People went to the high court yesterday (4th March) and the eviction order was put on hold. This means we now have another court date in Blackwood sometime in the week starting 22nd March.

HOORAY!!! NO EVICTION JUST YET !!!!!

BUT - we still desperately need people down here. THIS ONE IS WINNABLE, but we need more people. If Costain can't get on with the work they'll have to give up (it's a PFI road) - so come and help stop work now!!!!!!!!

If you can't come down and support us then you can still support us from home:

Blackwood Bypass - Action Alert
- phone fax email web blockade on Blackwood sub-contractor -
Blackwood people have called on supporters to politely ask subcontractors working on the Blackwood Bypass in S.Wales to stop destroying the last woodlands in the valley. They suggest that the following company in particular may be open to contact. Please phone or visit them as often as you think necessary. If you contact them you may wish to point out that their machinery and staff are subject to a criminal investigation in regard to trashing bats, dormice and bat habitats - these are protected under the Wildlife Act, and to trash them is a criminal offence.

This contractor has hired a massive excavator with long reach - it is used to drag felled trees up or down steep embankments to the chipper. If this contractor pulls out then Costain and Caerphilly County Council will find it difficult to continue building this unwanted road...

Land & Water (massive excavator with megalong grab) Land & Water Services Ltd, Weston Yard, The Street, Albury, Guildford Surrey, GU5 9AF Tel: 01483 202733 or 203070 fax: Facsimile: 01483 209512 or 01483 202510    http://www.land-water.co.uk/   plant (at) land-water.co.uk   laws (at) land-water.co.uk   remedation (at) land-water.co.uk
map at:    http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=505375&Y=147815&A=Y&Z=3

other contractors are listed on:    http://www.roadalert.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=210&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

The Blackwood Bypass will destroy the last woodland in the area - much of it mature oak and beech, killing rare species such as dormice, bats and slowworms. It is being built to serve a bomb factory just down the road, and local people hate it... so if your thing is animal rights, peace, local communities or ecology then get on that phone, fax or email now....