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This issue: Friday, March 16 to 23 2012 VOL 19: 941 UK NO.1 Advertising closes for next issue on Friday, March 16 at 5pm.

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Hungerford Town Council’s Environment and Planning Committee will seek the full council’s backing on a move to present an acceptable concept for the Hungerford

Railway Station area.Meeting on Monday night, the committee was addressed on

its station brief and neighbourhood planning by West Berkshire Council’s Liz. Alexander.

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Hungerford’s Bridge and High Streets re-surfacing programme has been approved and work is expected to go ahead in the summer.

Projects manager John Winstanley told The Adviser yesterday that the project, budgeted at just under £200,000, would take two to three weeks between the A4 Charnham Street and Church Way.

Tenders for construction would be called soon.Hungerford Town Council would be consulted when further details

were known.Mr Winstanley said the work would be carried out with the aim of

minimal disruption to transport and trade.The ideal time for the work would be in the summer during the school

holidays, he said.KINTBURY CROSSINGMeanwhile, work on Kintbury Railway Crossing rebuild was scheduled

to start on March 25 at 11pm and run until 11pm on April 15 or sooner. Network Rail will be asked to place signs to inform people of the impending work.

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Continued from page 1She told the meeting the station environs were a Protected Employment

Area, the structure of which would be reviewed after the core strategy was determined.

Cr Roger Thompson said the Hungerford council committee favoured housing with shopping precincts for the area. He said Hungerford would have to take further housing in the future and it was desirable that brownfi eld sites be used and that industry be placed elsewhere.

Ms Alexander said Hungerford was likely to have additional housing. “We don’t know the numbers. We are looking at areas across the district”.

Cr David Liddiard said it would be a mistake to make space for more employment in the station area. Housing was better related to the railway.

Cr Jean Hutchings said the Hungerford council could develop its own desired policy to put to West Berkshire Council

Ms Alexander said the informal development brief would not be strong but would begin to have weight with council backing and could be used in future development policy. It would be positive to see what Hungerford required and for West Berkshire Council to be put in the picture.

She said she would be happy to help and to return to address the committee.

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THE DISTRICT’S MOST UP-TO-DATE WEEKLY DIRECTORY The Adviser, Friday, November 11 to 18, 2011

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VISITING practice Jane Darby WMSCh MPS Pract . Tel. 01672 512211.

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Plans are under way for Hungerford to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Hants and Berks Extension Railway.

The proposal is for the celebrations to be part of Hungerford’s Victorian Extravaganza on Friday, December 14.

An outline of the proposal was put before Hungerford Town council by District Councillor David Holtby who said:

“The Berks and Hants Railway, running the 25.5 miles from Reading to Hungerford, opened on 21 December 1847 and a year later was absorbed into The Great Western Railway.

“Hungerford remained a terminus for 15 years until 11 November 1862 when the Berks and Hants Extension Railway opened a 24.5 miles line to Devizes allowing direct travel from Hungerford via Bristol to the USA and on 1 October 1900 via Weymouth to the Continent.

“The Hungerford section of this route which we now take for granted represented a considerable engineering feat with the Great Western Railway’s longest unsupported bridge span over Hungerford High Street and a permanent way weaving a diffi cult path via Freeman’s Marsh along the Kennet and Avon Navigation. Along with Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics this year, the Extension Railway is worthy of celebration which might appropriately be combined with the Victorian Extravaganza when the town will be “in-character” and primed for such an event”.

