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Breedon Church, Oil in Charnwood, The PaddockPhone Masts, Statue of Liberty, Water Fluoridation
Breedon Church in Danger
Airport Growth Threatens Church
BBC article about the possible plans to demolish St. Mary and St. Hardulph Church on Breedon Hill to allow for the extension of East Midlands Airport (October 2002)
   
The Anglo Saxon Carvings in Breedon Church
Descriptions and pics of some of the finest Anglo Saxon carvings in England including the fab Anglian Beast

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Oil in Charnwood
Charnwood Forest Oil Action Group
The latest news and info on the fight to stop Technology Investment & Exploration Ltd (TIEL) exploring for oil in the heart of Charnwood Forest

Oil Company’s 'Microlepton' Technology Dismissed
Interesting Physics Web article suggesting that the TIEL oil company is relying on bogus technology, when all the available geological evidence suggests there is no oil to be found (July 2002)
The Paddock
The Paddock
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Committee For The Paddock is asking for your help to save a lovely area of wild land to the west of Hinckley in Leicestershire.  Site is one long page so keep scrolling, lower down you'll find news of other local campaigns in Hinckley.

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Phone Masts
Green Campaign Stops Phone Mast
Article on the Green Party web site about a successful challenge to a phone mast in Clarendon Park

How Mobile Phone Masts 'Vanish'
BBC article on the extraordinary lengths some mobile phone operators are going to to conceal the masts that form their networks, plus links to other phone mast articles

Mast Sanity
Hard to read (that may just be me) but informative anti phone mast site

Powerwatch
Info on mobile phone mast, mobile phones and the electrical appliances in our homes


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Statue of Liberty
New Home Plans For Our Liberty Landmark
Leicester Mercury article on the future of the liberty statue that stood on the top of the Liberty Works factory for over 80 years. Should it go up on top of the new student flats that replaced the factory (like the developers promised it would)? Where do you think it should go?

Send in your suggestions to the Editor of the Leicester Mercury

Statue of Liberty
Photo of the statue as it was - a well known landmark on the Upperton Road in the West End - on the Leicester Research site. Scroll down to find it.


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Water Fluoridation
Doug Cross in the Leicester Mercury
Leicester Mercury article on fluoride makes it all the way to TaxTyranny, a Canadian website!

Fluoride: Give People A Right to Choose
Leicester Mercury editorial 8 Sep 2003, reprinted on the Fluoride Action Network site

Fluoride.org.uk
Fluoride news, facts and articles

National Pure Water Association Campaign Against Flouridation
Fluoride news, facts and articles


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