In December Londoners were treated to a radio message about the 'Climate Change Criminals'.

John Prescott has gone motor-mad, approving 27 miles of road for MEL (Midland Express Limited), despite the fact that local Labour MPs were elected on the strength of a promise not to go ahead with the road.

The new M65 motorway just outside Manchester was finally opened in mid December.

At the end of February 600 representatives of peoples movements will meet in Geneva to establish a platform for worldwide action against trade liberalisation - the Peoples' Global Action against "Free" Trade and the WTO (PGA).

20 acres of Bristol's favourite park is still under threat from Australian multinational Pioneer Aggregates, who now have planning permission to expand their quarry.

Locals residents in Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk, have set up a camp to stop an access road being built through virtually untouched water meadows to reach Green King Brewery.

Boosting the growing Earth First!/workers rights alliance, the Manchester Argos shop was targeted before Christmas in solidarity with the sacked Liverpool Dockers.

On 22nd December protestors halted traffic going into Faslane Naval base for 1.

The first trees have been cut down on the Leyton Relief Road (LRR) route in East London.

Manchester airport again became the target of protests to highlight issues which weren't debated at the Kyoto climate talks.

On the 14th of January, Gardai (police) and about 20 men with chainsaws started cutting trees at Glen of the Downs, the first Irish road camp.

There will be a preliminary organising meeting for anyone interested in organising the next Earth First! Summer Gathering (ideally at least one representative from each EF! group).

Making Waves, formerly known as the Sea Sabs, charted up the river Thames to appear at the camp at Kingston in West London.

During the EU Summit, a press conference was disrupted over EU expansion in central and eastern Europe, the MAI and patents on life.

Reclaim the Streets and Strike Oil!

The police have apologised to local councillors for their behaviour at the Oxford street party on November 1st.

Nottingham EF! activists upstaged Shell by scaling flag poles and lamp posts outside a Nottingham hotel hosting a Shell conference.

In mid December activists from across Europe, Russia and Nigeria, held an ASEED gathering which ran parallel to the EU summit focusing on globalisation and corporate rule.

On the 22nd of December people hindered the felling of a mature wood in the way of the new German A20 coastal motorway (300km long!

On the 6th of December, 5 Finnish ALF activists targeted a fur farm in an attempt to spray the farmed foxes with an harmless Henna dye.

The first arrests at a cannabis users 'Turn Yourself In' happened at the beginning of the event on 14th December.

On 22nd December 45 men and women in Acteal, a community in Polho in the Zapatista Autonomous Municipality, Chiapas, Mexico were gunned down by a paramilitary group.

There will be an open day for the Xanadu Campaign (70 Acres of leisure, billed as the UKs largest indoor leisure complex).

Activists arrested at the office occupation after the Doe Hill Opencast action in October have been charged with Aggravated Trespass (section 68 CJA) and stopping work (section 241 of the labour relations act).

Updates and bulletins...

Feature Article: The New Deal is part of Labour's attempt to reduce unemployment and is based on the ethos that everyone must work to survive regardless of their situation.

Upcoming dates on the calendar.

Aldermaston peace camp - 0117 9393746

3 year prison sentences have been handed out to each of the 'GANDALF 3' for reporting on direct action: the 3 were found guilty of 'conspiracy to incite persons unknown to commit criminal damage.

Earth First! and other direct action groups.