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We campaign for social and environmental justice in North Devon.
Published and promoted on behalf of North Devon Green Party by Neil Basil, c/o 52 Chambercombe Road, Ilfracombe, Devon EX34 9PH.
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Artur Dron', Ukrainian soldier poet - White Cross wind farm decision - Webinars - VE Day - Gaza - Garden - North Devon
On Tuesday the University of Exeter ran an in-person and online launch for We Are Here, a deeply moving book of poems by the Ukrainian soldier poet Artur Dron’. The university formed an editorial team...
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May 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Local election triumph; new book by star poet; Gaza update; Dr Pat Hart; Big River Watch - North Devon
The news came on Friday, just before we sat down for lunch with friends at the Jack Russell in Swimbridge, was a rare treat. The treat became rather more of one, with a bottle of Prosecco, when we saw...
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May 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Extinction Rebellion, Easter Eggs, Planning & campaigning in Ilfracombe - North Devon
Photo: Caroline Lucas MP addressing Extinction Rebellion demonstrators 1 May 2019 A few days ago I chatted with Extinction Rebellion (XR) colleagues in North Devon about the movement and its future. I...
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April 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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✋Let's stop rewarding South West Water for failure.
🚽It's time to flush this failed experiment with privatisation down the drain.
💩With its disgusting record on sewage spills and eye-watering bills this water company should be front of the queue for nationalisation.
A graphic showing sewage spilling into a river with the text: Take South West Water into public ownership.
April 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Hele Corn Mill - BBC coverage of the US and Gaza - a David Hockney moment - the Good Friday Procession of the Cross - North Devon
In a week of so much horrible news, I start with something very positive – the waterwheel turning at Hele Mill in the video above. Rosie and I visited Hele, just east of Ilfracombe, to deliver leaflet...
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April 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Canvassing in Ilfracombe - Walking on Exmoor - Trump tariffs - Talking with our MP about Gaza - Potholes - Wild garlic - North Devon
Photo: Ilfracombe Rosie and I have canvassed in Ilfracombe for Cllr Sara Wilson the past two Saturdays. It was extremely breezy on the first one – easily as bracing as Skegness. Sara is a strong candi...
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April 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Devon Local Nature Partnership - SAS petition - Flourishing Culture Awards - Parracombe Festival - North Devon
PHOTO – Dennington Hill, Swimbridge The Asphalt Industry Alliance’s (AIA) Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey has found that £16.81bn is required by councils to bring the network up...
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April 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Gaza genocide - White Cross Wind Farm - Local Government Reorganisation - The Men's Shed - The Palestine Solidarity Campaign North Devon - North Devon
Thank you, Richard Burgon MP, for what you are doing to prevent the Gaza genocide that Israel is carrying out while the world does nothing much – especially our own craven government. This is my lates...
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March 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Green Party campaigning - retirement just a phase - bird ID and an otter on the Taw - North Devon
I owe my election as a district councillor in May 2023 to my North Devon Green Party colleagues. They photographed and designed, had printed and then delivered four rounds of leaflets and cards. They ...
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March 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Spring moth, Local Government Reorganisation, BBC Moral Panic, Suffolk, Trump and Kompromat, Lambing time. - North Devon
The moth that appeared on our summerhouse door to announce Spring on 1 March, which featured in Blog 10, is a Dotted Border, Agriopsis marginaria, which flies Feb-April. The female is flightless and t...
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March 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Environment Secretary Steve Reed is visiting Lake Windermere on his 'Things Can Only Get Cleaner' tour.

But the reality is that can only happen if we take back control of our water.