HUNGERFORD TO CELEBRATE 150TH RAILWAY ANNIVERSARY

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JUNE 20123: HEAT walk 10am Town Hall steps6: Marlb WI Wesley Hall 7.30pm7: HEAT Green Drinks 8pm The Plume9: Marlb Embroidery Guild11: Marlb. Hung. ladies’ lunch at Bear11: Marlb Embroidery Guild19: Marlb Embroidery Guild19: MU “Elaine & friends”, CHall 143023: Spirals Craft Fair & Refreshments 10-4pm HTH

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JULY 20121: HEAT walk 10am Town Hall steps2: Marlb Embroidery Guild3: Marlb Embroidery Guild4: Marlb WI Wesley Hall 7.30pm5: HEAT Green Drinks 8pm The Plume16: Marlb Embroidery Guild17: Marlb Embroidery Guild22: Hung’d Farmers Mkt24: Marlb Embroidery Guild30: Marlb Embroidery Guild

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OCTOBER 20121: Marlb Embroidery Guild AGM3: Marlb WI Wesley Hall 7.30pm4: HEAT Green Drinks 8pm The Plume7: HEAT walk 10am Town Hall steps15: Marlb Embroidery Guild16: MU Croft Hall23: Marlb Embroidery Guild28: Spirals Craft Fair & Refreshments 10-4pm HTH28: Hung’d Farmers Mkt29: Marlb Embroidery Guild30: Marlb Embroidery Guild

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Dog Grooming

curtain maker

Experienced curtain maker 01672 871496

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Spanish classes. All levels. GCSE support. Experienced teacher. Tel. 01672 871382.

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Gill: 07729 763759 Sarah: 07753 [email protected]

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Ermin Street Lambourn Woodlands Berkshire RG17 7SD. Tel: 01488 71386 www.theharerestaurant.co.ukErmin Street Lambourn Woodlands Berkshire RG17 7SD.

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It’s fun to share your thoughts, share your questions, share our knowledge.

Esther Fairfax of Park Street Hungerford is starting a Chatty Group -not quite a book club, not quite loose women, not even a therapy group.

The Chatty Group would love to hear what’s been on your mind and enjoy an exchange of thoughts and encourage discussion.

Women preferred. Phone Esther if you’re interested and want to know more. Hungerford 01488 683609.

Hungerford’s mayor Cr Martin Crane and councillors welcomed new councillor Terry Harding to the last Hungerford Town Council meeting. He and Cr David

Small were co-opted to council and Cr Small was unable to attend the meeting.

WELCOME TO TOWN COUNCIL

THE CHATTY GROUP

People wishing to close streets for parties to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee would have to apply through West Berks Council Hungerford Town Council highways and transport meeting was told.

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The Adviser, Friday, March 2 to 9, 2012Spring Housespecial Adviser feature

MOLLY MAID is Britain’s largest professional maid service company and one of the world’s largest domestic cleaning maid services.

MOLLY MAID arrived in the UK 28 years ago in 1984 and has 70 franchises across the UK. Tel. 01793 820522.

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Brocksdown: - Brocksdown is a small business established in 2011, specialising in small-scale leaded and stained glass work for Berkshire and the surrounding counties. More information and examples of their workmanship can be seen on the website www.brocksdown.co.uk Tel. 01488 648373.

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At a recent meeting of Marlborough Common Users’ Group several diverse topics were debated, some of which

included; MowingThe mowing of areas on the common is carried out with more

planning and thought than the public may realise. Pathways are realigned slightly to allow grass to recover, margins are left for wild fl owers to fl ourish and wild life is also taken into consideration. When the mowing schedules have to fi t in with available man power, the weather and local events, it is not hard to understand that sometimes the diffi cult becomes almost impossible.

Anti-social behaviour by dog owners and driversA few thoroughly ant- social dog walkers who use the common

continue to allow dogs to foul the rugby pitches and pathways, which have to be cleared. Speeding motorists put children and

MEETING DISCUSSES COMMON ISSUESelderly people in danger on Frees Avenue, the road that divides the common, Wiltshire Council are to be approached yet again with this problem.

