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Dial up a mobility solution Cycle safety care with committed trainer

Dial-a-Ride provides transport solutions to people who are disabled Volunteer cycling profi ciency teacher Paul Matthews has won a grant
as well as hiring mini buses to community groups. for Catherine Wayte Primary School.
Their services are available to Dial a Ride helps people who are
anybody unable to use public temporarily disabled, including
transport because of impaired mo- those recovering from major illness
bility. As well as wheelchair users, or injury.
A fl eet of minibuses operates
At your service from Monday to Saturday with
routes tailored to meet the demand
Despite disruption from major
roadworks on Station Road, in each day. Passengers need to call
Wootton Bassett, two Link ad- by 10am the day before they would
vertisers welcome your New Year like to travel. A shopper bus to
business. West Swindon Centre operates
See the Basset Signs adver- on Tuesdays and other buses run
tisement on page 7 and Optima across Swindon from 7.45am to
Motors below. 6pm weekdays, and 9am to 5.30pm
on Saturdays.
Other travel options are available,
MOBILE including an accessible car which two years. He works for BT and applied for one of their Community
Mr Matthews has taught cycling skills at the school for the past
can be booked up to one month in
CAR REPAIRS advance. For people wanting to Champions awards on behalf of Catherine Wayte. He said, “there are
good cycle routes across North Swindon so it is important for children
travel further afi eld, a wheelchair
• Servicing access car can be hired for travel to have good road awareness, especially if they’re going to be riding to
secondary school when they leave Catherine Wayte.”
• Repairs anywhere in the British Isles. Headteacher Laura Brierley was pleased to receive the award of
Local community or voluntary
• Brakes groups, such as scouts, sports clubs £100 for additional resources for cycling training. “We are delighted
• Exhausts or senior citizen groups, can also that all of our Year 6 pupils are given the chance to complete a Cycling
• M.O.T. hire a wheelchair accessible mini- Profi ciency course. Every child entered for the test has passed thanks
• Free call out bus. Volunteer drivers aged 21 to 69 to Paul’s support.”
• No VAT are provided with full training.
• Engine Before using Dial a Ride, it is Motorbike skills tested at Hillmead
diagnostics necessary to register. For further The Driving Standards Agency has started conducting practical motor-
SLATER’S MOBILE SERVICES details or a free registration pack cycle tests at its brand new centre at Hillmead, West Swindon.
call 616050 after 12 noon.
A new motorcycle
Tel: 079999 44262 www.dialarideswindon.org.uk test will come into ef-
fect in March to meet
European standards.
It has been expand-
ed to include more
demanding special
manoeuvres includ-
ing a slow slalom,
avoiding an obstacle
while travelling at
www.chipsaway-sven.co.uk 30mph and braking
exercises. Entrance to the new West Swindon site
“Swindon MPTC opened on 29
To ensure that all tests are carried
MOBILE CAR SERVICING & REPAIRS out in uniform conditions, sixty six September for motorcycle testing,”
★ Engine diagnostics ★ Welding ★ Electrical work multi purpose test centres with a test said Michael Watkinson of the DSA.
area roughly the size of a football “The centre will eventually conduct
★ MoTs arranged (no re-test fee) pitch are being built across the UK. both car and motorcycle tests.”
For a reliable local service with over 30 years experience The DSA has had diffi culties fi nding No date has been set for the clo-
(No VAT to pay) suitable sites and the introduction sure of the old car test location near
of the new test has been postponed Marlborough Road in Old Town.
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