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Joking aside

16/10/2014

Councillor Wayne Smith is a joker, he is always first in the line to help new residents, (Wayne’s Bid To Keep Road, News, 9 October).
How about helping the Hampton Park Seniors Club to get a push button pedestrian crossing across the very busy Pound Road?
The seniors’ club was here before some of those roads in Lynbrook.
D Gardner,
Hampton Park.

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