New Plantation An event which will take

place this year, much to the delight of everyone concerned, is the innovative Apple Tree Plantation. The trees, all of which are old Wiltshire Varieties, specially grafted, will be planted in a diamond formation to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Underplanting of bulbs and wildfl owers will make a beautiful area on the common and additional fruit trees like jewels around the central diamond will add a fi nishing touch. The project has been organised by the Marlborough Community Orchard group, spearheaded by Philippa Davenport (pictured above).

Proposals to renovate the Old Pavilion in Elcot Lane for use by Marlborough Amateur Boxing Club were welcomed by councillors.

The new petrol station near Tesco will be run by a small independent company that will will provide competitive prices.

Full minutes of all Marlborough Town Council (MTC) meetings are available on their website.

Commemorative TreesSome of the Chestnut trees lining Frees Avenue on

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NEWS SPOTSADD STREET CLOSURES FOR PARTIESPeople wishing to close streets for parties to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee would have to apply through West Berks Council the last Hungerford Town Council highways and transport meeting was told.

DOG WARDEN VISITINGA dog warden is visiting Hungerford for two days a week for six weeks, Hungerford Town Council’s high-ways and transport committee has been told. The coun-cil will consider placement of dog bin signs

ROTARY IN CELEBRATIONSHungerford Rotary Club will join Hungerford town council and other town service clubs in The Queen’s diamond Jubilee celebrations at the Croft on Saturday, June 2.

NOT HIS DAYGoing through some newspaper fi les we felt we should share this with our readers.Appearing in The Wangaratta Chronicle Despatch newspaper in Victoria, Australia many years ago was the following report:“Humphrey Cain, the president of the Folklore Society of Australia, had some problems when he went to the Wangaratta Airport to open a vintage aircraft exhibi-tion. Mr Cain was unable to deliver his opening speech above the noise of a Dragweave triplane whose engine was jammed in the on position. As he moved to a qui-eter corner, a home-made French microlite took off and crashed into the ladder he meant to speak from. And as the frustrated Mr Cain was making his way to the re-freshment tent, Mrs Margaret McCracken, an 83-year-old amateur parachutist landed on his head”.

HOUSE SOUGHT IN COUNTRYThe Adviser has been asked to seek a small house in the Hungerford countryside surrounded by one to three acres of land. Tel. 01488 682328.

Claire Perry MP and Parliamentary Anglers urge swift action to help the struggling River Kennet On 14th January 2012, Claire Perry, MP for the Devizes Constitu-ency, took the current and former Chairmen of the Parliamentary All Party Angling group to see the unprecedentedly low water levels on the River Kennet. The group met representatives from Action for the River Kennet (ARK) and local residents at Manton near Marlbor-ough to inspect the dry river bed and discuss solutions. Commenting, Claire Perry said:“Rainfall has been low for the last 18 months but it is the abstraction of water from the Kennet by Thames(Photograph courtesy of Marlborough News Online) Water that is the real concern. I welcome the Government’s com-mitment to reforming abstraction tariffs in their recent White Paper and we know that Thames Water are working hard to educate people on the need for water conservation with their “Care for the Kennet” campaign. Ultimately, though, we need to get the relief pipeline built for Swindon as this is the only thing that will protect the Kennet long term. By working with my Parliamentary colleagues including those here today we can keep the pressure up on Thames Water, Of-wat and on Ministers to get this urgent project underway”. Charles Walker MP, current chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Angling Group said:“As much as I enjoyed visiting Claire’s constituency, I was horrifi ed at the tragic state of the River Kennet. As a passionate fi sherman and in my capacity as the Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Angling, I will fully support Claire and the ARK’s Campaign to restore fl ows to this beautiful river. The Angling group will be lob-bying the Government.” Claire was joined on her visit by; Charles Walker MP for Brox-bourne, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Angling Group; Martin Salter, formerly MP for Reading, who is now the Campaigns Direc-tor for the Angling Trust; Dr Geoffrey Findlay, Martin Gibson, John Lawson and Charlotte Hitchmough from ARK and local residents.· Figures from Thames Water show that rainfall in the local catchment area (Upper Thames) for 2011 was on average 20.42mm less than the 90 year long term average. Thames Water has said it would need around 80% of its long-term average winter rainfall to rule out the likelihood of drought-related water-use restrictions next year.· The proposed pipeline by Thames Water would link the water supplies for South and North Swindon to enable more water for the town to be taken from the Thames. Discussions between Thames Water and the Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat) are on-going.In December 2011, the Department for Environment and Rural Af-fairs (Defra) published its Water White Paper, Water for Life with the aim to publish a draft Water Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny in early 2012 and subsequently introducing a Water Bill as soon as Parlia-mentary time allows. More information about the White Paper can be found at: www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/water/legisla-tion/whitepaper/.· More information on ARK can be found on their website: http://www.riverkennet.org/.


