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42 The Link Magazine • September 2006 °tr f cF fieds
Adventure space opens at Lydiard Park
D & L Blinds 1;1 Fantastic new play facilities were launched at Lydiard Park on 19
August, providing great fun for children of all ages.
Rollers • Verticals • Venetians
Located next to the visitor cen- toddlers where parents can both
Pleated Blinds • VELUX®
tre, the area is packed with colour- provide supervision and keep an
Conservatory Blinds ful, state-of-the-art play and climb- eye on older children discovering
QUALITY BLINDS AT ing equipment. New features in- the exciting equipment closeby.
AFFORDABLE PRICES elude the Triaction Special - a huge The playground comes with the
climbing frame with masses of backing of the children who use
Fast and reliable service
slides and poles to go down and a Lydiard Park. During the summer
Evenings & weekends no problem
]Loa amity, Business variety of equipment to climb and of 2005 over two hundred of all
All blinds fitted free f
• All types of fencing installed !!► — . swing from, and the Giant Octonet ages stated their preference for the
Choose front a wide range
• Full patioldecking service with its intricate maze of rope lad- type of equipment they wanted to
of fabrics from the coin fort • Made to measure gates ders to climb up and a variety of see provided as part of the £5
of your own home • All pressure treated timbers traditional and new swings. million Lydiard Park Project,
• Help advice on all fencing & landscape matters
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Hitting the litter and tidying up Toothill
There was an impressive turn-out of sixty Swindon Council staff,
police and fire fighters at a community clean-up day on 27 July.
During a morn-
ing of intensive ti-
dying up across
Toothill, the graf-
fiti squad cleaned
off over 100 tags
and casual scrib-
bles and litter pick-
ing teams col-
lected over 60 sixty
black bags of rub-
bish. Three stray
dogs were
rounded up and
seven abandoned
vehicles were
identified for re-
moval later.
Cheri Wright,
Swindon's Crime Council Workers and residents, ready to zap the crap
and Disorder coor-
dinator, said the aim of tackling together and look after your own
enviro-crime was to show that area."
agencies care about communi- Ruth and Norris Kiddle were
ties but at the same time resi- the only residents to take part. "We
dents need to take responsibil- put leaflets through doors asking
ity for their neighbourhoods. people to join us; the poor response
"After we've gone it would be was disappointing. We just hope
good to think people will look residents will notice a difference
at their streets and cul-de-sacs the day made."
and take action themselves to To report graffiti or litter ring
remove litter and graffiti. It the'It's Your Call' hotline on 0845
doesn't take much effort to band 6052222.