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<a href="https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31083" eudora="autourl">
https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31083</a>
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</font><font size=4 color="#FF00FF">To petition against the sale of
Urchfont Manor, Urchfont, Wiltshire, the quality, lifelong learning
establishment for adult education please sign this <b><u>new
</u></b>petition above, now on the No 10 Downing St website, <b><u>as
well as</u></b> the one below, as shown on the Wiltshire district council
website, if you would<br><br>
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<a href="https://cms.wiltshire.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?id=34&TPID=4946222&$LO$=1">
https://cms.wiltshire.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?id=34&TPID=4946222&$LO$=1</a>
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</font><font size=4 color="#FF00FF">Please help by signing these
petitions at the above two links to try to stop the wonderful adult
education venue of Urchfont Manor being sold by Wiltshire Council.
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It has been used by the OU in the SW as a residential study base for
their revision schools, with very high standards of teaching and training
for many years. Many craft and art tutors and students also use it
as a venue, too, for lace making, patchwork, quilting, woodwork,
beekeeping, plus many many other subjects of historical and cultural
interests. People from all over the UK, and sometimes from abroad
attend these courses, so the shock waves of its closing will not just be
local to Wiltshire. <br><br>
To view more details about the manor and its history as it stands now,
and the courses being offered, please see
<a href="http://www.urchfontmanor.co.uk/">
http://www.urchfontmanor.co.uk/</a> <br><br>
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There has been very little public consultation on the proposal to sell
Urchfont Manor, please lend your support.<br><br>
to see what the <expletives deleted> council are proposing to do
see <br>
<a href="http://www.urchfont-pc.gov.uk/News_and_Events/Sale_of_Urchfont_Manor.aspx" eudora="autourl">
http://www.urchfont-pc.gov.uk/News_and_Events/Sale_of_Urchfont_Manor.aspx</a>
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PS - whilst you are in a petition-signing mood - and to help the OU's
e-petition for funding, and to help to save quality adult part time
education at Sussex University, please also see links to sign these
two. <br><br>
Sussex univ =<br>
<a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/community-engagement-at-sussex/">
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/community-engagement-at-sussex/</a>
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(just escape from the 'please donate' box that will pop up after you've
signed the petition, purely by pressing the x at top right hand side of
the page. <br><br>
And for the OU petition link - please see<br>
<a href="http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/22316">
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/22316</a> -
and pass on as wide and far as you can please – thank you. If we can get
over 100,000 signatures it can be properly discussed in parliament.
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Your help is very much appreciated, please pass on as far and wide as you
can<br>
take care<br>
thank you.<br>
:) <br>
Chris<br>
<no need to reply><br><br>
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