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2 Disaster due to strike West Swindon
on 26 February!
Carolyn Phil I i p po BA(Arch) Architectural Designer Fortunately it's only on paper. But practise rest centre staff. Children
people living in the area are being and pets are welcome too.
Personal Service for all your Building Plans invited to play an active part in an Go along and add the authentic touch.
Local Authority Approvals exercise which will help the emer- The more people that turn up, the
Domestic Extensions & Alterations a Speciality gency services, local authorities and more of a challenge it will be for the
Period & Modern
voluntary agencies to plan for an organisers. So if you're free for a
Independent Kitchen Design
effective response to a major real- couple of hours on the morning of
Swindon 616605 (Freshbrook) Enquiries welcome anytime
life civil emergency. the 26th (the exercise will run from
Being held at Greendown Com- lOam - 12.30pm) why not go along
",Jrsst to let you HAIR REMOVAL BY THE munity School, the exercise - on to Greendown School, in Grange
know about the ZAHRA METHOD Wednesday, 26 February - will in- Park Way. Your time will be well
volve the setting up of a reception spent helping to train other people
diet. I've lost
and rest centre for people made in the role they may well have to
pounds!" SUGARING homeless in the 'disaster.' play in a real emergency. There's
Banish all unwanted hair Members of the public who come free tea or coffee and biscuits too!
'7 said you along will each be given a role to act The exercise is being run by Wilt-
Book an appointment with
could do it with out (typical examples might be a shire County Council's Social Serv-
DOREEN
the help of a your full-time local tricky medical problem, or a home ices Department in conjunction with
Cambridge QUALIFIED ZAHRA PRACTITIONER left with the cooker on), in order to Thamesdown Borough Council.
Counsellor." In the PRIVACY of her spacious house
and her well-fitted treatment room Caravan man wins stay of eviction
the ( ?iibrld e Diet you can relax and enjoy Doreen
We A 130 name petition signed by after delivering the petition on 23
DEVELOPED BY DOCTORS OVER 20 YEARS treating you in comfort, Grange Park residents has shown January, his supporters think that
For details of your local Counsellor, RING DOREEN NOW! how strongly they want a caravan they have more time to negotiate.
call Rebecca Qifforde (Westlea) dweller to live where he has been for Petition organiser Jim Strutton
on 873201 SWINDON 876590 the last fourteen years - long before said Thamesdown Council were
they arrived. willing to accept the land with Bert
Bert Cheeseman, 65, featured on on it as long as Bradley install mains
the Link's front page last month, has water and drainage. 'For a modest
lived in a caravan off Hay Lane since outlay to connect him up to the
ERMIN 1978, on a site licensed to him by mains, Bradley will resolve the mat-
land owners Bradley Homes. ter to everybody's liking; but they
WINDOWS Just before Christmas the com- seem more interested in getting him
pany tried to evict him with three off the site."
days notice, so that the site could be Bradley Director Graham White,
handed over to Thamesdown as said it would cost a fortune to sup-
public open space. ply mains services and suggested
Bert is well known to people walk- that Bert should accept the perma-
ing on Shaw Ridge and his many nent accomodation on offer from
friends rallied around to defend his Thamesdown. He added that the
rights and stop any chance of an company was willing to move him
immediate eviction. to another site closeby, but this
Bradley gave Bert an official no- would be on a temporary basis as
For conservatories and windows in uPVC tice to quit by the end of January, but the land would be sold for housing.
or aluminium with hardwood surround lnki M
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