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Do you or your staff have Police focus on anti-social people
insufﬁ cient time to juggle
all your work load? attracted by bright lights in the West
Twilight offer a ﬂ exible, reliable, conﬁ dential and
tailor-made service to suit your business needs, The Neighbourhood Police Teams in West Swindon are turning their attention more speciﬁ cally to young
providing an extensive range of services, on an people intent on anti-social behaviour around West Swindon Centre, Link Centre and Shaw Ridge Leisure
ad-hoc basis or as a retained service
- designed to make your life easier. Park over the winter months.
• Book-keeping • Data cleansing • Designing and Beat manager PC Tom Turner rested and were on police curfew
maintaining websites • Independent audit and told the West Swindon Forum on and more were being investigated.
investigation • Ofﬁ ce administration • Project
management • Writing/reviewing policies and 8 November that problems of poor Anti-social behaviour contracts
procedures • NVQ e-portfolios behaviour at Shaw Village Centre were being discussed with partner
Do not delay, contact us today. We welcome had reduced after patrols by ofﬁ cers agencies and some offenders may
enquiries from any organisation. Twilight is always
ready to sit down and discuss your requirements ﬁ tted with helmet cameras. He go to court. He reported that an
and how we can support you. said young people were gravitat- individual had been arrested for
Tel: 0700 345 0082 ing towards the centres of activity ten bike thefts at Link Centre and
(calls charged at local rate) during the cold weather. 18 drugs and theft warrants had
Twilight He added that after the fair next been successfully carried out since
to the Link Centre in September, the last forum meeting.
[email protected] www.twilightuk.com
fourteen under 18s had been ar- The police continue to patrol New beat managers in the West, Tom
Westlea and businesses at West- Turner, left, and Stephen Yates
mead Industrial Estate after ten banks, offer life insurance on loans
arrests for break-ins had been made and are ﬂ exible in repayment terms
over the last few months. if a borrower gets into problems.
The police were thanked for Dorothy added that the credit
reducing the dangerous parking union does not run checks on people
by parents outside Greendown joining because credit unions are
School and improving safety for built on relationships between
children walking or cycling to and members who have to save for a
from school. length of time before they can bor-
They were also asked to investi- row money.
gate speeding drivers on Beaumaris www.swindoncreditunions.co.uk
Road, Toothill. West Swindon to be split up?
Whitehill Way safety The Boundary Commission is
The forum heard that Swindon reviewing Swindon Council ward
Council is drawing up plans to areas so that each councillor is re-
improve the Whitehill Way cross- sponsible for about 2,000 voters in
ing between Link Centre and Shaw standard three seat wards.
Ridge after four accidents in ﬁ ve West Swindon’s future voting
years. These include cutting back population is predicted to be less
vegetation, reducing the speed limit than 18,000 which means that parts
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Dorothy Brown of the Clivey Credit for example, Sparcells with Moredon.
Union which covers West Swindon Coun Nick Martin said local
spoke about the beneﬁ ts of joining a councillors were arguing the case
community bank which pays 4 per for West Swindon to retain its dis-
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