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20 NEWS & VIEWS
New teens disco to be launched
Elizabeth Donovan CIPTAC (Dip.), BABTAC, IFA
BEAUTY THERAPIST after mistakes at nightclub
The Shaw Ridge Open Day on 6 sion to close early had been wrong.
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For appointments or a FREE consultation, youngsters attending a disco for proach to young people in all its
teenagers at Cairos Nightclub. outlets. He said he had written
please ring (0793) 870902
Only ten turned up for the separately to Mrs Whitfield and to
Streetwise disco advertised to last Darren to apologise for the incon-
from 5pm to 8pm, but were told at venience caused and enclosed com-
"Just to let you 630pm that it was closing because plimentary tickets to the Superbowl
/o y
know about the there were not enough people in the with a refund of the entry charge.
diet. I've lost RICH-WOOD house. He said that a new Streetwise
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A good selection
Unfairly treated Gordon Ward, Ron Andrews and Darren Whitfield
of quality hats for
Irate Westlea mum Brenda Disco for under eighteens would be
weddings and Whitfield told The Link that she launched on a Tuesday from 7pm
thought the nightclub had acted ir- to 10pm, starting on 7 May. He
special responsibly by turning out young- added that a lot more thought was
occasions sters when their parents were ex- going into how the disco will be
pecting them to stay for the adver- organised, with competitions and
tised time. "My son Darren had events to make it an exciting and
gone to the Leisure Park with his enjoyable night out for youngsters.
friend Ron Andrews to see a film,
SHAW VETERINARY but were given a token offering them
SOp off the entry. They thought it Link Centre access
CENTRE would be a grown up thing to go to report delay
the nightclub. I was horrified when
they came home to find they had left There has been so much publicity
at half past six and had wandered and such a lot of response to the
SHAW VILLAGE CENTRE around the park and the Link Cen- Link Centre's request for views on
tre until 8 o'clock. what should be done about access to
RAMLEAZE DRIVE, SHAW "With entry at £1.50 and a can of the building that a report due to be
I1 drink at 65p, that's more than a put before Thamesd own Council's
recreation sub-committee in April
weeks pocket money and they
Consultations by Appointment weren't offered a refund. I was irate has been held over until after the
Mon to Fri 8.30am - 6.00pm and made my feelings clear over the local elections.
8.00pm -1 0.00pm 'phone." The council is considering what
Seventeen year old Ron Andrews
9.00am - 1 2.3Opm
Sat from Toothill, who had returned should be done about who should
bepermitted to enter the open access

. . earlier in the day on leave from the centre following a rise in rude and
Army, said he was disgusted when
abusive behaviour towards both
SHAW
• LATE NIGHT VILLAGE the nightclub refused to refund the users and staff by people hanging
around the building.
entry charge.
CENTRE
SURGERIES Peggy Walsh fmmToothil, whose Centre coordinator John Fisher
grandson attended the disco,agreed said that there had so much comment
with Mrs Whitfield that discos for from user groups and staff that a
• 24 HOUR teenagers was an excellent idea but committee report in April would
GRANGE . the arrangements so far were just not have reflected the range of
EMERGENCY PARK UNI( not good enough. opinions. He said that a longer re-
•
CENTRE "Young people in West Swindon port would be presented to the new
TREATMENT really need somethinglike this," said committee once it had been formed

FRESHBRXK WESTLEA Brenda. "It gives them a chance to after the elections.
TOOT H ILL enjoy themselves in a safe place.
They need to be treated as young Let The Link know what
you think about the needs
TEL: 881919 Cairos manager Mike Hilkene, of young people in
adults."
who had just returned to work after West Swindon.
Details on page 3.
2 a serious operation, said the dcci-