CASE ONE: A YOUTH centre that looked set to fall foul of Swindon Council's cash crisis is now facing a brighter future .

The centre is being built by Asda Wal-Mart next to its giant new store in Haydon Wick as a gift to the people of North Swindon. It is included inside a new district centre next to a health centre and library.

The Advertiser revealed last Tuesday that, due to cash constraints, the council might not be able to afford to staff and equip the centre when work finishes in January.

Councillor Garry Perkins (Con, Dorcan), the council's lead member for education and community, expressed fears that it might have to be mothballed before opening.

But our front page article has prompted a surge of goodwill in the community that could prove to be the centre's saviour.

Two youth organisations that have access to Lottery and Government funding have approached the council with offers to move to the centre and possibly kit it out with computers and other equipment.

And the Swindon Youth Partnership has put the matter on the agenda for its next meeting to see how it can help.

Co-ordinator Nigel Sharp said there is a strong chance it can provide highly trained volunteers to staff the centre.

He said: "When I read the story I was going to write in, but I decided instead to contact Coun Perkins to see how we could help.

"If the council can't afford to run it, there may be a way we can use the centre and provide volunteers to staff it, because it would be terrible for it to go to waste."

Coun Perkins said: "We've had contact from two organisations who are keen to use the centre as a base and we are still in discussions with them.

"The response has been fantastic and it is thanks to the Adver there is little doubt now that we will get this place up and running one way or another."

CASE TWO: A CRACK SAS squad could be brought in to make the lives of residents in the David Murray John Tower a little brighter.

Window cleaning firm, Superior Access Solutions, felt sorry for those living in the town centre skyscraper after reading in Friday's Adver that the windows have not been cleaned for three years.

It is one of many problems at the tower that have developed since the Brunel Centre below it was sold by the council for £93 million in 1999.

So SAS managing director, John White, has offered Swindon Council a cut-price charge to give the building's exterior a spring clean by abseiling the sides.

The company cleans the windows of some of Swindon's biggest firms, including Nationwide, Honda, BMW, Cellular Operations and Allied Dunbar. Swindon's Designer Outlet Village, the Center Parcs leisure centres and London's 650ft tall City Point building. Some of Cardiff's tallest towers are also among its customers.

But to date, the SAS staff have never scaled the sides of what is the tallest residential building in Wiltshire.

Mr White said: "We did feel sorry for those people, because it's not cheap living there and after all, what's the point in having amazing views when you can't see out of the windows?"

Mr White said his firm would normally charge about £7,000 to clean such a building but he was prepared to negotiate a cheaper charge.