LOCAL ELECTIONS
Clockwise from top left: Bhawna Goyal (Conservatives), Marina Strinkovsky (Labour), Leslie Valatdesgranges (Independent) and Stan Pajak (Liberal Democrats). Middle: Regent Circus Eastcott is the most densely populated of Swindon Borough Council’s 20 wards. It is bounded to the north by Central ward and to the south by Old Town, with Walcot and Park North to the east. More than 12,000 people cram into its 1.6 sq km area and some of its issues are some of the most pressing facing the council today. The ward encompasses Kingshill. The main road there is the area of the worst air pollution in Swindon. It is the only area where the council has been obliged by law to declare an air quality management area.