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14 The Link Magazine • Janua ry 1998
LETTER FROM WESTMINSTER

Is your kitchen suffering Hope for a crime reduced New Year
from sagging doors
and droopy drawers? by Swindon North MP Michael Wills
We can repair with new hinges rime was one of the issues gent steps to tackle this problem.
and solid base drawers
that most worried people This we are now doing. The
• Replacement door service (60 styles) C during the election. Home Secretary has brought for-
• New worktops. over 80 textured or On doorstep after doorstep, I ward measures to ensure young
smooth styles
heard about how crime seemed to offenders are brought more rap-
• Additional cabinets in matching colours be spiralling out of control. Much idly to book. But punishment and
• Complete kitchens in rigid or flatpack of the crime that most directly af- restitution is not enough if we are
• Full installation by local craftsmen fects most people - vandalism and to rid people of the fear of crime.
To view in the comfort of your own home, theft and violence, is committed We must change the climate in
by young men. And it was a cen- which crime can flourish.
tral part of the Labour Party's So the Government has launched
manifesto that we would take ur- a £3.5 billion programme to get
mainly young people off welfare
and into work. Only if we offer
young people the opportunity to
Wedding Receptions at Lydiard Park
get a job and get on in life will we
remove the hopelessness that has
proved to be such a fertile breed-
ing ground for crime. on early years education and why
We also need to recognise that one of the first tasks of the newly
problems can start very early in formed Social Exclusion Unit is to
life. There is lots of evidence to tackle truancy.
show that if children are given A New Year always brings new
-i.
proper support and care early in hopes in with it. I hope that 1998
life they are much less likely to will be a year when we see the first
The perfect setting for an occasion to remember offend as they grow up. Too much signs that we are beginning to
crime is the result of young chil- tackle the blight of crime. People
The management centre at Lydiard House is now able dren who have either been ex- must be able to live their lives free
to cater exclusively for wedding receptions. cluded from school or played tru- of fear. And the measures this
For information, please telephone 01793 770062. ant. Government has already taken, I
This is one reason why the Gov- believe, gives hope that now this
HTS Lydiard Park, Lydiard Tregoze, Swindon SN5 9PA
ernment is putting such emphasis may once again be possible.

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