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Trust in people power to save
Anything Stone UK Ltd. the Mechanics’ Institution
Suppliers of finely finished granite, marble, Let’s make Swindon’s heritage a priority
for Prime Minister Gordon Brown!
limestone, slate, sandstone and gypsum
Momentum is gathering behind the petition to save the Mechanics’
Granite Worktops Institution on the Prime Minister’s web site.
Table tops, bar tops, As we went to
shop counters, press, The Link
reception desks. sponsored docu-
Granite worktops ment with 170 sig-
from £137 per metre. natures was ranked
Local supplier, 38th among 320 pe-
stockists & installers titions relating to
life in the commu-
08702 422 998 Unit 41 BSS House, Cheney Manor nity.
www.anythingstone.co.uk Signing the pe-
tition is a chance
to make a real dif-
ference and to
LEE PAINES SPORTS MASSAGE break the deadlock
with the present
If you suffer from or have ever suffered owner, Matthew Protesting for the Mechanics in 2005
from any of the following then Sports & Singh, whose plans to build a glass a compulsory purchase order.
Remedial Massage could be the treatment and brick hotel tower on Swin- Representatives of the Trust met
that works for you: don’s most important, yet shame- North Swindon MP Michael Wills
fully derelict, heritage building at the House of Commons in March
Sports Injuries • Backache • Sciatica • Poor Posture
have so far come to nothing. to present a dossier explaining why
Tendonitis • Poor Flexibility • Stress • Headaches With four new hotels planned commercial development is not vi-
Muscle Fatigue • Muscle Strains • Joint Sprains for the town centre over the next able. It goes on to make the case for
few years, the problems for Mr serious consideration of the Trust’s
Contact Lee Paines MSMA, MISRM
Singh’s scheme are mounting. plans for this important building.
Sports & Remedial Massage Therapist The New Mechanics’ Trust The petition runs until 30 July.
Tel: 07979 904817 or [email protected] wants to reclaim the 150 year old Everyone who signs it will receive
building and return it to its origi- an email from the PMs office de-
Fully licensed & insured • Mobile & practising nal use as a community and cul- tailing the Government’s response.
from the De Vere Hotel Leisure Club tural centre. The Trust has obtained By that time, Gordon Brown may
Listed Building Planning Consent have taken over from Tony Blair.
which Mr Singh has not. Can you help make the Mechan-
They are calling on the Prime ics’ petition the first item in his in-
Minister to help them to restore tray? Add your signature at:
the building to the people by issu- http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/
ing a repairs’ notice and ultimately SwindonMechanics
All for mum
There was a tremendous response
to the Blunsdon House Hotel
mother’s day poem competition
published in the March Link.
Adam Stratford’s thoughtful en-
try was selected to win his mum
Cheryl a £150 voucher for great
day of pampering at the hotel’s
health club.
Adam, 8, from Woodhall Park
said he had spotted the competi-
tion when he was reading The Link
www.kingfisher-conservatories.co.uk with his dad Paul. “I said I wanted
to have a go and worked out some
words that rhymed with my dad. I My Mum by Adam Stratford
did a few practice poems before I I love my mum and she loves me too
wrote it out to send in. She’s always busy with lots to do
“I was really pleased when the She looks after me, my brother and
prize arrived in the post for my dad
mum; she was so surprised. I’m Working and driving
glad she won it because my mum She’s always glad
is the best in the word.” Then her best friend died a few weeks
Cheryl said she was delighted ago
that Adam had thought of her. “I Then mum was sad
was surprised that he had worked And missed her so
out a poem. He’s very logical in Now she’s training for her marathon
approaching a problem; I’ve al- run
ways thought of him as more of a But in wind and rain it’s not much fun
scientist. It was such a sweet I’m proud of my mum, you see
thought.” Everyone loves my mum, not just me

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