Essential utilities like water and sewage should be run for people, not profit.
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. THINGS CAN ONLY GET CLEANER... IF WE TAKE BACK CONTROL OF OUR WATER Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
March 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Wild Pages, Waste & Recycling, Local Government reorganisation, Spring, Writing Workshop, Medieval Concert - North Devon
I have read poems from The Thermobaric Playground to the local branch of the Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) on two occasions. The book, published in 2022, opens with a section on my North Devon habitat. T...
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March 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Lies, fields, housing, frogspawn and a living willow tepee / birdwatching hide - North Devon
President Zelensky rightly said that President Trump is trapped inside a bubble of Russian disinformation. This has been widely reported for obvious reasons but I have not seen one mention of the sour...
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February 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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"Green MPs and Peers will be pressing the government to end this subsidy scandal and invest people’s money where it will make a real difference to them."

@adrianramsay.bsky.social on the Government's plan to further subsidise Drax power station.
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. DRAX: A GREEN ENERGY SCAM Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ "Drax has benefitted from over £6 billion in subsidies since 2012 and neither taxpayers nor the environment can afford a penny more. The money should be used to help fund a national scheme of home insulation that would cut people's energy bills and help to reduce energy use." Adrian Ramsay MP, Green Party Co-leader I MP Waveney Valley
February 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Read Councillor Mark Haworth-Booth's latest blog, Holocaust Memorial Day, Defending Our Juries, Speedwatch, the Shoebill and Signs of Spring.
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Holocaust Memorial Day, Defending Our Juries, Speedwatch, the Shoebill and Signs of Spring - North Devon
Spring – Snowdrops in St James’s Churchyard, Swimbridge Last Monday was Holocaust Memorial Day and, like many others, I listened on the radio to heart-rending testimonies broadcast from the Auschwitz ...
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February 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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On Water Quality, BT as farce or tragedy, Carnival and RIP Michael Longley - North Devon
Welcome to my latest blog post… I am a member of the Taw Torridge Estuary Forum, which met last Monday evening. Louise Wainwright, chair of Avon River Champions in South Devon, was our special guest. ...
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January 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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🚨 Bad week for climate action

🛫 Labour backing airport expansion!

🚫 Landmark climate and nature legislation blocked!

Want to be part of the solution? Join the only party fighting for real action on the climate crisis below ⤵️

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REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. LABOUR EXPANDING AIRPORTS... AND BLOCKING CLIMATE AND NATURE BILL Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
January 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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To celebrate the opening of Barnstaple & North Devon Museum's Annual Photographic Open Exhibition on the 25th January 2025 please join Mark Haworth-Booth for a FREE talk on 'Festivals, Fairs, Carnivals and the Photography of Movement'.
For more info and to book your ticket, follow the link below:
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January 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Read North Devon Green Party member, Netti Pearson's letter in today's Guardian:
Challenge the orthodoxy and get Boris Johnson’s 40 new hospitals built | Letters
Letters: Infrastructure spending means investment in people, writes Netti Pearson, while Ann Eastman suggests corporate opportunities for the NHS and Brandi Leach calls on UK billionaires to be philan...
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January 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Councillor Mark Haworth-Booth’s blog - North Devon
Cookham-on-Thames Over the past week I was involved with the sudden crisis in local government inflicted on us by Labour ministers, while also spending time with the paintings of one of England’s most...
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January 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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CLLRMHB blog instalment 2 - North Devon
How strange it was to find the Labour government giving the country three weeks to consider sweeping new changes to local government that no one had asked for, while simultaneously specifying three ye...
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January 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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A statement from Devon Green Party councillors re the English Devolution White paper
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KEEP LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL - North Devon
An open letter from Green Party councillors to residents of Devon Labour’s Devolution plans will radically reshape local government in Devon [*]. They aim to transfer powers from Whitehall to Strategi...
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January 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish members and friends from everyone at the Green Party.
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. HAPPY HANUKKAH from the Green Party Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
December 25, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Peaceful, Progressive and Green New Year.
No matter what 2025 brings, we will fight even harder for social and environmental justice. Please join us and help to build a better future for all.
December 24, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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Unlike other parties, we are not funded by the mega-rich or big business. We are proud to be people powered and funded by supporters like you! 💚

Donate here 👉 https://donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/
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December 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM