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32 The Link Magazine • December 2001
Tough trip for Norman in the Spirit of Swindon
KA STYLE Norman Butler, Swindon's intrepid rower, is now about half way across the Atlantic Ocean with his

partner Phil Scantlebury from Poole, and is hoping to reach Barbados around 18 December where he will
Specialising in o — be reunited with his wife Linda and baby daughter Melissa.
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FEEL GREAT wind at all, or rowing The Oct f Swindon and twin town Salzgitter meeting Norman at the West Swindon Centre
it for much of Mayors of
We have the fastest
and most effective weight loss the last five weeks, they have strug- In early November Phil's old Read full reports of Norman's 'phone
programme available. gled to maintain a satisfactory daily back problem flared up, which re- calls at www.swindonlink.com
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started having a nibble. "It was
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Aeic'1 i'iA/ f 2 . CCU heavier to row. We were still at the
time, but he followed and contin-
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Why not let back in Swindon. We really did think
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us handle Linda has also been in regular TH. E^,
contact with Norman. He called
everything heron 15 November to say that the TTN"
wind had picked up. "Even though
from start to the temperature was 43 degrees, I
Norman sounded in much better
finish? spirits and he was happy to re-
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