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                            MOBILE          Cabinet councillor gets stuck into the outdoors
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                            CAR         Shaw and Nine Elms councillor Nick Martin is possibly the only
                            VALETING    member of Swindon Council’s cabinet who gets his hands dirty
                            SERVICE     doing practical things in the community.
             BROUGHT TO YOUR HOME OR WORKPLACE  With responsibility for parks and  been single handedly remov-
              • Interior/Exterior Valet  • Cars, Caravans   open spaces, including Lydiard and  ing  overgrown  hedges  and
               and Motorhomes • Hot wash system   Stanton parks, Shaw Forest, various  scrub  to  improve  sight  lines
               • Odour removal • Paint protection/  cemeteries and bowling greens, plus  and  increase  the  amount  of
                 Rectifi cation • Diamondbrite/  Street Smart provision like tree cut-  usable space.
             Caravanbrite application • Steam cleaning  ting and footpath maintenance, Nick   He’s  looking  for  help  in
                • Fully insured and highly trained  keeps  busy  overseeing  delivery  of  this  endeavour  and  would
               For quotation call Freephone   services in diffi cult economic times.  welcome calls from anybody
                   0800 0834 683          Having  been  a  moving  force  who can offer some time to get
                                        behind  the  combining  of  the  involved in cutting back trees
              Quote ADV.1 for 10% discount  former  Salt  Way  Primary  School  and  improving  the  environ-
              www.autovaletdirectswindon.co.uk  playing fi eld in Middleleaze with  ment in Middleleaze.
                 [email protected]  the adjacent public open space, in   Give  him  a  call  on  07930
                                        modern big society fashion, he has  442223  or  mail:  nmartin@
                                                                   swindon.gov.uk
                                                                               Better to view birds by

                                                                   Thanks to a Swindon Council community grant, volunteers from Peatmoor
                                                                   Community Woodland Group have built a platform on the east side of
                                                                   Shaw Community Forest park, overlooking the bird sanctuary at Swindon
                                                                   Lagoons where access is restricted to supervised open days.





















                                                                   Some of the helpers who built the platform, from left, Chris Shepherd, Nick Mar-
                                                                   tin, Swindon Council park ranger Stuart Searle, Edward Glennie, Gina Adams

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