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2 swindonlink.com • July 2010
Swindon based campaigner gets
OBE for services to health
Brian Toft, a professor at Coventry University, was named to receive
the OBE in the Queen's birthday honours list.
The award is in recognition of his work to raise the profile of patient
safety in healthcare, but people in West Swindon will know him as the
intellectual driving force behind the campaign to save Shaw Forest
Park in 2004 when it was threatened with commercial development as
a football stadium.
Celebrating all thin His examination of the risk of disturbing the former landfill site and
the outline legal case that might arise underpinned a rapid and successful
artistic and cultura campaign to kick the stadium idea into touch.
Saturday 10 July, Brian, who lives in Middleleaze, said he was 'surprised and completely
delighted' to be made an OBE. "To have received such an accolade is a
12noon - 10.30pm real honour and I will accept it to emphasise the importance of patient
Lydiard Park safety in our society."

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Shakespeare's Globe On Tour pres
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Two couples, an amateur troupe of actors and
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