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38 swindonlink.com • November 2008
Guides get busy with needles
MOBILE Peatmoor Guides discovered
CAR REPAIRS new skills in October to help Age
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• Servicing 100 mini-bobble hats to decorate
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easy GARY VARDY Following their modern take on Cinderella, a North Swindon youth drama

group is seeking stars and back stage crew for its next pantomime.
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