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SQUARE ONE
A Social Club for the
unattached over 45’s
meets every Wednesday
from 8.30pm
@ The Shield & Dagger
Tweet a poem by 26 September Thames Avenue, Swindon SN25
For details call 01793 765413
Could you write a poem with just 140 characters? www.sq1singlesclubswindon.co.uk
Link magazine is sponsoring the first ever Swindon micro-poetry competition
in association with the Swindon Festival of Poetry - see page 33
On offer is £70 to the winner, £50 for second and £20 for the third place.
The winning entries will be read at
the festival on National Poetry Day,
Thursday 3 October.
There are two ways to enter:
Spectacular launch • Tweet directly to the @SN140 Twitter
promised for stream;
Friday 11 October • if you don’t do Twitter, send your
poem of up to 140 characters to:
The Swindon MONOPOLY Big Reveal is now just a roll of the dice away [email protected] and
when Winning Moves UK releases the eagerly awaited game in time for it will be tweeted for you.
the run up to Christmas.
The first few locations have been cured sites on the board - Swindon The closing date is Thursday 26 Sep-
identified and we can exclusively let Town FC, Swindon Wildcats and Swin- tember.
you know that you could find yourself don Robins speedway team.
cheering or cursing Swindon Link Earlier this year when news of the
magazine every time you play. board was announced, the people of
Winning Moves announced at Swindon were invited to vote which
the end of August that the people town property landmarks should
of Swindon had nominated Arkell’s be selected to swap places with the
Brewery to claim Old Kent Road, the famous London sites and sights.
very first location on the Monopoly Dan Taylor, head of custom games
board. It costs just 60 monopoly notes at Winning Moves UK - who are
and in contrast to expensive Mayfair, producing the board under official
the modest purchase price provides license from Monopoly brand owners
reasonable returns. Hasbro - said the Swindon game is
You’ll be able to buy into the town’s themed around heritage, arts, sport,
big three sports clubs who have se- commerce, public parks, transport,
entertainment and other catego-
ries. “Over 2,000 landmarks, streets
or roads could have appeared on
the board. Realistically around
220 were in the running so many
congratulations to the 22 who
made the final cut.”
The brand new MONOPOLY:
Swindon Edition will be avail-
able online as well as via Toys
R Us, WH Smith, The Works and
Waterstones.
• Winning Moves UK already re-
port enquiries to buy the board
have come from as far away as
Australia, the US and China.
• Swindon Link in November
will be running a competition
to win a copy of MONOPOLY:
Swindon Edition.
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