[Why did you take the step of occupying…]
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Why did you take the step of occupying the Play Pauline: Because the social surices were closing Beal St. down, We felt there was a need for it to stay open. Jill: Well, in an area like Highfields you need somewhere like this because parents just don't have anywhere else to take children to and there is a social need Nursery Campaig Jill and Pauline, fighting to keep Play Centre open. • interviews two parents, Beal Street future.
Do you think there is a chance of the County Council ottering any more?
Jill: Well we're hoping they're going to see sense and give us what we want.
The honest answer is I think they're going to pass the buck.
What would you say to other parents whose nursery is threatened with closure?
Jill: In a word, occupy. I think also parents should send their kids to nurseries and put their names on the waiting lists so that we make sure the Social Services have no excuse to close them down like Beal Street. in the middle of the night.
Anyway, suddenly old Trev's not there any more. Pushed off to some unknown location and transterrea to the trattie police, hoping that nobody will start a siege at his set of traffic lights.
A neighbour interviewed on radio said that the Locks had complained about harassment by the press and said that their lives had been ruined since the siege. He also muttered something about the Lock children having come under pressure at school.
Boldly and fearlessly the campaigning newspapers spoke out. Hero Trev had quit and to blame was ... society as we know it today. Brixton, Derry, all the extremists who have sapped our confidence in law and order.
His children had been beaten up. His car had been scratched with the word PIG. His life had been made a misery by anti-police extremists who have (apparently) taken over every corner of our lives.
There was not too much space given to the complaints about the press. But then that is just another example of the slight suspicion about Trev. Never did quite know which side his bread had been greased.