From BBC news comes the following:
All petrol and diesel which is sold at UK pumps now has to include at least 2.5% biofuels.
These renewable fuels, made from crops such as sugar cane or maize, have been added to fuel sold around the country.
I read this almost straight after reading George Monbiot’s piece in today’s Guardian.
A world going mad …
from the Independent:
Environmental campaigners seeking to stage a protest at Heathrow airport this summer claimed a huge and symbolic victory yesterday after a High Court judge massively scaled back the terms of an injunction sought against them.
and
Meanwhile, in a separate victory for free speech, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, dismissed an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions that could have seen the Parliament Square anti-war protester Brian Haw restricted in his right to protest.
This doesn’t happen nearly often enough, of course, but we can celebrate it nonetheless.
and bad, bad news for the Government, who have had their wrists severely slapped by the Court of Appeal. I suggest the Chagosians get a move on, before Margaret Bikkit petitions the Law Lords directly.
more from the Indy here.
now remind me again why we need an independent judiciary … (Department of Justice, indeed [spit]).
two envelopes in the post from North Somerset County Council this morning, informing me that my nomination papers to stand for NSCC in Easton-in-Gordano, and for Parish Council here in Long Ashton, are valid.
oh good. I think.
who *cares* whether or not David Cameron smoked cannabis when he was at school?
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to scrap the proposed introduction of ID cards”.
sign here to add your name to a petition on the Downing Street web site. 433 names as I sign.
please pass it on.
Mr Reid said that “”move away from the traditional view that justice has to involve going to court”.”
and towards a police state, presumably. More from the Guardian here.