Sunday 26 October 2014
Saturday 25 October 2014
Sid hope interviewed by mark antony raines ghostman
THANKS GHOSTMAN ... here goes ..
The Stonehenge festival campaign exists to lobby, Protest, attend meetings, raise awareness, and maintain links with interested parties, to re-establish ‘the peoples free festival’ @ or near
Stonehenge. My inspiration ? Simple ... the Stonehenge free festival, free festival and new age traveller movement supported a network of travellers, the counter-culture and city folk
who flocked to Stonehenge in their thousands. It still plays an important part in many peoples lives especially those who regularly attend the equinoxes and solstice gatherings @ Stonehenge
and provided a self sufficient alternative community – enough gatherings throughout the country to push a sizable community of the dole and into profit. At the heart of these gatherings
is a culture of anti-materialism, sharing and a passion for freedom and open spaces where middle class idealists mix with the products of unemployment and poverty, young and old, disillusioned
with living in stressful inner cities where housing is poor, job non-existent and families fractured. Free festival’s & gatherings have always attracted the unemployed or those on low incomes
and for many kids provides a first time opportunity to learn about and experience country life. A cheap annual holiday for whom not much else is provided. In an increasingly secular
society Stonehenge holds a mystical significance for many.
Formed in Aug 2011 the campaign continues to highlight the need for the festival’s return on a separate site – part of any solution to restore dignity @ Stonehenge and the current overcrowding
and mismanagement of summer solstice Stonehenge. The campaign regularly attends meetings with custodians English Heritage over our right to access and to help to ensure the smooth
running of Stonehenge gatherings. This year the campaign celebrated the 30th anniversary of the original free festival by releasing an anniversary C.D featuring live and studio recorded music
by bands who either appeared @ the festival or the campaign’s annual benefit gigs. Money raised from its proceeds goes to continuing our work and establishing a free festival fund.
The campaign runs an info and merchandise stall, as well as providing sound and light throughout the night for those gathered on the Stonehenge drove and other events. Nothing better illustrates
the struggle between rich and poor than issues surrounding land ownership and who has access to land. Many festival goers prefer to live nomadic or semi nomadic lifestyles, part of an
attempt to escape the ‘rat race’ and live a more self sufficient and spiritual lifestyle. Unfortunately they have been criminalised and effectively outlawed – legislation having abolished the duty on
local authorities to provide adequate sites. Ministers have made it clear that their intention is to push nomadic people into abandoning their way of life in favour of living in houses. For
travellers free gatherings are a refuge. After lobbying M.P’s, archaeologists, the National Trust, E.H, the M.O.D, private landowners, etc, the campaign continues to locate a suitable festival site.
I hope this helps .. please let us know if you do anything with it. You can contact me on 07985410448 email: festivalcampaign2012@hotmail.co.uk www.stonehengefestivalcampaign.co.uk or
check out Sid Hope on face book. Cheers !!
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- Remove bandage after 1 hour
- Wash tattoo with warm soapy water
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- Use common sense
Farmland birds show rapid decline
Farmland birds are at their lowest levels since records began, according to government figures.
Numbers of birds such as grey partridge, turtle dove and the starling are down more than 85% since 1970s.
But there has been an increase in some other bird species, including seabirds.
The figures come from an assessment of wild bird populations in England, which has been compiled by the Department for Environment and covers 118 different bird species.
It includes data on 19 species reliant on the farmed countryside.
Over the last 40 years, indicators used in the report show a decline in farmland birds of 56%, with turtle doves declining the most rapidly - down 96% since 1970.
Other species under pressure include skylarks - down 62% since 1970 - and lapwings which are down by 50%.
Much of this decline is blamed on the rapid change in farmland management in the late 1970s and early 1990s.
Modern intensive farming methods means that fields have become much bigger, and more chemicals are used. With a significant loss of hedgerows, birds have fewer places to nest.-read more-http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29728558
save the beavers-Legal fight begins to save family of beavers in Devon
Campaigners have begun legal action to prevent the government from capturing a family of wild beavers in Devon.
Friends of the Earth said because groups already live in the wild in Scotland, the beavers are protected in England under EU laws.
The River Otter beavers are believed to be the only wild ones living in England.
The government said they could be carrying disease and wants to test and re-home them in captivity.
The three beavers, thought to be two adults and a juvenile, were first reported to be living on the river in the summer of 2013 and no date has been set for trapping them.
The beavers were first reported to be living on the river in the summer of 2013
Defra wants to rehome the beavers "in a suitable location"
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the beavers could be carrying a disease "not currently present in the UK".
Friends of the Earth has filed papers at the High Court in London requesting a judicial review into whether Natural England followed the correct procedures in issuing licences for capturing the beavers.
Spokesman Alasdair Cameron said: "You cannot just capture a population without considering its conservation status.
"They are entitled to protection as a legally protected species under European law.
"We know that beavers can bring many benefits, such as boosting fish stocks, improving biodiversity and helping to prevent flooding - as well as injecting a little more joy into our landscape."
A Defra spokesperson said: "Beavers have not been an established part of our wildlife for the last 500 years and their presence could have a negative impact on the surrounding environment and wildlife.
"These animals may also carry a disease which could pose a risk to human health.
"Once captured and tested, we intend to rehome them in a suitable location, and all decisions will be made with the welfare of the beavers in mind."
Surgeons transplant heart that had stopped beating
Surgeons in Australia say they have performed the first heart transplant using a "dead heart".
Donor hearts from adults usually come from people who are confirmed as brain dead but with a heart still beating.
A team at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney revived and then transplanted hearts that had stopped beating for up to 20 minutes.
The first patient who received a heart said she felt a decade younger and was now a "different person".
Hearts are the only organ that is not used after the heart has stopped beating - known as donation after circulatory death.
Beating hearts are normally taken from brain-dead people, kept on ice for around four hours and then transplanted to patients.
'Significant development'
The novel technique used in Sydney involved taking a heart that had stopped beating and reviving it in a machine known as a "heart-in-a-box".
The heart is kept warm, the heartbeat is restored and a nourishing fluid helps reduce damage to the heart muscle.
The first person to have the surgery was Michelle Gribilas, 57, who was suffering from congenital heart failure. She had the surgery more than two months ago.
"Now I'm a different person altogether," she said. "I feel like I'm 40 years old - I'm very lucky."
There have since been a further two successful operations.
Prof Peter MacDonald, head of St Vincent's heart transplant unit, said: "This breakthrough represents a major inroad to reducing the shortage of donor organs."
It is thought the heart-in-a-box, which is being tested at sites around the world, could save up to 30% more lives by increasing the number of -read more-http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29751880
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