TOOLS STOLEN FROM VANSWhite vans were being targeted by thieves police told Hungerford Town Councullors before their last meeting. Up to £2500 of tools had been taken from a single van.

SHOP SERVE PROVING SUCCESSFUL Hungerford’s Shop Serve police initiative was proving successful in the fi ght against crime, police told councillors before their last meeting.CCTV APPROVAL SOUGHTPolice will seek Hungerford Town Council approval of changes to the town’s CCTV system.

RIPE FOR DEVELOPMENTExtensive land behind Hungerford’s Co-operative was ripe for development the last Hungerford Town Council meeting was told during discussion on associated buildings.

ONE-WAY CROFT SYSTEM TRIAL?A one-way traffi c system in The Croft area may be tried during railway bridge works, Hungerford Town Council has been told.

DOG FOULING FINESWest Berkshire Council will send dog wardens to Hungerford to impose spot fi nes of £50 for fouling. Warning signs will be placed and repeat offences could bring fi nes of up to £500.

CONCERN AT DEVELOPMENTConcern was expressed before the last Hungerford Town Council meeting that the Cobbs Farm area was becoming a development.YOUTH CENTRE DELAY CONCERNTight fi nances are blamed for delays in positive action for Hungerford Youth Centre. Cr Roger Thompson expressed concern to district councillor David Holtby before the last Hungerford Town Council meeting.

ROTARY TO STAGE ANTIQUE SHOWHungerford Rotary Club’s “Antiques Roadshow” will be held on Saturday March 24 at 7.00pm. It will be an entertaining and instructive evening with a cast of experts including Stewart Hofgartner, George Styles and James Podger, A light supper will be includ-ed. Tickets will cost £15 -Annabel King

OMELETTES & SCRAMBLERSOmelettes and scrambled eggs have been on the menu in many district households with chickens in their back yards. The extreme cold cracked the chickens’ eggs and drinking water had to be thawed.

PARISH BURSARY INITIATIVEChilton Foliat Parish Council has announced a student and apprentice bursary scheme designated to further the good of those living in the village. Information from Graham Francis, email: graham [email protected]

SALT BIN FOR PENNY FARTHING CLOSEHungerford’s Penny Farthing Close will be provided with a salt bin and Hungerford Town Council high-ways and transport committee will review placement of salt bins in the town. Cr Jean Hutching has pointed out that gritting has been stopping at Shalbourne close and should be continued up the hill. Bags of salt are said to be available in the council offi ce.JUBILATION IN THE PARKChilton Foliat will celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Ju-bilee with Jubilation in the Park on Monday, June 4 from 2.30 onwards. An afternoon and evening of fun and enertainment will be held for all.

