The Fourth Battle Of Newbury?

The private security company ‘Pinkertons’ have won the security contract for the construction phase of the Newbury contract. An advert in The Sun on 18th June says: ‘urgent requirement: starting at up to £270 a week. Ex-forces and security professionals needed for a major construction project in the south-east’. Pinkertons, whose security in this country amounts to patrolling Asda superstores, are a US company whose boast is to have pursued and captured Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Known for their Union bashing activities they have head-hunted Haydon Price from Reliance Security to lead their operations on the Newbury contract. Why not go undercover with Pinkertons? Interview is by appointment only so phone: 0181 539 4448. At the interview you’ll be expected to complete a detailed application form, so prepare your references and identity prior to interview. (Example application forms are available from the Third Battle Office).

The fax and junk mail blockade of Costain and the Highways Agency has been very successful with Roger Jackson, contract director of Costain apparently receiving over one hundred calls on one day alone! Mountains of books, china figurines, lingaphone courses, sex toys, etc. are inundating them! Join in by phoning the Third Battle Office for a Costain address.

Even more intriguing are the calling cards covering Birmingham phone boxes inviting Steve (of the Highways Agency) to dominate you! A coalition of local residents and National environmental groups including FoE, Wildlife Trust, WWF, BBONT (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire Naturalist Trust) and the Third Battle of Newbury have been unsuccessful in seeking leave for judicial review on the decision to proceed with the construction at Newbury. The case, based on the irrationality of designating the Desmoulin Whorl snail habitat a Special Area of Conservation while also building a road through it, failed.

Meanwhile Costain, the company that has been awarded the Newbury Bypass construction contract, are in dire financial straits. Unable or unwilling to present their end of year results, trading in their shares has been suspended. They are expected to have made huge loses and could be bankrupt. They need to be hit hard and as frequently as possible all round the country. Costain are also advertising for construction workers in Newbury and are expected to start work in or around the third week of July. Fencing and construction of a compound, followed by the building of bridging structures over the rivers, canal and railways, are likely to be first things built.

If you’d like to be on the Third Battle of Newbury’s national phone tree call: 01635 45544. For the latest update call the information line on: 01635 550552 or visit the refurbished Web site.