News In Brief
On 27th September the DoT announced that they were dropping funding for any ‘improvements’ to the A303 past Stonehenge ‘for the foreseeable future’. They confirmed that all the surface routes proposed for duelling of the road had been rejected and that they could not currently afford the three mile £300 million long tunnel alternative.
At the road camp near Bingley, West Yorkshire the Highways Agency have run out of money for the clearance contract and so work won’t be starting for a least a year. Contact Leeds Earth First! on: 0113 225 4686.
A book about Twyford Down and the M3 is being put together by the people who were involved. If you were there, accounts, photographs, personal archives etc. are needed. On 12th October there will be a meeting and exhibition in Winchester, with a full moon picnic on St. Catherines Hill the night before. For more details phone: 01962 868763.
The Northern Earth First! Regional Gathering will be taking place 1st—3rd November at Bingley Rye Loaf Camp. Get in touch if you can help organise, give workshops, have any input or are simply interested in attending. Tents and food for two days will be needed. Contact: 0113 262 9365.
There will be a guide with tips on how to put together an EF! gathering ready soon. It will be available from Avon Gorge EF!
Earth First! will be having a stall at the Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday 19th October. Any leaflets that people would like to be given out or displayed there please send them to the Action Update as soon as possible.
There will not be the expected Earth First! National Action this year. This is due to everybody being busy with other action and campaigns. Instead of this at the South East Regional Earth First! Gathering the idea of a National Action for next March was discussed and this seems a far more realistic idea. Watch this space!
More Power Now! is a situationist inspired climbing magazine and is available for 50p from C.H., PO Box 446, Sheffield S1 1NY.
On 3rd October, Simon Sunderland, originally sentenced to five years for graffiti, had his sentence reduced on appeal to two years. He has now been released. Only about another 60,000 to go!