This Is Tapp

Tyneside Action for People and Planet, known to their friends as TAPP, are up to all sorts. On National Bike to Work Day, activists dressed as security guards leafleted cars in the city centre with official looking Vehicle Immobilisation Notices, identifying them as dangerous. Cars parked at the Department of Environment headquarters were particularly targeted - one day surely isn’t much too expect from them after all - but the DOE responded by reporting TAPP for littering! Other TAPP projects: monthly cycling actions are being held to claim back a cycle route under ownership of the road construction firm Robert McAlpine; the plight of 160 mature trees about to die in the name of road widening is being highlighted, and Country Watch is taking action against animal snares and farm animal abuses.