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LETTER FROM WESTMINSTER

OffTheWall interior design A town in the countryside
Our service is Swindon is often seen as the epitome of a modern town - a built-up,
Made to professional and Colour busy home to global companies producing state of the art technology,
schemes
comprehensive wites North Swindon MP Michael Wills.
swags, & tails. offering solutions Murals
All other valances, for every type of Paint But just a short drive and safer access. And
R-blinds, London, etc. away from the cutting where rights of way are
home and budget effects edge technology of blocked, preventing the
Free measuring & quotations , Honda and Motorola, public from exercising
Full fitting service available y Changing Rooms • Fabrics
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Handmade footstools to order , " s in Swindon now are quiet country lanes, their right to access, new
Re-upholstery of dining chairs etc. • Storage hedgerows, hills and powers will make it
Free consultation green fields as far as the easier to open up areas.
• Flooring
e-mail: eye can see. The laws on rights of
At the last election, way have not changed
[email protected]
Labour promised to in 100 years; the bill
Tel: 01793 870659 open up access to the will make them more
1 Apsley House Arcade, Wootton Bassett,
Mob: 07990 914 192 countryside, so that relevant to landowners
people can enjoy moun- and users.
tains, moors, heaths and Of course, there will
downs. be safeguards to ensure
That promise is now the public does not
CH!^RISMA
being passed into law with the damage the very countryside they
BLINDS Countryside and Rights of Way visit to enjoy. There will be restric-
Large Range • Quality Fabrics Bill, currently being debated in tions on activities such as making
Westminster. When it becomes fires, driving and generally dam-
law, it will give the public access to aging land. In breaking these re-
ERTIC ROLLER VENETIANl some 4 million acres of open space, strictions, ramblers will be mak-
BLIND f&L11V g much of which will be opened up ing themselves trespassers and in
rom £3 m C20 for the first time. Barriers to some some cases their activities may con-
of our most beautiful countryside stitute a criminal offence.
All types of blinds including pleated, wood venetians, [ a^t^;n will be removed and the public As well as opening up land in
awning & canopies. ` V will have the right to walk across this way, the Government has put
Full fittting & measuring service or cash and carry discounts
Se areas that have been locked away forward proposals for two new
Factory Showroom open at BSS House, Cheney Manor Ind. Estate, Swindon for too long. national parks in the South Downs
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Open: Monda - Frida , 9.30am - 5.30pm • Saturda 10.00am - 4.00om Other measures in the bill will and the New Forest. This would
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make 4,000 miles of rights of way a mean that more of Britain's most
no-go area for cars, giving horse beautiful natural areas would be
riders, walkers and cyclists better preserved for the country.
SUPERGLIDE Nearly caught out by salesman
Toni Hopkins from Deerhurst Way, Toothill writes
WARDROBES I was very upset to see the article in the July Link about Ann Curwen
who bought a water treatment system from a pressure salesman.
The I also took up an offer very good. So I cancelled.
of a no obligation free I put the phone down
water test. The man and cried with relief: £67.67
i itri j very nice but so pushy, be in trouble. Over 10 years
who carried it out was
a month was too much; if
we suddenly had a finan-
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cial emergency we would
with a promise of ten
years free washing
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for a treatment system that
pure soap to go with the
-
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.. R rT r i'i products that contained we would be £8,120 poorer
costs only £2,997.
pure water. And no
questions asked, imme- And then the salesman
diate removal of the sys- Toni Hopkins, phoned again to offer two
u l ., , r f N=a tem free if you were not cried with relief new deals. By this time I
happy. At 7pm one was getting angry. I am a
* Superb sliding door wardrobes all made tomeasure Thursday night, with two small normal 34 year old with my own
in our workshops children running round, we signed child minding business and con-
the HP papers. I was then told trol over the household budget. I
* Door panels in laminates, real wood veneers, mirro fitting would be Saturday, two can see how others could have been
* We can also supply and install: fitted kitchens & days after the first appointment. talked into this offer. This pres-
Being self-employed I like to sure selling should be illegal.
bedroom furniture
check and double check, so I My heart goes out to Ann and
* Over 40 finishes available thought I would cancel the Satur- her family. I hope she can clear up
day appointment to give myself this awful agreement she seems
* Agents for Hideaway wall beds time. When I 'phoned the price stuck with.
Call now for
came down,then I was offered a 4 • Swindon Council's trading stand-
free estimate month payment free period, as ards officer Robert Taylour says:
long as I took the Saturday ap- 'read the small print and take as
on 01793 pointment. By this time I was very much time as possible. Shop
suspicious, they were trying so around. If you are under pressure
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hard to sell me a product that was to buy, walk away from the deal.