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34 The Link Magazine • November 2001
Sainsbury's takes LETTERS TO THE LINK
Play the
Piano smoking seriously Should be sent to the address on page 4 by 12th of the month

Learn to Sing - at last Unauthorised use of parking spaces for people with
Phone Swindon 340437 After a long running debate in disabilities at the West Swindon Centre
for further information The Link with articles and letters From James Trew, Ravenglass Road, Westlea
since last February about smok- I can sympathise with Fleur Perry since disappeared. Before the
ing in the restaurant at who in the October Link corn- present parking arrangements
Sainsbury's Bridgemead - and plained at healthy people using were laid out there used to be per-
complaints from customers at parking spaces reserved for those manent wooden notice boards
stores thoughout Britain - the with disabilities, warning of clamping for unauthor-
f.. i' Auto Cli mate Control company has undertaken a full On the morning of Wednesday ised use of places reserved for disa-
MOBILE AUTO AuB CONDITIONING scale review of its policy towards 26 September it was cold with a bled persons and these boards were
Service and repair at home or work smoking. light spattering of rain and all the situated in the actual parking area.
on cars, coaches, trucks & tractors Why cannot these boards be re-
Call 01793 486694 or 0794 603 6307 disabled parking spaces were oc- placed and the present security
for free advice and estimates cupied in Car Park B at the West
CITB Reeistered • INSTVAC Member Swindon Centre, close to Coopers' people be given a franchise to
Chemist. Three vehicles were dis- clamp and charge a release fee,
playing valid badges, two were which used to be £30?
displaying clocks which mean The row of spaces reserved for
BUSINESS CARDS nothing without a valid badge and disabled persons extending from
all the rest were unauthorised. This The Trawlerman to the Link Cen-
200 - £24
is not unusual. tre are often occupied by unau-
LETTERHEADS Parents with toddlers often look thorised users. At lunchtime I have
200 - £28 upon the disabled parking spaces seen cars and vans parked in these
as an over-flow car park but they spaces with the drivers still sitting
should appreciate that disabled in them eating their fish and chips.
i
"During the summer voting parking spaces are legally enforce- Other unauthorised drivers are
cards were given to customers," able whereas parent and toddler in the betting shop, video shop
DECOTEX said Bridgemead store manager spaces are only concessionary. and hairdressers. I, too, have seen
Robin Ireland. "The returned cards Incidentally, some parents have energetic females running into the
Painter & Decorator were sent to head office where the an odd idea of a 'toddler.' We of- Link Centre from cars parked in
decision is being handled at board ten see eight or nine year olds leap spaces reserved for the disabled.
Specialist Artexing level. out of cars in the parent and tod- Warning notices must be re-
"Sainsbury's wants to see if there dler area and run into the centre. stored to the actual sites and clamp-
Tel: (01793) 791388 is a clear consensus across the coun- The flimsy 'warning of clamp- ing enforced. After a few cars have
try or if it still has to be handled on ing' notices stuck on the windows been clamped, the rest will soon
a store by store basis. The decision of the centre entrance have long get the message.
Grass cutting will be based on customer feed-
back rather than personal views."
Hedge trimming All one faith
Link reader Steven Walker from From P Strange, Church Walk, Rodbourne Cheney, an Anglican, but still a
Gardens tidied Grange Park, who has led the cam- member of the Christian faith
Odd jobs, fence repairs, etc paign against Sainsbury's resist- In the feature on Deaconess Maureen Spinks in the October Link she is
Sensible prices ance to changing its policy at referred to as a member of the Methodist faith and her successor as a
Chris Reed: 538839 or Bridgemead said he awaited the member of the Baptist faith.
decision with interest.
mobile: 07702 285865 They are in fact both members of the Christian faith, but belong to
different denominations of that faith.
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