Aug.
Games, Arts & Crafts, Puppet
Show, Treasure Hunt, Ganges,
Trips, Tuck Shop and lots more.
Come along at 11am, Link
Centre. Bring Your own Lunch.
Info. from Sarah or Nicky on
871212 ext 234.
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TOOTHILL • FRESHBROOK • WESTLEA • SHAW

ROYAL WEDDING - 23rd JULY
AT THE TOOT AND WHISTLE
Linda Scully would like all West Swindon
to join them for a Barbeque and Disco.
also an Andy & Fergie Lookalike Comp-
Children's Fun starts at 6pm, Adults
A disturbing report presented to the Schools
and Disco from 8pm.
sub-Committee of Wiltshire county Council
suggests children living in Grange Park should
be schooled at a "re-locatable" building on the GOLD CARD
Westlea School site. Thamesdown Council have introduced a
special scheme for people receiving Unemploy-
A site designated for a primary school in
-ment or Supplementary Benefit, Family Income
Grange Park, next to Greendown was not put
Supplement or Housing Benefit. You AND non-
into use a few years ago; Costains have now
built houses on it. The County now seem to earning dependants(wives, husband and children)
think that numbers at Freshbrook School will receive a GOLD CARD which gives low cost
rise to an unacceptably high level between now access to a wide range of recreation and leisure
activities in Thamesdown. Swimming, Ice Skat-
and 1990, i.e. 800 by September 1987 and rising.
-ing, Squash etc., for only 25p a visit. The
However, under the new Access to Information
GOLD CARD costs nothing and you can get
Act, the report does not indicate what other
details from the Link Centre, Oasis or 1-4,
reports they have used to arrive at the numbers.
Euclid Street, Swindon.
The Council is not in favour of acquiring another
site, though none is available in Grange Park.
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The County Council believe that numbers of
children will drop back by year 2000 and there
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will be surplus buildings. Hence they are look-
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hall, toilets, and offices which would be ro
surrounded by paired mobile classrooms. When
use of the buildings reduces, the school would
be moved to Swindon's northern expansion! rya
The report makes no mention of the distance U O
parents would have to travel from Grange Park U
to Westlea - between 4 and 14 miles - or the ro
traffic congestion on Langstone Way, Westlea
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caused by the many parents who will use cars. o^-

Summer gong ro
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Would any residents of West Swindon who roa)-
experience the annual 'smell' which wafts UC?C?
across the area each summer from the surr- E a
ounding fields please contact Alan Winmill
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County Councillor), 1 The Holbeins, Freshbrook
tel: 875129. More complaints are needed before
the problem can be investigated.