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News Bulletin Number: 10		Hello everyone! For all of you out there who do not have Facebook... We made it! and are back in the UK safe and sound! Big thanks to everyone who supported and helped us out! Couldn’t have done it without you guys. We had an adventure of a lifetime, and have many a tale to tell! Soo we have been busy working on our hundreds of photos, many hours of video and our written blog! For now we have just finished putting all 550 photos online. You can find them on the Media page if you fancy a look! Our Video and blog will follow soon'ish! Cheers for now!
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News Bulletin Number: 9		Hello there everybody, We felt that as there is now less than a week till the launch of the Mongol Rally that we would send out a news bulletin. It’s been a long hard Sunday as we have been finishing some jobs on the car and organising all the paperwork aspects of the trip (visa’s etc). While on the rally we will be able to send text updates to the Official Rally Site. We have created a “Live Progress” button for our website so that you can see where we are in the wilderness, and find out how we are getting on. I have to say that time has come round fast and that we are shocked that we will be departing London Hyde Park on this coming Saturday. We will be at the North Carriageway at Hyde Park from around 10am and will be departing at around 12:30pm, so if you’re in London and want to come and see all the cars taking part then please do come along. Please do send us your good luck messages as I’m sure we’ll need them! Thanks, Tom
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News Bulletin Number: 8		Hello everybody, Just a few weeks now until we depart from Hyde Park! So we thought a little update was in order. Firstly we have slapped our main sponsor’s stickers on the car (Car Tribe), as-well as a few others, so we now get even more people pointing at us with funny looks on the road! They can be seen in the new photo album we have put online in “The Car” section, oh and we’ll be throwing a new video in there rather soon! We had a kind of final assessment on the car, and received some...interesting thoughts and advice from a mechanic...we wont go into details! So anyway more importantly we have broken our Ł1000 charity mark, and hit almost Ł1200!! So thanks to all who made that possible. Oh yes, some Photos & a video up soon from our sunny Wales test run. That’s all for now!
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News Bulletin Number: 7		With only 78 days till the rally to go we felt that it was time to update everyone with our progress so far. Fundraising is going well currently and we have raised nearly Ł550, with a car boot planned and with sponsorship coming in we hope we will be able to achieve our Ł1000 goal. If you do want to sponsor us please do hit the DONATE button at the top of the screen. It is a quick and easy way to donate and you can say whether you think we will make it to Mongolia or not. The car is looking good at the moment; Jeff has been working hard on a 240volt plug so that we can charge phones and cameras on the rally. We have more mechanical stuff to take care of now, fitting a fuel tank guard and a sump guard and also changing the break pads and the fuel filter. We also decided it would be a wise idea to change the cam belt, although its going to cost a few pennies we feel that it will be worth it! That’s it for now, if you do have anything that you want to get rid of, we are doing a car boot on the 15th June at Aston Clinton just send us an email and we can come and collect any bits which you may think are sellable. Cheers, Tom
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News Bulletin Number: 6		Quick update, Me and Tom are going to be LIVE on BBC - Three Counties Radio tomorrow at about 1:30pm! So if you have a chance, tune in! Cheers from Team Swifty
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News Bulletin Number: 5		Hey Fans, I Thought it was about time we gave everyone a quick update! So things are going well at the moment! Sponsorship is...steady, with the likes of Car Tribe helping us out enormously (see our sponsor’s page), and a big thanks to all the other people that have helped us out so far. Our car is officially legal on the road now! And yes we have had many funny looks! Just in time for our first press photo shoot tomorrow in Bicester, so we’ll have a new album with those photos up soon, as I know our photos are currently rather out of date! Ah yes, and hopefully we’ll stick up a video of people giving us random stares! If you want to tell us your latest thoughts, the comment section is always open! More updates soon!
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News Bulletin Number: 3		Hello Everyone, We at Team Swifty hope that you are all well and enjoying the new year. You will probably be reading this news bulletin because of a little email sent to you! We have managed to improve our website so that we can keep you all instantly up to date on what’s going on with our progress. We wanted to let you no that are online donation page is now live. If you go to our charities page and click on the logo (WillWeMakeIt), this will take you directly to our fundraising profile. This adventure would not be possible without your support. As well as raising huge amounts for charity, we also need support to finance this huge 8000 mile journey. We hope that you would be interested in supporting Team Swifty in getting to Mongolia. We aren’t expecting huge donations, but any little bit will help us on our way, and be hugely appreciated. Also! We should have some more news on Maria (the car) very soon, along with some photos and videos of our latest modifications to her!
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News Bulletin Number: 2		Hey People, Thanks for all your comments so far! Much appreciate all the love and support!! Now its early days, so the charities and donating stuff isn’t quite ready! That’s because we have to use the Mongol Rally’s official method of donating online...but it shall be ready soon! and will be adding it to our charities section! We’ll Keep you updated! We have plenty more to do yet! :-)
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News Bulletin Number: 1		Welcome! Our official website has gone live! I hope everything is ok, it should give you some random details about our adventure. This being the initial launch, not everything is quite finished, such as the map! We’re not sure if it’s our final route or not, and more check points are to be added! The charity section will be modified soon with the official method of fund-raising, and general kinda thing like that! We will keep you informed here in the news section of all changes to the website, the car and our plans!! :-D
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