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DOUBLE Oliver Tomkins
"A Touch of GLAZING Under 5's Playgroup
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Processing, Spreadsheets for Call for ex-playgroup children
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Tel: Miriam on Swindon Double Glazing Repair & newly hatched chicken
Maintenance Specialist Community Centre
(0793) 527849 There was excitement in a reception Annual General Meeting
(0367) 241040 class atToothill School in May when
an egg hatched in their incubator to Friday 26 June, 7.30pm
reveal lively chicken. Aprojecton All residents invited
DUNCAN RALPH dragons had led the class to take a Toothill Community Centre
SELF DRIVE PALMER look at eggs and see how young Toothill Village Centre
creatures emerge from them.
HIRE PHARMACY Time for Change
Vehicles for Hire Alan Winmill, County Councillor for Toothill, Westlea, Shaw and
at Competitive Rates 3 Deerhuist Way Sparcells explains why he has switched his political allegiance
Vans. Lutons• Estates Toothill Most of you will by now be aware
Cars Mini Bus Perhaps for the last twelve
that I have left the Labour Party and months, I toyed with the idea of
272 Ermin Street Hours of Opening: joined the Conservatives. declaring myself an 'Independent'.
Stratton St. Margaret The dozens of letters and phone But sitting on the fence with no pos-
Swindon Mon - Fri calls I have received applauding my sibility of influencing an adminis-
9a.m. - 1p.m.
Tel: 822193 230p.m. - 6p.m. decision and complementing me on trative group, or an opposition one,
a degree of courage have to be set did not appeal.
Open Daily 9am - 6 pm against one call and one letter of Then Irealised, that likegivingup
Sunda s9am-1ern Telephone: 512063 abuse. smoking, it is easy to 'to put it off' to
Most politicians spend a great deal next week, but a decision has to be
of time trying to persuade others to made sometime. I have made it.
A Councillor, likean MP,is elected
Toothill Chinese Kitchen change their voting pattern. It would to represent the whole of the elector-
be a very boring and un-progress-
ing world if there was never a ate, not just those who vote for him!
English Food and Fish & Chips
change. her. Councillors are not mandated,
Special Chinese Food TakeAway Menu Having lived most of my life asan but tasked to use their best judge-
uncompromising 'left' Socialist, I ment for the benefit of all the elec-
' Tel: 487055 started to question the value of such tors. Ibeievelhavedone this forthe
a society after my visit to the Soviet last seven years and can say with
Sunday 6 - 1130am Union some five years ago. The conviction, that within the Ward,
Monday Closed all day 'blinkers' started to come off! my work has been without any po-
Tuesday 5 - 1130pm More recently, I have tried to ap- litical bias and will continue to be so
Wednesday 12- 1.45pm 5 - 1130pm ply good commonsense business whatever the situation or political
Thursday 12 - 1.45pm 5 - 1130pm practice to the affairs of local gov- persuasion of the person(s) con-
Friday 12 - 1.45pm 5 - 1200am ernment, but frustration with the cerned.
Saturday 12 - 200pm 5 - 1200am dogmatic and doctrinaire slogans Judging by the recent local elec-
that are the stock in trade of many tion results, it would seem that I still
OPEN ALL BANK HOLIDAYS (MONDAY) former colleagues, finally deter- currently represent the majority of
mined me to leave the Labour Party. the Toothill and Shaw electorate!
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