Local people in the Pont Valley have been resisting an application by UK:Coal. On Tuesday the council will decide whether or not the opencast mine will be given the go ahead. The planning officer has recommended that the application be excepted, we need to stop this happening. The Pont Valley Network and opponents to the mine will be gathering to support their speakers and prevent the destruction …

The 2nd reading of the 500m Buffer Zone Bill takes place this Friday. This press release gives information about the reasons why this is an important Bill, provides information about a new Briefing Note (B6) that explains the Bill and provides info about how to get involved.

Cuts Café has had a very successful week with the workshops and entertainment. The squatted space has caused Hammerson to issue a statement about the regeneration / gentrification plans.

Quaker Woman Imprisoned over Anti-Trident Protests

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Sixty-seven year old Sylvia Boyes, a Quaker from Keighley, appeared on Thursday (3 Feb) at Bingley Magistrates Court. She was sentenced to 14 days in New Hall Prison for refusing to pay fines arising from a series of p…

Cuts Cafe, 10 Templar Place, LS2 7LW

Jan 31st - Febuary 6th

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We're busy setting up at the corner of Templar Place and Templar Street, near the market. Check out this page to find out how to get here.

Up to 4,000 protesters gathered peacefully in Manchester on Saturday 29th January to hear claims from union leaders that the Government was "betraying" young people.

National Union of Students President Aaron Porter was unable to speak at the rally of today’s NUS/UCU demonstration in Manchester, after hundreds of angry students chased him off the streets.

If proposed nuclear developments go ahead - the population of Cumbria will increase in a relatively short space of time by the tens of thousands. There have been lots of studies looking into why there are substantially more childhood cancers and blood disorders in the vicinity (up to 50Km+) around nuclear plants. Successive governments have dismissed those studies which point to radioactive em…

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Dog fatally injured during race at Owlerton Stadium

A group in Leicestershire has produced evidence about the current and possible future locations for opencast coal mining in England. In all it identifies 23 Current sites and 43 potential sites, including sites in Co Durham, Northumberland and Gateshead.The evidence is in the form of a two part review and it has been produced to support the arguments for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill which gets i…

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg looked shaken leaving Sheffield Town Hall this evening, as an impromptu demonstration chanted and hurled abuse.

Sound bites from Ant-cuts activists on Saturday 11th of December in Bradford.

Pedal MCR shall shortly be opening a bicycle community centre in Manchester where people can socialise and learn new skills.

Report from Halifax Sat 18th protest at Topshop...

All over the UK, people have been taking action against companies who have been exposed as tax dodgers.

At our school, Beckfoot in Bingley we decided more needed to be done about the cuts so we organised a silent protest in aim of Saving EMA. We got hundreds of students turning up and even some teachers showing their support.

All Allerdale and Copeland Borough Councillors have been sent a Christmas Card from Radiation Free Lakeland.

" The Ghost of Christmas Future?"

A large demonstration against government spending cuts has taken place in

the city of Liverpool.

The event, organised by the Public Sector Alliance and Merseyside Trades Union Council, began at the Metropolitan Cathedral.

Report from the Dec 11th anticuts action in Halifax...

David Cameron came to Leeds and was welcomed by around 100 protesters.  Just noon he drove into the Shine buisniess centre on Harehills Road to give a talk after being greeted with eggs, boos and graffiti from the night before.  Undercover police were deployed but the protest was low key and they never sprang into action.

Bradford Uni Vice Chancellor releases statement on the potential affect of education cuts on Bradford.

This protest was one of several taking place across the UK on Tuesday 30th November 2010.

Students take to the streets in Bradford; Trade unionists, pensioners and priests join forces to combat impending attack on education and public services.

A protest was held today (30th Nov) in Lancaster city centre by school students, adult college members and uni students. 

Around 300 were there. March took place and participants were roughed up by the police and directed during this. 

Protesters were kettled in Dalton Square with protesters who attempted to break out being roughed up and thrown back. Protesters were kettled again while attempting…

On the second national walk out in opposition to the government’s education policy, protesters have led an occupation of the central administrative offices at the University of Leeds. The Ziff Building, which contains the Vice Chancellor’s office, was briefly taken by students after a march through Leeds city centre.

Lollipop Ladies: ensuring your children get through education safely.

It was big, it was loud, and it was anarchic in the best possible way. Manchester students made themselves heard and seen all round the city centre on Wednesday when around 3,000 of them went on the march.

In Leeds today over one thousand students walked out to demonstrate against the Government spending cuts.  The demonstration was friendly with slogans such as, "Education is a right","Fib Dems" and "Fuck Capitalism not students".  The students were joined with school children from Allerton Grange, Ilkely Grammar, Lawnswood and more. There is also a video of the demo.

Other UK Demos: Manch…

Updates – West Yorkshire Hunt Saboteurs (Wednesday the 24th of November 2010)