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                                No. 132 • March 1993 •  Circulation 11,500
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    Local youngsters            Wiltshire Fest' comes to the west                      'Doing our bit'
       bullied by TV           West Swindon will see a spectacular collection of balloons in August.   in March
                               Along with music and family attractions, the Wiltshire Festival at Lydiard
     presenter Kilroy          Park promises to be an amazing event. More details on page 3.  Below,   Organisers of Swindon's big effort
   A group of West Swindon teenag-  TV personality Nicholas Parsons with children from Salt Way School at   to help cancer charities want local
   ers have slammed television pre-  the launch of the Wiltshire Festival in early February   groups, clubs and pub goers to get
   senter Robert Kilroy Silk after they                                               behind their efforts in March.
   were victims of his interview tech-                                                 A number of big events like a
   nique on his 9 February morning                                                   gala dinner and auction, a helium
   show about bullying.                                                              balloon race and a celebrity go-kart
     They claim Kilroy set them up to                                                challenge are being organised, but
   take the blame for bullying and                                                   could you run an event which in-
   ignored the fact that most of them                                                 volves the localcommurntyin some
   had also been victims.                                                            way to help Swindon's Propect
     The WiltshireYouthService was                                                   Foundation, C.A.L.M. and the Im-
   asked by Kilroy Television if some                                                perial Cancer Research Fund?
   young people would be willing to                                                    'Doing our bit' coordinatorTony
   appear in a studio discussion. Lo-                                                Martin said, "This is abigSwindon
   cal youth worker Carl Bowen asked                                                 effort to help local charities. We've
   some teenagers and they agreed.                                                   got some big events taking place,
     Each youngster had a 15 to 30                                                   but we'd also like to involve peo-
   minute telephone conversation                                                      ple in community groups, mates
   with Julian Mears, the pro-                                                       who get together in the pub for a
   gramme's AssistantProducer, who                                                   drink and work colleagues. If you
   said the studio discussion would                                                  can organise an event, please con-
   be open and balanced, without                                                     tact me on 535258."
   judgements or condemnation. The                                                     Turn to page 2 for a list of events
   same assurances were given                                                        during Doing our bit' week.
   shortly before the recordingstarted.
     But once 'on-air' the six teenag-
   ers quickly realised that they were                                                  Comic Relief
   being manipulated byKilmy. Also                                                    Become a fireman for the day
   in the audience were other teenag-                                                  in return for a donation to Comic
   ers who were being bullied at                                                       Relief. Turn to page 3fordetails.
   school, parents of young people
              Continued on page 2                                                     Kick the habit.
                                                                                      A local chemist will donate £1
                                                                                      to Comic Relief  for anybody
    Two great competitions                                                            who starts an anti-smoking
        Pages 13 and 14                                                               programme. Details on page 9.




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