United Kingdom: Road building programme gets green light by stealth

Ecologist: With a government seemingly intent on pushing through the latest road-building programme via its localism agenda campaigners are readying themselves for combined resistance using legal experts, alliance groupings and direct action The 'first and worst' of the current tranche of new roads is the £120m Bexhill Bypass set to cut a swath through the pellucid water meadows and reed beds of Combe Haven Valley with construction slated for January 2013. Speaking at a weekend camp there (Sep 29-30), John...

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