News: Community, environment, regeneration

27.02.2004 Campaigners today are staging a “sleep-in” outside a government conference on night flights at the launch of a Europe-wide campaign to ban night flights at all European airports.

26.02.2004 The Welsh Assembly has still to decide whether or not it will agree to the commercial development of GM crops it said today.

23.02.2004 Friends of the Earth has warned that it would consider a legal challenge if the government pushes ahead with the decision to force through Chardon LL GM maize for commercial growing in the UK.

20.02.2004 London shoppers got a taste of the countryside after Greenpeace released more than thirty costume cows into the flagship Sainsbury's store in Greenwich. The invasion is a protest against the supermarket chain's continued support for the GM industry.

19.02.2004 Controversial plans for a new runway at Heathrow airport have been thrown into fresh doubt by a government study which concludes that the only way to meet European pollution laws would be to enclose the nearby M4 motorway in a tunnel.

18.02.2004 Greengairs villagers in Scotland today renewed their calls for First Minister Jack McConnell to meet with them to discuss plans for a giant new waste dump near their village.

17.02.2004 Eleven Greenpeace volunteers received fines for taking action to expose lax security at British Energy's Sizewell B nuclear plant. The fines were handed down by the District Judge sitting at Lowestoft Magistrates Court.

09.02.2004 A national network of specialist environmental prosecutors is to be created in Scotland to tackle those companies and individuals who endanger human health, wildlife and the environment through their criminal actions. Friends of the Earth welcome the news.