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Welsh Newton and Llanrothal Community Access Point

Calling all budding cyber surfers.... Welsh Newton village hall is ready to become your gateway to the internet.

As part of Herefordshire In Touch (HIT) funded by Advantage West Midlands (through the single regeneration budget), the European Regional Development Fund, HASP (the Herefordshire Access to Services Partnership) and GOWM Welsh Newton Village Hall has now been confirmed as one of a growing number of Community Access Points. This means that it has been equipped with computers, laptops, a broadband router and variety of PC programmes - everything needed to turn it into a virtual internet cafe, available to anyone in the Welsh Newton and Llanrothal area who doesn't have their own equipment, or broadband access, but wants to join the digital age.

The 'Point' will be available to all, with the support of a team happy and willing to show those who've never had access to a computer before how to become a skilled surfer. In the near future there will be courses on offer, computer game evenings, film nights and a film making club.

"Though personal computers only became a reality around 20 years ago, they have had as great an effect on the way people work and communicate as the industrial revolution and the telephone," explained Elissa Swinglehurt, secretary of the CAP steering commitee. "Not everyone has been able to take advantage of their benefits though. Some people have never had a chance to learn how to use them. Others are too far from a telephone exchange to be able to access broadband.

The Community Access Point is set up to rectify this and it is going to be available for anyone in the area to do whatever they want. They'll be able to use email, try all sorts of software, even sample internet telephony or see satellite images of their homes using the Google Earth service. What's more, use of the facility is free. There can't be many facilities this good for this little!"

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