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6 WESTLEA
Parents causing road dangers for children

Keep cars away from school gates' says Westlea resident
Wiltshire County Council has recently agreed to employ a school crossing person on Westlea Drive, some 400
yards from the school entrance. But Andrew Basson, from Whittington Road, believes patents parking on
both sides of Langstone Way, outside the school, are causing a major pedestrian hazard.
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'The congestion right outside the have been taught, but they can't see Although there are yellow lines
+ Extra sockets school gates is a big problem from round the parked cars a few yards painted within the school gates, they
+ Security Lighting 8.45am to 9am and then later at away. It's extremely dangerous. end when they meet the public high-
+ Affordable Prices around 3pm," said Andrew. "The children being driven to way. Whilst he does not want to see
+ No Call Out Fee 'There is one narrow lane between school are not in danger. But the lines in the road, he thought they
two lines of parked vehicles, with cars driven by their parents are ac- may be necessary if parents do not
First Class Work cars weaving in and out of empty tually endangering other children cooperate
by Qualified Engineer spaces to get by You see parents who walk They could be their class- Westlea School headteacher Neil
withyoung children leaningout into mates. I just wish parents would Griffiths said he was very concerned
Phone Lee
the road trying to see if there's a car think about what they are doing." by the way parents park in the main
on Swindon 763177 coming. I often see children at the Andrew thinks there should be a road and the dangers it creates. "I
curb looking both ways like they crossing person appointed outside hope parents would be a lot more
the school gate, but would also like responsible when considering
to see a few parking tickets given where to park. At the moment
NO MORE out on the grounds of obstruction thoughtlessness is puttingchildxnn's
PLUMBING and causing a hazard. lives at risk," he said.
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Children look back on recent history

Top juniors at Westlea School have
been studying the changes in Swin-
don since World War H. But, as the
The region's exciting majority of people have moved to
the town quite recently,it has proved
new star attraction a bit of a problem finding the infor-
* Bounty Boat Slide * mation they need.
The children have acquired maps,
photographs and old newspapers
and also fromThamesdown Council and the
Evening Advertiser, and have talked
* New Wave Machine to many people about what Swin-
don was like after the war and dur-
ing the 1950s.
Oasis Leisure Centre They also looked at the total
North Star Avenue change that has taken place around
Swindon SN2 1EP their homes and school, before they
Tel: (0793) 533404 Recreation Se— were built during the 1980s. The
and 533405 BOROUGH OF Link magazine has supplied photo- Lucille Kit pin and Lisa Clifforde study-
graphs of West Swindon during its ing photographs of the Link Centre in
development. The Link magazine collection