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Is your PC wiww.pcsearchuk.co.uk Go slow communications for
bugging you? PC Components and 21st Century communities

Call Practical upgrades at Internet Some rural communities are finding it difficult to persuade BT to
Applications Ltd. Armes. convert telephone exchanges to provide high speed broadband
for a friendly service m^ internet, but parts of Swindon's urban area at Taw Hill and Priory
Same day Vale cannot connect either.
• Upgrades • Repairs In t
delivery
• Networking & the internet Taw Hill residents have been
to your frustrated by the lack of service,
• Home visits, collection
& delivery door, two years after first making con-
Or for help getting started, call 7 days tact with BT. Residents' Associa-
tion member Mark Edwards ex-
us days, evenings or weekends on a week!
plained that BT say Taw Hill is too
01793 321361
far from the Blunsdon exchange.
Mobile 07919 263072 Visit our online store and " Despite countless letters and
order online at:
E-mail: [email protected] phone calls to all levels, BT simply
www.practicalapplications.co.uk www.pcsearchuk.co.uk are not interested.
"Although ntl was paid by the
developer Bryant Homes to lay
pipelines all over the development,
uklinks4 ADVANCED AERIAL & they did not start cabelling until
SATELLITE SERVICES September this year, following dis-
cussions with the residents' asso-
There are some Sky Digital ciation, but progress is slow.
authorised installer "The good news is that we had a Perhaps BT has seen these road cross-
great resources quick response from Swindon ing lights at the north end ofOakhurst
FreeView installation company Wireless Edge who pro-
on the Internet. Way, close to Tadpole Lane, and thinks
• On call until 10pm vide high-speed internet using ra- Priory Vale is a rural district. Or do
7 days a week dio waves and a receiver dish the planners think the people buying
But do you know • FM aerials mounted on the house. Within the apartments above 'stable blocks'
where they are? • European & motorised weeks of contact the first house at in the area will be choosing an older
satellite systems Taw Hill was broadband enabled; anode of communication?
• All work guaranteed • Free estimates the service is outstanding."
We do! Half of Priory Vale can now plug tell me they are looking at how to
• Security and CCTV systems
into broadband, but west of overcome the problem, by install-
Tel/Fax: 01793 705945 Oakhurst Way residents face the ing a new cable or building an
www.uklinks4.com Mobile: 07939 425067 same problem as those in Taw Hill. additional exchange. Unfortu-
Sam Allen, spokesman for the nately, the final decision on this
North Swindon Development rests with BT and will be largely
Company, said, "the NSDC ap- determined by financial issues."
preciates just how important high-
Residents who want to support
SG WINDOWS & DOORS speed internet access is for resi- the case for broadband in Priory
CONSERVATORIES
Vale can express their views at
dents and businesses in Priory Vale
www.prioryvale.com and/or call
and we are doing everything we
can to bring broadband through-
UPVC FASCIA &
out the whole area. We are in con- the BT new sites office on 0800 373
529.
INSTALLATIONS GUTTERING stant contact with BT, stressing the • Wireless Edge can be contacted
overwhelming case in favour of on 759215. www.wirelessedge
connecting Priory Vale and they .co.uk
Flower of the north to bloom in 2004
Swindon will soon draw national attention when a sculpture nearly
fifty feet tall is installed in North Swindon later in the year.
Planning permission for the 15 it is important to plan the installa-
metre high stainless steel struc- tion to minimise disruption."
ture to be located at junction 1 on
Thamesdown Drive was granted
at the end of November.
The structure reflects the three ►f
roads that make up the junction
and coloured glass panels will,
when illuminated at night, trans-
form it into a representation of the
Make your dream a reality rare orchis ntoreo, which flowers in
North Swindon.
Swindon Artscape manager,
FENSA Free 3D dimension drawing Celia Yeoman, described the next
REGISTFRED COMPANY • step of the £94,000 project which
References available on request
10 YEAR will be paid for by the North Swin-
GUARANTEE Free survey and quotations don Development Company. "A
project team will meet in January
Tel/Fax 01793 331551 to discuss the next stage of the
commission. Due to the prominent
Mobile 07775 621764 Mobile 07799 284998 location for the sculpture on a cen-
tral island at a busy road junction,