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38 The Link Magazine • January 2002
Call to tidy up Freshbrook in January
Start the New Year with a concern for your community is the message from the Freshbrook and Grange Park Neighbourhood Environmental
Safety Team (NeST).
The group, made up of representatives from community groups, Equipment, bags and gloves will be available and a community
schools, business, Swindon Council's crime and disorder team and the service order team will also be on hand to help make inroads into the
police, are calling upon residents of the area to turn out for a community litter which infests shrub beds and pathways.
tidy up around Freshbrook Village Centre on Saturday 19 January, For details about the NeST in both Freshbrook and Toothill and
10am to 12.30pm, starting at the community centre where tea and perhaps to attend meetings every two months to discuss safety issues,
biscuits will be provided. call Tim Hughes on 466509.

Vandals strike another school
Following the November Link's report of vandal attacks on Brook Field School, Peatmoor Community Primary School has become the latest
local school to fall victim to unnecessary damage.
The latest incident saw a play have been used for drug taking.
house used by playgroup and re- He said, "It's really sad to see peo-
ception children being overturned ple starting to abuse the school. I
and a door was ripped off a shed. put the shed together when the
Caretaker Chris Moody noticed school first opened two years ago
candle wax in the play house dur- and it has brought pleasure to so
ing November and thought teen- many children. Why do people
agers may have used it as a den, have to behave in this way?"
but it also raises fears that it may Head teacher Terri Peacock has
appealed for local people to help
the school tackle the problem. "The
In the Eye attacks happen mainly at week-
Youngsters in Miss Messenger's ends. The police are involved and
are keeping a watch on the school,
year 5 and 6 class at Catherine
Wayte School, Abbey Meads, spent but I would like people to be vigi-
the Autumn studying rivers. lant for us. If they see anything
In September they visited St suspicious please report it to the
John's lock at Lechlade to study police straight away."
land use and the effect of the river. The damage at Peatmoor follows
In mid-November they did the a series of incidents at Brook Field
same in London, including a top that resulted in the school closing
Look what they've done. Peatmoor School caretaker Chris Moody with Luke
down view from the London Eye. its grounds outside of school hours.
Matthews, Keaton Fisher, Tessa Clayfield, Emily Saunders
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