Road News

Leadenham

Actions in progress but as always, more hands needed. Notts. EF! 0602 851235 or Rainbow Centre: 0602 585666.

Newbury

Private landowners started cutting down trees before the 'dozers arrive. 100 oaks already cut. Work regularly stopped. Nesting birds illegally disturbed. National FoE rally July 9th on Snelsmore Common. Oxford EF! planning future actions. Contact LETTIE 0635 36797.

Tinkers Bubble

Three month reprieve/delay in decision on "Stop Order" on site.

Bishop Stortford

NVDA campaign against local by-pass construction starting soon. More activists needed. Help on any level very useful. More to NVDA than sitting in a muddy field.

Sefton Coastal Road (Southport) Update

Planning objections in, but preparation for campaign needed. More info: Bill Joynson (Southport 25871).

Doverbridge By-pass

Near Stoke-on-Trent. Scheme to start soon. Local women desperate for help with NVDA.

In the last few days the DoT appears to have launched a co-ordinated campaign to put an end to the anti-roads protests. Last Wednesday G4 security illegally evicted protesters from Cuerden Valley Nature Park where protesters were occupying land threatened by the M65 extension. Then on Friday Reliance security carried out a similar action on protesters tree-sitting in the path of the Batheaston-Swainswick bypass, near Solsbury Hill outside Bath.

Information compiled by Road Alert! 0703 237809