GOOD NEWS FOR JOGJohn O’Gaunt Community Technology College has had the overall effectiveness of science, quality of teaching in sience, quality of curriculum and effective-ness of leadership and management in science judged as “good” by Ofsted. Well done Pebbles Morley and her team!COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT DELAYEDHungerford’s John O’Gaunt Community Technology College expansion plans have received a set-back through lack of funding and the project is on hold until 2013/14 fi nancial year. The school is planning a music, drama, learning resource centre and sixth form facili-ties.MARSH LANE ALLOTMENTS FULLHungerford Town Council’s recreation, amenities and war memorials committee has ben told there is no lon-ger a waiting list for Marsh Lane allotments. CALL IN THE MOLEMANA moleman is being consulted over mole damage to Hungerford’s recreation grounds with particular con-cern to the cricket ground. THERE’S A RUN AFOOTPlans are under way for a Hungerford run as part of HADCAF. Cr Benneyworth told the Hungerford Town Council’s recreation, amenities and war memorials committee hat the run would receive publicity.


7.3.12St John’s welcomes World Book Day visitorsStudents at St John’s celebrated this year’s World Book Day with visits from two award winning authors. On Thursday award-winning author Sally Nicholls spent the day talking to students and running writing workshops. Sally’s fi rst book, ‘Ways to live forever”, about a boy with leukaemia, won the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize.Year 6 pupils from Ramsbury Primary School and Year 7 pupils from St Francis School were invited along to share with St John’s students in the inspiring talk fea-turing Sally’s new book ‘All Fall Down’ hot off the press, having just been published that day.The Marlborough based White Horse Bookshop came along to sell copies of the new book, which is set in the time of the Black Death and features realistic de-scriptions of what life and death would have been like during this time. On Friday Patrick Ness, also an award-winning author, spoke to a packed St John’s theatre about his life and work. Patrick Ness has written six books and won the Carnegie Prize last year. He is on the longlist this year for his latest amazing book ‘A Monster Calls’. Pewsey Vale reading group were invited to join the St John’s reading group plus the whole of year 7 and the Sixth Form IB students at St John’s, for what was a very en-tertaining talk. Patrick Ness’s “Chaos Walking” trilogy is to be made into a movie and the long queue to get books signed at lunchtime just proved how popular is visit had been.Anne Stokes, St John’s Learning Resources Manager arranged the visits as part of the school’s celebrations of World Book Day. Other events during the week in-cluded quizzes and puzzles in the school library, and a cake sale and raffl e to raise funds for the St John’s Zambia Library project. She said “The students were captivated by the talks and many said they had been inspired to go away and start writing”. In addition students were all asked to bring in one chil-dren’s book to add to the growing collection of books to be shipped to Zambia to set up libraries in primary schools.

LOCAL SCHOOLS LAUNCH NEW PARTNERSHIP

A new Partnership will be launched by six Marlborough area schools (Baydon, Easton Royal, Ogbourne St George, St John’s, St Mary’s and St Peter’s) on March 5 2012. The launch event will take place at St John’s at 6pm where families and guests will be able to view displays and meet children and staff who will highlight some of the work already begun through this collaboration. This exciting and far-reaching initiative comes after many months of discussion between Headteachers, Governors and members of the local community who, led by Pablo Vergara, an international expert in scenario planning, explored the ways in which the Marlborough Area could become ‘a hotbed of learning’ into the 21st Century. The Schools in The Marlborough Area Education Partnership have come together to move forward in a new approach to schooling 4-18 years of age. The vision behind the group is:“The Marlborough Area Education Partnership is a learning community which aims for excellence in all we do.We recognise that individual schools are at the heart of their communities and by working together we are committed to ensuring the highest standards of teaching and learning across the partnership. We provide welcoming, stimulating learning environments in which everyone is valued as individuals and are supported and challenged to develop their full potential.Within the strong family ethos, moral code and Christian values embedded in our schools, children and young people are taught to appreciate the world in which we live and respect others as well as themselves. They are encouraged to take pride in their work and become resilient, responsible and enthusiastic learners who are able to express themselves freely knowing they are a valued part of a wider community.Within the partnership, we are committed to the development of an all-through curriculum that is innovative, creative and rich in culture. Our aim is for children and young people to have opportunities to experience new challenges in academic, extracurricular and social activities so they develop the skills for life, for participation in a global community and a love of learning for its own sake.”Through the development of an all-through curriculum, the schools will be working together to secure clear continuity and progression in learning as our children move from one school to the next. This is an idea that

has been trialled in a few parts of the country with great success. This group of schools is now ready to take up this challenge of leading edge work nationally and invite you to attend the launch to fi nd out more. –K Hunter


