At the Green Party conference in Blackpool today, top North West candidate Peter Cranie urged the Green Party to redouble its efforts to push the far-right BNP out of this June’s Euro-election race.
Liverpool-based Peter Cranie is the candidate set to thwart the electoral dream of BNP leader Nick Griffin. In regional list elections, the big three parties usually take most of the seats, and the highest-polling candidate from a smaller party the last seat. In the North West – where the far right seeks to build on the fears and insecurities of the recession – the race for the last seat will almost certainly be between the Greens and the BNP.
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Bike the Bay – Smartypants Challenge.
Indigo Moon Theatre presents ‘The Lost Forest’-
British Energy – under their new French owners EDF – held a PR exercise on Tues 10th March at the Platform in Morecambe. A mix of pro and anti-nuclear members of the small audience asked questions of a panel of ‘nuclear experts’ following a presentation of the proposals for a third reactor to be built at Heysham.
Green Councillors have sent in their submissions to the Public Inquiry into the Centros development. Cllr Chris Coates said ” With shops closing in the City almost every week it is even more important that this massive shopping development is defeated.”
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Caroline Lucas, Green Party Leader and MEP for the South East will speak at a meeting in Lancaster in March just prior to the Green Party spring conference in Blackpool.
Following a seven hour budget meeting, that saw amendments from all party’s, Lancaster City Council finally set a budget for the next year. Speaking afterwards Green Group leader Cllr Chris Coates said “The budget that we started with at the beginning of the meeting was bad enough, what we have ended up with is a real dogs-dinner - where ever you live in the District you will be affected one way or another by the cuts in this budget.” 
