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'I H E No. 250 • March 2003 • Circulation 22,000 THE BATTERY
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Expeditioners chill out Nobby Abby's fund
Tickets on sale for event at
on a Lydiard House. See page 34
A ^ h Pharmacies under threat
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Mayor's attendant community service. See page 10.
and chauffeur Nobby
Clarke's boyhood
dream was to become
:;:•: ^; ti a jockey.
t Read how he and
Mayor Stan Pajak
went to the races with
members of the Food
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club at Freshbrook
Community Centre on
page 2.
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Arctic racer Norman Butler meets DofE Gold hikers cook Carol Gibbons
Sabrina Sheikh and Danny Whiting on page 30 and Olive Dobson Fully licenced
Tandoori & Balti Restaurant
Wiltshire Festival Book dedicated 6 High Street, Purton
organiser is UK's Tel: 01793 770998/770253
to children TNT
top events man and staff at Fax: 01793 770998
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Read about Andy Cotton is r YE c^,o•^..,M
from Middleleaze who Westlea School Free takeaway delivery
received an award in In March former head- incl. West & North Swindon
February. teacher Neil Griffiths Open: 7 days a week, 5.30pm to midnight
Below, Andy gives publishes a new children's (i ncl Bank Holidays)
Samantha Fox aside Sunday lunch: 12noon - 2.30pm
book about a flamingo who
overcomes all of life's
The Maharajah From
challenges, in memory of Free
park nq I.n.n IuLr n Road w, a
the many happy years p^0ey
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working at Westlea School. ^ymard
See page 32. Mlllicenl I ' parcells
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illustratorJudithBlake from
Grange Park, and Ringo www.themaharajah.co.uk
the Flamingo