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Keeping hearing aid
wearers in the loop Former Greendown
JUST over a third of chemists in Swindon pupil targets UK
have a working hearing loop – that’s the
findings of an audit conducted in the town chart stardom
by hearing aid wearers.
Let’s Loop Swindon, a partnership between
Rotary and the hearing loss charity Hearing
Link, successfully completed an audit of POP star Taylor Jones has set
hearing loop provision at 29 pharmacies in his sights on breaking the UK
after finding chart stardom
the town when pairs of volunteers visited across continental Europe.
premises to check the availability and The former Lydiard Tregoze
quality of loop provision.
Hearing loops provide a magnetic, wireless Primary and Greendown
signal which can be picked up by a hearing School pupil has released his
new single Emergency, buoyed
aid. They cut out exterior noise and in a by success in Belgium, Poland,
chemist, where vital medical information is Spain and Germany.
given, ensure that a hearing aid wearer can
hear the pharmacist without any confusion. The 20-year-old upped sticks
The month-long audit concluded that 10 from Redhouse two weeks into
his studies at New College to
of the 29 chemists had effective loops. chase his dream of stardom in
Let’s Loop Swindon’s chair, Tim Mason,
said that the group would be following up London. Two years on he now
the audit by contacting the chemists and lives in Hamont, Belgium.
Taylor said: “I lived at my
offering help to ensure that there was better parents house in Redhouse
provision. Read Taylor’s until I was 18 and decided
Let’s Loop Swindon has organised a exclusive DIARY OF A
launch training event which will take POP STAR at to move to London alone to
place on Wednesday 25 February at swindonlink.com for pursue music. I quit college
the National Trust’s Heelis building. For regular updates on after just two weeks and
decided I wanted to be in the
more information call 01793 536815 or his progress. studio making music - though
email [email protected] or Search: Taylor Jones I never took music at school.
[email protected].
“So I moved to London and
Council’s gallery and stayed with friends and family
for as long as I could, staying
1 Groundwell Road, museum bid goes in on sofas, sleeping on the
Swindon SN1 2LT floor at recording studios and
Closest Funeral Director to the SWINDON Council has submitted its spamming anybody I could
registrar, less than 2 minutes walk. bid to the Heritage Lottery Grant for to persuade them I was good
Tel: 01793 422422 aid to build a new museum and art enough.
gallery in the town centre. “I made songs on my own
Our family service caring for you made up of a request of £12.5million from a homemade microphone
The projected £20million cost is
as I had no funding behind me,
A truly personal and compassionate service from the HLF, £5million set aside and posted these creations to
by the council, and the balance of
available 24 hours a day, every day of the year £5million from corporate and private YouTube until I grew enough
followers online to do small
benefactors.
Included in The Good Funeral Guide shows.
in recognition of our quality of service The museum and gallery would “After saving up from
become the centre piece of the town hosting club nights I was able
centre’s regenerated cultural quarter, to fund my first music video,
• Professionally opposite the Wyvern Theatre and which ended up charting at
qualified close to Central Library. It would number two in the UK Urban
provide a great deal more space to Charts and remained top five
• Pre-paid funeral exhibit artefacts and paintings in the for eight weeks.
plans available Swindon collection of 20th Century “Since then, I formed
modern art. my own record label Taylor
• Home visits Currently Apsley House on Bath Made and was signed by an
available John Pearce, centre, Tracy & David Road, has limited display space international management
‘Here for you when needed most’ and the attached art gallery which team based in Belgium. They
marked its 50th anniversary last flew me over to Belgium to
September can only show limited
Also, Chapel Of Rest located at numbers of the paintings in the release my first solo track Rock
92 Ermin Street, Stratton St Margaret SN3 4NN collection and small touring This Party and I performed to
Tel: 01793 832072 exhibitions. 42,000 people in the biggest
The council will hear in April if the arena in Belgium - my second
show there.
application is to be supported. “One year later I am
HLF is also considering a
reapplication for support by St Mary’s releasing Emergency and
Church, Lydiard Park. trying to break the UK.”
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