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Climate Change

Shock and Awe

by Gabriel Carlyle | Feature | February 2013

PN’s Gabriel Carlyle reports on the sometimes shambolic, always peaceful and often heroic resistance to the tree-felling in Combe Haven for the Hastings-Bexhill Link Road, and the lessons learned.

Sweet special places

by Derrick Coffee | Feature | November 2012

A Hastings Alliance speech at the Combe Haven Defenders' camp.

Combe Haven Defenders

by Patrick Nicholson | Feature | November 2012

A warning of things to come: a temporary anti-road camp on the South Coast

Defeat Osborne’s road follies

by John Stewart | Feature | November 2012

One of Britain's most effective environmentalists explains how the government's roads programme could be stopped in its tracks at the very beginning.

Downsizing XL

by PN | News in Brief | March 2013

On 15 February, Washington DC police arrested 48 protesters in front of the White House, including Robert Kennedy Jr, former US president John F Kennedy’s nephew, and actor ...

Wave of support for climate activists being sued for £5m

by David Polden | News | March 2013

There has been a furious response to the news that transnational power company EDF is suing 21 anti-climate change activists for £5m for shutting down an EDF power station in Nottinghamshire for a week.