A council has apologised for the lack of notice after village tenants had their TV cut off. The television services paid for through their rent by tenants in the Swindon's Railway Village were turned off - severing an important source of entertainment and information for 200 people.
The Victorian railway worker’s cottages are listed and the whole area is a Conservation area. It means residents - many of them elderly - are not allowed external aerials or satellite dishes on the outside of their homes.
For more than a decade Swindon Borough Council has had a deal with Virgin Media for its Railway Village tenants who pay an extra £2 per week in rent to receive a basic cable television package - until last week. Kenneth Butler, 90, who lives there, told Wiltshire Live: “I turned it on in the morning and there was nothing and it told me I had to subscribe.
