See attached press release. read full story / add a comment

Campaigners are claiming a top casualty has been incurred at British Energy following the series of problems at Hinkley and other nuclear power stations. read full story / add a comment

Catholic marchers turn on Glastonbury pagans read full story / add a comment

The Stop Bristol Airport Expansion campaign (SBAE) believe that Bristol International Airport’s (BIA) Master Plan, launched today, could influence planning decisions, despite being a business plan and not a planning document. We will be closely scrutinising the plan in the light of the Stern Report published last week and last Saturday’s Climate Chaos rally. The Stern Report has emphasised the chaos and economic disaster that will follow if climate change is left unchecked, and acknowledges that aviation is the fastest growing source of CO2 emissions. The report should be a wake-up call for the Government and Local Authorities that the planned expansion of airports such as Bristol will damage the economy rather than enhance it. read full story / add a comment

Last week an awards ceremony was held in London to hand out gongs to those promoting renewables. Rolling out the red carpet for the stars (Bill Oddie), the British Renewable Energy Association proceeded to announce that British Renewable Energy Pioneer of the year was Somerset Biofuels Project -- a joint venture between Somerset County Council's transport chiefs and Ford Motor Company. read full story / add a comment

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Citizens Weapons Inspection at RNAS Yeovilton, near Yeovil, Somerset, on Saturday 1 July 2006 11am, All welcome. Also bike caravan to the demo calling at local arms factories. read full story / add a comment

Seems Avon and Somerset's Chief Constable has form... covering up for the murderers of a Nationalist human rights lawyer back in 2000. I wonder does this appear on his criminal record? read full story / add a comment

Hi dont want to bore you all with excess baggeage so heres the basics: read full story / add a comment

On site was a Home Grown Timber
landrover, check www.homegrowntimber.com
for there contact details etc. read full story / add a comment

During the Shepton Mallet Eviction, climbing baliffs were used to get a number of people down from the trees. read full story / add a comment

Baliffs, entered the site of a new tesco, at around 0600 wednesday morning, but unlike the previous eviction the baliffs and police met serious resistance. read full story / add a comment

Irritated by the annoying Gary Lineker in his attempt to shift more crisps to children? Well someone in Burnham-on-Sea has got their own back by adding text to a billboard... read full story / add a comment

The site was re-occupied last thursday and The protest site in Shepton mallet is still going strong, lots of building work has continued by activists including a multistorey tree house. read full story / add a comment

Activists are back on site today, Section 6 notices are up and the activists are occupying the trees

They are asking for anyone who can to get there ASAP.

The trees used for the last camp were destroyed after the eviction, but there's around 180 still waiting to be saved.

More news as it comes in.

Background to the protest can be seen here http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/02/334302.html?c=on#c142859 read full story / add a comment

Baliffs attempted to evict the site today (saturday) and were only stopped by the police, who apparently had not been informed. People are needed desperately, as eviction could now go ahead tommorow. The perimeter of the site is now guarded by security, so please phone the site phone 07749 110689 if you intend to come (please do!!). Tesco Vs Trees - WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?? read full story / add a comment

A Tree Protest Camp has been established at Shepton Mallet in Somerset. Its aim is to protect 300 to 400 mature decsidious trees from being felled to make way for a new TESCO store. There is strong local support for the camp. People are needed to help out at the camp. A war memorial is also set to be relocated for the store. read full story / add a comment

Dave Chapple, a Bridgwater postman and strike leader, well known in the town’s socialist and trade union circles, has published his first book.

The book, entitled “Henry Suss and the Jewish Working-Class of Manchester and Salford”, is Dave’s 90th birthday tribute to a remarkable Mancunian, now living at a home for the blind at Burnham on Sea.... read full story / add a comment

Dave Chapple, a Bridgwater postman and strike leader, well known in the town’s socialist and trade union circles, has published his first book. read full story / add a comment

When the ecosystem's down, it's time to give it a good kicking. That would seem to be the conclusions of Bristol International Airport's new growth plans¹, aimed at devising ever more efficient ways of destroying the climate and countryside around Bristol. read full story / add a comment