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Pull out Update '89
the Link Centre's Cut out the Stralfors
supplement listing all Wildcats Ice
the courses and Hockey team's
attractions taking place fixture list
this autumn - see page 15

W. Swindon Health Services under threat Saitway

A local councillor is worried that Health Thamesdown councillor Tony Free, who
Visitors, District Nurses and Midwives will represents Toothill, Westlea and Shaw, said School opens
be thrown out of their offices in West Swin- in an exclusive comment to The Link, "I am
don. determined that the only centre for primary
The lease for three houses at 4 - 6 Deer- health care servingthe 30,000 peopleof West
hurst Way from Thamesdown. Borough Swindon is maintained until the Health
Council has now expired and it proposes to Centre is built next to the Link Centre.
reclaim the properties and return them to "I will be calling a meeting between
use as much needed council houses. Thamesdown's Housing Department and
The Swindon Health Authority has used the Health Authority to reslove the prob-
the houses as a base for primary health care lem. I understand the desperate need for
workers since 1977, in the absence of a per- council housing, but the already bulging
manent health centre to serve the area. population of West Swindon must have good
In addition to being a local base for health health care.
service staff, the ground floor of the houses Some parts like Shaw and Sparcells are
are used for baby clinics, ante-natal classes, very isolated. It's essential that the health
immunisation sessions and a point for re- workers have a local base."
ceiving health advice. New health facilities - see page 23.

Freshbrook's pub looks for a new name

Link Magazine readers Inn which meets the needs
are being given the of the local community.
chance to name a pub The Link ran a com-
- for the second time. petition on behalf of
Whitbread in mid-1982 to
find a name for the pub
Whitbread Severn Inns before it opened the first
are spending £250,000 on time around. With such a West Swindon's seventh primary school
the re-development of The major re-furbishment was opened on 6 July by The Mayor of
Cornflower at Freshbrook underway, the owners are Thamesdown, Councillor Ken Savage.
Village Centre. Work has looking for a new name to Children from Salt Way presented dances,
already started to turn It go with the new Image. music, movement and poetry to an audi-
Into a traditional friendly Turn to page 6 to fill in ance of dignatories and parents.
Right: Making a break for and return the suggetion Above, Jodie Milner and Charlotte Smart
it. A play horse from The form. You could win a presentthe Mayoress with a welcoming bou-
Cornflower pub garden meal for four and a case of quet. On page 9, Zosia Durniat tells the
falls at the first fence. wine. story of an eighteenth century salt worker.