The campaign to save one of the few open air Lido pools in the Country at Portishead has been won! The result means that the Portishead Pool Community Trust have 12 months to make the pool work, with a 40 year lease promised by North Somerset Council if it can be shown to be managed successfully. Congratualtions should go out to Portishead Pool Community Trust as well as all the people who have turned out to protect the pool. Now we must all turn out again to use it as soon as it opens at the end of May.

HOLA or 'Hands off Long Ashton' and DRAG or 'Dundry Residents Action Group' along with 100 environment activists and residents, campaigned at a demonstration in Bristol on Saturday the 7th of March. The prospect of 9000 new houses being built on the green belt is worrying, and its certainly not free, fair or green. "On thing is for certain when the green belt is gone it is gone, the Lib Dems Million Door survey of towns and villages is in North Somerset revealing how much town dwellers and villagers alike value their green spaces. New building needs to be kept to brown field sites" says Brian Mathew, North Somerset's next MP.