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Isambard pupil helps Swindon company Easter cafe to welcome Spring
become greener with an orange hue Lower Shaw Farm in Old Shaw Lane is holding a special Easter themed
community cafe on Wednesday 4 April, 10am to 2pm.
Watch out for a bright orange Mitsubishi iMiEV on the streets of the Enjoy tea, coffee and cakes, or a light lunch. Tour the farm’s organic
town. You can’t miss the electric vehicle because it has been strikingly vegetable garden where children can feed the chickens, ducks and pigs,
decorated with a design submitted by Sean Elliott, the winner from or play on the swing and in the helicopter net in the Dutch barn. Easter
500 entries to a competition open to schools across the town.
crafts and a treasure hunt are planned.
The popular community cafe resumes regular opening on 18 April.
Swindon Festival of Literature & Paraguay’s Sonidos de la Tierra present
PARAGUAY at The PLATFORM
on Sunday 1 April, 7.30pm, Faringdon Road. Tickets: £5
An open mic. event for guitarists, violinists, singers, poets, and storytellers from
Swindon to meet harpists, musicians, and friends from Paraguay
Performers include international music maestro Luis Szarán, guitar whisperer
Richard Durrant, Swindon’s newest band Jamocracy, cool poets, and hot storytellers.
Bring along your instrument, your ideas, poem, or a song, or just yourself

SCS managing director Bill Fisher with Sean Elliott and the electric car
Swindon Commercial Services from the plug-in point at the SCS
Ltd. (SCS) has purchased the headquarters in Waterside Park.
completely silent car to reduce its Charging facilities around the town
environmental impact by cutting are being discussed. Brighten up your home for Spring
CO2 emissions to zero. Sean Elliott said: “I wanted to get
SCS managing director Bill Fisher the idea of the sun powering the car. with a rainbow of colours!
said: “The financial analysis carried The design looks really good, dif-
out as part of the business case to ferent from when I was doing it on Charisma Blinds - the place for quality and value
buy the vehicle showed that it will the computer. It’s great to know that Suppliers of all types of blinds, awnings and shutters
pay for itself after 8,000 miles. There people around the town will see it.” Full fitting service or cash and carry
is no road tax to pay and the cost of Sean won himself a £50 technol- Factory showroom open Monday to Thursday 9.30am - 5.30pm
charging the batteries is very low.” ogy voucher and Isambard £400 Friday 9.30am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 4pm
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