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MOBILE Soul music to light up education for children in Africa
®
CAR Inspirational singer-songwriter include Rodo’s latest which people can be-
VALETING Rodo from London is appearing single Light our World, come better educated.
SERVICE in a special fundraising concert which she wrote in “People should lis-
BROUGHT TO YOUR HOME OR WORKPLACE in aid of Cricklade-based charity, support of the charity. ten to the heart behind
• Interior/Exterior Valet • Cars, Caravans Lights for Learning, at Holy Trinity It’s available to buy on the music and do ev-
and Motorhomes • Hot wash system Church in Shaw Village Centre on iTunes for 79p, with erything they can to
• Odour removal • Paint protection/ Saturday 19 November, 7.30pm. all proceeds going to support this charity.”
Rectification • Diamondbrite/ The charity has installed solar- Lights for Learning. Tickets are £10. For
Caravanbrite application • Steam cleaning powered electric light to schools Rodo grew up in details mail: peter@
• Fully insured and highly trained in Kenya, Zambia, Gambia and Nigeria, so she has the lightsforlearning.org
For quotation call Freephone Zimbabwe where the government special vantage point of • In 2004 The Link or-
0800 0834 683 has asked Lights for Learning to knowing the problems ganised the first public
work with them to install lighting that exist for schools
Quote ADV.1 for 10% discount in 6,000 rural schools across the in Africa. She said, presentation of the
light system invented
www.autovaletdirectswindon.co.uk country where it is too expensive to “it’s one thing helping by Roger Mugridge,
[email protected] link them to the mains grid. people, and another appropriately at Holy
The West Swindon concert will thing helping people to Trinity, Shaw.
help themselves. Lights for Learn- See a picture and more details
ing certainly provides sustainable at www.swindonlink.com
help by improving the conditions in

‘E’ should be put into erroneous signs

Adrian Balch of Rushey Platt says Swindon Council needs to get its
place names right.
He writes: Put ‘Rushy Platt’ into heritage and
your satnav and it will come up affect busi-
with nothing. Why? Because it nesses if not
doesn’t exist. corrected.
The correct spelling is ‘Rushey Twice this
Platt,’ famous for the Swindon year I have
Canal and former railway station on pointed this
the Midland & South West Railway error out to
line. However, not according to S w i n d o n
Swindon Council who have erected Council, but
traffic sign posts on the Wootton have been
Bassett Road pointing to ‘Rushy ignored as
Platt Ind Estate.’ ‘unimport-
To perpetuate the error, at least ant’ and told
one company on the estate has it ‘would cost them money to
adopted the incorrect spelling, change it.’
which will change our history and If there was a signpost pointing
to Swondon, would they ignore that
as well?
Thanks to Adrian for the images here.
Below, a railway ticket from 1899 showing
the correct spelling

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