Ok so it's not perfect, but actually the point of the protest is articulated very well and they have a large number of fairly sensible quotes from people that get the protests message accross in a positive light. It's just a shame they imply that there were 'violent protests' rather than people reacting in self-defense to a police invasion of the site.

Well done, you've finally got national UK BBC coverage and by Julian Joyve too. Julian must be delighted, he doesn't often get his copy named and so prominently displayed. He of course covered the Heathrow camp but has mostly since then been doing fluffly minor royalty stories and plot spoilers for crap movies (the Golden Compass).

So let ye take stock and not be so dismayed.

Yesterday the journalists of the local Kent phylum expressed their amazement and quoted neighbours of the camp on their blog as being equally amazed that the climate camp wasn't making national news. Sure - it was getting to the pages of BBC Kent but not as far as St- Mary Meade or the dark satanic mills of middle on its uppers England. Yet a missing snake story had been counted newsworthy enough for its little bit of fame and infamy. The climate camp is now a story. OK - you're not exactly the type of people who are being held up as role-models for youth, but also it is very unlikely that Ninja mutants from Chatham are going to horde it through your camp un-noticed this side of the weekend. If it's one thing we all know now - it is you don't do oriental weaponry.

I'd be very pleased if I were ye. well done olé! your'e topping thousand on attendence, that's lots of vegan stew, had less than a score of arrests, no weapons found on site - improvised a camp without basic tools and no deaths through misadventure, no tear gas, no tasers, just the incessant buzzzing of a helicopter.

Or is it that you would prefer in depth BBC coverage of the sympathetic variety?
Kill your campaign with love and cuddles?

Now work on your media manipulation & make the weekend a story worthy of being told to the baby hobbits of the future.

Radio 4 (er...yes, sorry) is asking people to send in their diary entries for the 9th August. (something to do with George Orwell, ironically) Thought it might be great if masses of people send in their accounts of the big day of action on the 9th - warts and all - and see just how many people the BBC can actually ignore.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2008/08/mark_the_moment_saturday_9_aug.shtml