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The Link Magazine • May 2004
Is your PC Pensioner picket forces Tesco to call the police
bugging you? Irate older residents from Shaw took to protesting at the end of March outside Swindon's main Tesco
store in their ongoing battle to stop the company closing the post office at Shaw Village Centre when the
local store is converted into a Tesco Express in August.
Call Practical
Applications Ltd. 9 Zimmer frames in one hand and
for a friendly service placards in the other they took up
a prominent position at the Ocotal
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Way store entrance until frustrated
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security staff called the police, who
Home visits, collection
wisely took their time about arriv-
& delivery
ing to mediate. But having run out
Or for help getting started, call of leaflets the protesters decided it
us days, evenings or weekends on
was time to take their leave.
01793 321361 "I thought we were successful
Mobile 07919 263072 in taking our message to Tesco,"
E-mail: [email protected] said lead organiser Jean Waller,
www.practicalapplications,co.uk from George Tweed Gardens shel-
tered housing. "People who live in
the Gardens rely on Shaw Post
IMPORTANT Office to collect their pensions and
stamps; so do hundreds of fami-
DECISIONS lies living close-by. The alterna-
tive is getting to the West Swindon
C Centre where the post office is al-
Shaw residents, getting their message across at Tesco in Ocotal Way
ready very busy.
SOLICITORS "Many residents are disabled let Tesco deprive us of an essential Shaw residents and calling on
and just could not do it. We cannot service just because they need more Tesco to reconsider its decision to
D selling space." close the Shaw post office.
Carter Read & Dove She said the petition with over • Campaigners at Longlevens,
2,000 names would be delivered to Gloucester have given heart to the
Contact: Commerce House 'lesco in June, after other unspeci- Shaw residents by successfully
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Swindon SN 15NS fied protest events take place. forcing Tesco into a u-turn on the
• On 15 April Swindon Council closure of the post office in their
* Property Matters There are some passed a resolution supporting local convenience store.
Commercial & Residential great resources
Conveyancing Shaw mobile mast fight still on
* Employment on the Internet. People living off Cartwright Drive in Shaw are continuing to argue
For both the Employer against the erecting of mobile phone masts on the Hillmead Employ-
and Employee But do you know ment Area, close to their homes and also Brook Field School.
* Wills & Probate The April Link pictured angry residents protesting in Marshall Road
Efficient administration of where they are? at Hillmead. Later in the month Swindon Council's planning commit-
a loved one's estate tee turned down an application for a 12 metre mast from Vodaphone.
We do! However the battle continues. Campaigner Sarah Jordan said, "by
Tel: (01793) 617617 objecting to the Vodaphone mast, we discovered that BT was given
E-mail: [email protected] permission two years ago for a 15 metre mast even closer to our houses
Website: www.crd.org.uk www.uklinks4.com and Brook Field School.
"It has not been put up yet and we are demanding that the decision
is reversed. We have written to Julia Drown MP asking for her support
for our campaign against a mast so close to houses and the school."

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