Lancaster & District Green Party

Routes to Solutions

Chris Coates — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:03:51 +0000

Bicycology are organising a week long festival of Cycling and Sustainability from August 24th to 30th. called - Routes to Solutions. The festival includes everything from practical skills-training to entertaining and informative Film Nights and Workshops.All the events are free,
so give them a call or email,
Get on your bike and get involved!
More details on the Bicycology website.

Newton Estate Fun Day

Chris Coates — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:03:00 +0000

Over 50 young people and adults had a great day on Saturday at the Newton Estate Fun Day.Bulk Ward Councillor Andrew Kay, who helped organise the event said “This was Newton estates first community event for some years and it was a great success - and the sun shone for once.”

The event included an outdoor sound system , giant tug of war and a penalty shoot-out. City council play workers did parachute games for younger kids.

Keep Racists Out of Lancaster

Chris Coates — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:23:57 +0000

Within half an hour of the British National Party (BNP) setting up a stall in Lancaster Market Square this saturday there was a spontaneous response from local concerned people who gathered quickly and surrounded the BNP stall. Standing in front of the stall with anti-fascist leaflets the local people shouted “keep racists out of Lancaster”. Unable to continue leafleting the BNP got fed up and packed up their stall and eventually drove off to cheers and jeers and were told not to come back!
The full story is posted on the Indymedia website.

FOE Rat Race

Chris Coates — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:48:01 +0000

The work of cartoonist POLYP, has been animated and can be seen on the International Friends of the Earth YouTube. The rat race cartoon appears in the new Big Green View newspaper launched by the Green party across North Lancashire over the summer. POLYPs work has previously appeared in The Big Issue, The New Internationalist and has been used to support many campaigns.
To see more cartoons check out the POLYP website.

Canal Corridor Application Deadline

Chris Coates — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:25:57 +0000

Residents group Its Our City have produced a briefing for people who want to send in representations to the City Council Planning Dept on the current Centros applications for the Canal Corridor. Details can be found on the Its Our City website.
The deadline for getting responses in is Aug 7th.

Scrap Road Tax & Charge Polluters

Chris Coates — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:01:41 +0000

Green Party Principal Speaker , Caroline Lucas MEP, has condemned chancellor Alastair Darling’s decision to delay the planned increase in fuel duty for a second time.Dr Lucas argues that cutting fuel prices, increasing fuel consumption, can only deepen the looming crisis. Instead, Greens want the Road Tax scrapped, moving the responsibility onto fuel duty, a windfall tax on excess oil company profits, and an increase in public transport investment.

Dr Lucas said: “Once again, we’re being held hostage by the big energy companies, and are paying for it at the pump. Alastair Darling thinks subsidising higher fuel use will help, but that is exactly the thinking that caused the problem in the first place.”
For the full story see the Green Party National Website.

Post Office Adding to Parking Chaos

Chris Coates — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:43:21 +0000

Residents in Bowerham were fortunate not to lose their local Post Office in the recent round of Network Changes, however, the knock-on effects of closures elsewhere in town are starting to increase traffic and parking problems around the Bowerham Post Office.

John O’Gaunt Green Cllr Jude Towers said “I did predict that we would feel the knock-on effects of closures elsewhere. We are already significantly affected by University of Cumbria traffic in this area and this is just adding to the parking chaos.”

In response to concerns from local residents, Jude has written to both the Royal Mail group and to Post watch informing them of these problems and asking them to follow up in areas where closures have occured to assess the real impact on local communities, both those who are directly affected with their local Post Office having been shut down and those communities now living with the knock-on effects.

New University Travel Website

Chris Coates — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:44:41 +0000

A new University travel website is now available on the main University website. The information provided is aimed at staff, students and visitors to the University and provides comprehensive information and links on public transport, cycling, car sharing, car parking, journey planning, commuting statistics and the University’s Travel Plan.

See; www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/estates/travel/ for details

North Lancs Green Newspaper Launched

Chris Coates — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:40:55 +0000

A new paper entitled The Big Green View has been launched by the Green party in North Lancashire, covering Lancaster, Morecambe, Fleetwood and all places in-between. The paper covers green politics from a wide variety of different angles
- from the global to the local.

New party chair Melanie Forrest said “Everybody is trying to be environment friendly these days, but the Greens are still the only political party to put the principles of environmental and social justice at the heart of all our policies. We hope the Big Green View will help to get across our ideas to more people.”

The 8 page paper will be delivered free to households across the District. It includes; local news, interviews, a special feature on sustainable fisheries and a green business page.

A ‘Real’ Craft Fair

Chris Coates — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:55:16 +0000

A ‘real craft fair’ with hand-crafted goods made by local artisans.

10am-4pm. Sunday 17th August
Victoria Institute, Caton, Lancaster, LA2 9QT.

Entry is Free. Refreshments available.
Full details on the website www.lunevalleycraftfairs.co.uk