Over the past few years, Millions of pounds of public money have been spent on a full refurbishment of Leeds Grand Theatre. Only months after it was officially re-opened though, the Grand Theatre are busy dragging their ‘classy' new image into the gutter by bringing racism centre-stage.

Undercover with the anarchist mob: paying a visit to one of the UK's worst tabloids

  Climate Campers join the pickets at Tower Hamlets College to show their solidarity with the UCU members on strike there.

Local produce and sustainability go hand in hand, and if capitalism is the crisis can we find another way to trade? Practical solutions like trading food and resources can be enacted now, and some people are doing just that at Climate Camp by trading their allotment produce.

Under this weeks Climate Camp the Daily Mail has visited us several times. Now its time for us to repay the courtesy and pay them a return visit and like them we feel familiar enough not to need to announce our visit in advance. Were just going to pop in.

On August 20 2009, Paisley Young Team broke into the server of the Tayside police force. They had a quick look around and found nothing of interest (to them) before defacing the front page and posting the details of how they cracked the system right there. Their findings provide some insight into how the UK police computer network is set up and used. No software updates and >100 days since last ro…

A perspective paper produced by members of the Anarchist Federation within climate camp 2009.

here's a handy map of arms dealers in Sheffield

Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs - Calling all new sabs!

Our shows from the 27th and 28th of August are now available for your listening pleasure

  Report from workshop hosted by the anarchist federation on how to best build links between the activism of the Social Ecology movement and those in the workplace.

(For Thursday 27th Breaking News see IMC London's new timeline)

Wednesday 26th August saw hundreds of Climate activists converge on Blackheath in Greenwich for the set up of the 2009 London Climate Camp. Groups gathered at locations across the city for midday, awaiting instructions to be sent by SMS which led them in stages towards the site. The starting locations were specifically chosen to hi…

Corporate criminals Tesco had one of their posters improved last weekend to more accurately reflect their attitude to the community of Oakwood, where they are planning a huge expansion to their existing supermarket. The poster (observed at 1800h on Saturday 22nd August 2009 outside Rico's restaurant, Oakwood) had been amended to read, "We want 2 say sod you Oakwood." Their planning application is …

08444 872 207 : This is the dispatch number for this years Climate Camp for calling in to leave a short audio recording that can be uploaded to the Indymedia websites. Full coverage of the camp will be found on the IMC London site - (http://london.indymedia.org) - and IMC Northern England will be providing facilities for campers to upload their news from the site. Come find us in the Yorkshire Nei…

A proposed open cast coal mine has been refused planning permission by Leeds City Council.

The metropolitan police CO11 Public Order Operational Command Unit has opened an account on Twitter in order to relay information regarding the forthcoming Camp for Climate Action protest in London starting on Wednesday 26th August 2009, which many northern activists will be attending and IMC Northern is providing "Be the Media" access for campers.

They say it is designed specifically to relay in…

There are signs that a new round of strikes by fire fighters could take place in the next month. The government could face industrial action on a scale not seen since the Fire Brigades’ Union (FBU) in 2002.

Nuclear Power produces EMISSIONS MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN CO2 - not to mention nearly 500,000 tonnes of Co2 last year from Sellafield's gas plant. The barrage of pro nuke propaganda is aiming to bounce the country into nuclear new build.  MP for Copeland Jamie Reed has been handsomely rewarded for consistently lying to Parliament about "homegrown, climate friendly and safe" nuclear power. 

Despite massive opposition, and a hard fought campaign in the city of York which resulted in the City Council attempting to ban the sale of Fois Gras from sale anywhere within it's walls (which was subject to a legal challenge over their right to do this by some with vested interests), it seems the message just isn't getting through to some food outlets in the North who insist on continuing to sel…

Over a year ago Medical Justice published “Outsourcing Abuse”, a report that analysed near 300 cases of alleged assault during detention and removal. This led to the Home Secretary commissioning an independent investigation into the allegations, which to date has yet to be published.

Earth First! Summer Gathering 09

Lake District 18-24 August

The historic Odeon building in Bradford city centre is under threat once more after a planning application to completely demolish the building has been submitted to Bradford Council by Yorkshire Forward and Langtree Artisan. The onus is on local people to object to the plans to try and save one of Bradford's most iconic historical buildings.

Thodoris Iliopoulos is a prisoner of the Greek state. Here’s a new letter by him written whilst in the Korydalos prison.

There is a serious problem with the DNS system used by most indmedia sites and services at the moment. It isn't yet clear whether this is a result of a mistake, breakdown or mischief but people are working on it. This effects all websites, mailing lists and other services using the ".indymedia.org" domain.

This includes the imc-northern mailing lists and IRC chat system.

Some activists think it's a good thing that mainstream media outlets like The Guardian carry news about campaigns and actions. They should think again, as this example of on-line advertising illustrates.

Northern Indymedia now has it's own internet radio station which will be broadcasting content around the clock. We'd like to invite any groups in the north of England to upload their own radio shows in either mp3 or ogg format and we'll add them to the playlist! Whether it be your ramblings on the state of "The State" or playlists of local bands who are active in the area, we want you to be heard.…

Anonymous activists have successfully sabotaged the Glentaggart opencast coal mine in South Lanarkshire. The unknown individual/s have disabled the conveyor belt that moves coal from the mine to Ravenstruther rail terminal from where the coal is sent to Drax power station in Yorkshire.

30th July - 1st August

SHOOTING BUTTS BURNT TO THE GROUND (Pennines)

PHEASANT PEN SMASHING (Wetherby) 

"DOUGLAS FAMILY BUNNY BUTCHERS" (Market Rasen)

GLAXO BILLBOARDS CUT DOWN, PAINTED OVER (Northern England)

Campaining fo the Great Climate Swoop begins in earnest with representatives of Drax and Ratcliffe power stations taking to the microphones in order to convince voters why their power station should be targeted by a mass direct action this august.

On Monday 27th July, activists occupied land near the entrance of Highgate Rabbit Farm, in Lincolnshire, in protest against their breeding of rabbits and ferrets for the vivisection industry. Highgate Farm supply several university and commercial laboratories, including Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). In conjunction with Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) the campers are holding a peaceful prot…