After months of careful planning, notably using a ballot to decide the target of the action, several hundreds of climate activists from around the UK swooped on Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire today.

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Newcastle Animal Rights Group in support with Vegi North East, SHAC Birmingham, SHAC Leeds, Hull Animal Rights along with numerous other animal rights groups and residents of Newcastle marched against vivisection today [9th October] in the city centre of Newcastle before proceeding to demonstrate against Sanofi Aventis.

Activists met at Newcastle Civic Centre for 12 pm and then set off at 12.45p…

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IMC Northern England will be providing ongoing coverage of the SHAC UK national campaign against Highgate Rabbit Farm, Lincolnshire, which was the target of a national demonstration on Saturday 26th September 2009.

Those who have pictures/video/stories from the demo or ongoing camapign can now publish them direct from an internet enabled phone to the Northern Indy…

On 23rd September Bradford Council Planning Committee made the descision to accept the proposal for demoltion of the iconic Odeon building in Bradford. Local people are outraged at the descision made through a simple majority of 4 to 3 councillors.

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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…

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.

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.

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.

The depressing sight of a huge hole in the city centre is too much for the people of Bradford.

The Westfield shopping centre development on Broadway in Bradford city centre has been officially put on hold until 2010 due to the recession.

Local people have taken to decorating the site with graffiti and starting a petition to Bradford Metropolitan District Council.