Playtime that's lasted 48 years! CHILDCARE: Mums tell of their sadness as popular community playgroup prepares to close.(Features)

From: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) | Date: June 13, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: By Dean Valler

PARENTS and children are saying an affectionate goodbye to a playgroup owner who has seen scores of youngsters pass through her care.

Diane Bringloe is closing Lammas Road playgroup, which meets at Holyhead Road United Reformed Church in Coventry, on Wednesday, July 12.

The 47-year-old mum-of-two has run the playgroup, which was set up 48 years ago, since 1990 and cares for 29 pre-school children four times a week.

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