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Sainsbury's declared dolphin friendly Two chances to re-cycle
your Waste Paper
Are you encouraging dolphin killers when you open
a can of tuna fish?
Each year an estimated 150,000 plus Thursday 7 June (until 430pm) Saturday 16 June 10am 4pm

Sunday 17 June 10am - 12noon
dolphins are killed in the eastern tropi- Freshbrook School Car Park
cal Pacific Ocean when they're trapped Help us to raise money and care Toothill Village Centre
Proceeds to the West Swindon
in fishing nets. The yellowfin tuna swim for the environment.

under the dolphins making it easy for If you need your papers Animal and Wildlife Protection
League. "Thanks to everybody
fishermen to spot them. The Bath based collected then phone 872450.

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Soci- Proceeds to Friends of for bringing over 3 tons to our
collection in May,"
ety has been pressing supermarkets Freshbrook School,
chains and food firms to prove their tuna is
not caught at the expense of dolphins.
So far only Sainsbury's own brand tuna fish can be considered Glass facts
dolphin-friendly because the firm marks its cans with a cede
which allows it to trace the contents right back to the fishing boat Unfortunately records
in the seas around Fiji, where the traditional pole and line method are not kept of how
is used. much glass is collected
The Bath based Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society has at individual bottle
published 'The Good Tuna Guide' which gives an up to date banks in the Borough,
picture of which tuna is caught without killing dolphins. The guide so we don't know how
is available from The Good Tuna Guide, 20 West Lea Road, Bath much West Swindon
BA1 3RL. Send a large SAE. redsidents are saving.
Thamesdown has 17 sites.
Dolphin hero makes Bristol visit By contrast there are only 15 across the whole of Wiltshire.
Pioneering American conservationist Sam LaBudde visits Britain Locally there are glass collection points at Toothill and Freshbrook
this month and will be speaking in Bristol on 21 June. Village Centres and the West Swindon Centre.
Posing as a ship's cook, he secretly filmed the methods used to In 1985, nine sites produced 212 tonnes; in 1988, 480 tonnes.
fish for tuna and the carnage on dolphins. His film 'Where Have With the increase in sites to 17 last year, the amount recycled rose
All the Dolphins gone? and the accompanying campaign to 550 tonnes.
prompted total tuna boycotts in the U.S.A. new legislation and Are you making good use of all the glass you buy, once you've
pressure on the U.S. Government to act on the slaughter of enjoyed the contents? It's not only wine and beer bottles. Mint
dolphins. A stunning film according to those who have seen it. sauce, pickle, jam and coffee jars - any glass container - can be
Tickets are £3 from the Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society, recycled.
address above. Thanks to Bob Pixton for supplying the information.

Homeward bound from Brazil
Adverting Feature
A student from Washpool, Shaw is she's not learning as much Portu-
nearing the end of an exciting year guese as she should. She's teach-
spent working in Brazil. ing English in a mission school.
Swindon College student Juli- She's also helps in an orphanage
ette Smith, pictured below, decided where the waifs and strays picked
"Citicorp British National has just announced the launch of to take a year off before going to up off the street are cared for. Her
their latest product, LifeLine.
university and applied toTheProj- letters comment on the extremes of
Unlike conventional life assurance, the benefits of LifeLine
ect Trust, an educational charity wealth and poverty. She's a sensi-
can be enjoyed in your own lifetime. based in the Hebrides. After a tough tive person and she's said how hard
It pays cash if you die, or cash if you don't. selection weekend she was given it's been to work in the home; I
Although serious illnesses are no longer invariably fatal the chance to teach English at a don't think she could have coped
they may require prolonged recuperation, special treatment, school in Brazil and travelled last with it if she had gone there when
or equipment like a wheelchair for a more comfortable life. August to the coastal city of Recife. she first arrived.
Life Line provides the cash, when it is needed most. There have been times when her "I was amazed when shedecided
It is no longer true to say that the only people to benefit mother Ann Smith has thought she to go abroad after her A levels. She
from your life assurance are your relatives. You can have the might be returning home early. found it difficult at first because
"The economic conditions are very she's never taught children but she's
benefit yourself, while you are still alive. difficult out there," she said. "Prices enjoying the experience."
Citicorp British National confirm that the Plan will pay out
shoot up daily and she's said her al- Juliette returns from Brazil in
as quickly as possible, once the diagnosis is confirmed. A lowance does not go very far." August and leaves in September
spokesman said, "It's distressing enough for people to be told "Juliette is staying with a local for Sussex University to take a
that they have a serious illness, without keeping them waiting family, but as the wife is American degree in Anthropology.
for the cash that they may need to make life more endurable.
"We'll pay either the amount of cover, or the Plan's cash
value, whichever is greater."
The Plan also carries some valuable extra benefits, such as
automatic inflation-linking which will prevent the level of
cover from being eroded by inflation.
Further details can be obtained from Phil Rashid, Jane
Thomas or Mike Baldwin at your local branch of Citicorp
British National, telephone number (0793) 615829

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