Update from Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS)Last year the GWAS Board decided not to continue to become a stand-alone NHS Foundation Trust (FT) but instead to join with another trust who was already an FT or on its way to becoming one. Our neighbour, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT), came forward to express their interest in becoming our partner and in October 2011, we decided to explore the opportunity for GWAS to be acquired by SWASFT.Since then, both ambulance trusts have been exploring the creation of a single ambulance trust for the South West. If it goes ahead, this partnership will be excellent news for our patients and staff and offers the best way of continuing to improve patient care for the future. It will bring the benefi ts of combined resources, skills and expertise and will provide more capacity to improve and innovate.Currently, should the acquisition be successfully con-cluded, the aim is for the larger organisation to be in operation as of October 2012.

MARLBOROUGH LECTURETickets are now on sale for Sir Roy Strong’s lecture “The 20th Century Coronations”.Part of Marlborough’s Diamond Jubilee Celebra-tions, the lecture has been arranged by The Mer-chant’s House in association with the Marlborough History Society, and will take place on Wednesday 23 May at 7.30pm in the Memorial Hall, Marlbor-ough College (by kind permission of The Master).Sir Roy Strong, writer, diarist, and gardener was Di-rector of the National Portrait Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum. He lives in Herefordshire where, with his late wife the designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, he created a major garden. A prolifi c author his last book was Visions of England.Tickets for the lecture are now available from The Merchant’s House Shop, 132 High St. Marlborough, £14 or £12 for Friends of the MH and Marlborough History Society members. The lecture is in aid of The Merchant’s House Appeal and is sponsored by Brewin Dolphin.

Axford situatiuonThames Water continues to work on a long-term solution to reduce the amount we transfer to south Swindon from its bore hole at Axford, Wiltshire.Of the 10 (Mld) million litres a day on average that the company takes from the aquifer under Axford, 6Mld to 7 Mld is piped 15 miles north to Swindon, with the rest supplying customers locally.While the water used locally is returned to the Kennet following treatment at sewage works in the area, the 6-7 Mld of water going to Swindon, once used, is not fed back to the Kennet but rather to the River Ray, a tribu-tary of the Thames.This means every day the Kennet is losing up to sev-en million litres, which has the potential to put a lot of strain on the wildlife habitats that the river supports.In order to protect the chalk stream environment, the Envi-ronment Agency has said previously that it plans to ask Thames Water to reduce the water it sends to Swindon from Axford by 3Mld.The company is working with the EA on a plan for a £10m pipeline to take water from the River Thames at Farmoor Reservoir, halving Swindon’s reliance on the Kennet.

JOG YEAR OF PROGRESSReports from Hungerford’s John O’Gaunt Com-munity Technology College indicate that 2011 was another year of progress under its Headteacher Neil Spurdell.

RESIDENTS WILL BE NOTIFIED OF WORKResidents near Hungerford’s priory will be notifi ed of 18 months of demolition and construction work at the request of Cr Jean HutchingsDistrict councillor Paul Hewer assured Hungerford town councillors before their last meeting that any valuable waste materials from the project would be salvaged.

CRAMP ACT TO SOLVE PARKINGPROBLEMS IN MARLBOROUGHOver 200 households or businesses have received a survey form from CRAMP (Cars, Residents And Marlborough Parking) The pilot survey is the fi rst step in an attempt to sort out the huge problem of parking in Marlborough for residents, shoppers and workers. CRAMP are supported by Wiltshire Coun-cil and Marlborough Town Council. -Val Compton

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