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LATEST NEWS FROM BILSTON GLEN ANTI-BYPASS CAMP, SCOTLAND Greetings from us all in the Glen! We're all well and having another site - party on the 5th, 6th and 7th of September with again lots of great music ? OI POLLOI, SOCIAL INSECURITY, EAT YER GREENS and loads more. Also we want help with some projects on site. On the Saturday we have a meeting concerning us. The more people go the more it will show them. It will be a laugh! We will also gladly hold workshops in climbing, building etc. and would welcome any other workshops, spare tat and material, canvas etc. anyone can find or think of doing. We're also having a working open building weekend on the 26th, 27th and 28th of September, which will get us set for any possible autumn or winter eviction threats. So come on up tae bo0nny Scotland and meet us all. We have loads of room, great skips and materials all around and a great welcome for all. Hope to meet a load of you soon at one of our events. Take care, stay active and prosper! with love and respect from all at camp see ya soon Spring 03 UPDATE After a cold & snowy winter Bilston Wood is coming to life again. The trees are starting to bud, snowdrops are sprouting all around and the crawly things seem to be awakening. Having just had a massive spring clean of our surroundings, site and paths we've now erected a large kitchen/ free café with an infoshop attached. Our stage is built, and after an initial performance by the "Beltane Drummers" from Edinburgh we now hope to host more local bands and musicians. There are many new treehouses in progress and our walkway system is ever extending... We would welcome vistors to come for short/long/ permanent stays (warm dry friendly communal space is always available), or even just to pop by for a cup of tea and a read. Our wishlist is too long to print but mainly at the moment we need 10mm polyprop (please call us as we have a supplier who can send this to us direct as & when funds become available), all and any inner tubes (these are desperately required! - many thanks to "Freewhiling Cycles" in Penicuick!) and all forms of "defensive" materials. We would also welcome any literature that may be suitable for our expanding info-shop/free café... any & all anarchist press (worldwide), earth first! essays, campaign/ protest flyers &c &c... For more information &/or directions please call the site mobile : 07986 632429 Postal Address - Bilston Glen Anti Bypass Protest Site c/o The Autonomous Center 17 West Montgomery Place Edinburgh EH7 5HA By Bus/Car - Take the A701 (number 37/37a) Towards Penicuik & you'll come to the village of Bilston (8 miles south of Edinburgh). Just as you come into the village there is a metal gated footpath (opposite the large VW garage), go through this & down the path till you come to the bridge, & youll see us :) Don't be afeard of us crusties.. a warm welcome awaits!! --------------- Update, Fri, 6 Dec 2002 bilston glen is a wood that was due to be felled to make way for a new road nr edinboro. A few months ago a small number of us occupied the site with treehouses tunnels etc.The road is funded by local multinationals in the economic growth of edinboro (sainsbiry ikea costco kwicksave and vivisection and gm giants PPL therapeutics) we need support always in direct action. we need people polyprop rope climbing equipment cement tarps and candles. we have communal sleeping spaces and many ongoing projects for people to get involved with either on site or from afar. any benefit gigs propositions and ideas would be good. wehave an acoustic music poetry and story telling session at site every saturday email me or ring 07986632429 find_charis@yahoo.co.uk hope you can help us out cheers greg BILSTON GLEN ANTI-BYPASS CAMP, near Edinburgh, Scotland - URGENT!!! BIOTECH (famous for cloning sheep) has started the 1st private road construction in the U.K., a bypass to the A701, 8 miles south of Edinburgh, at Bilston. The local woodland is in the way & will be chopped down completely. Senseless destruction of our natural heritage for the sake of profit maximation. In june 2002 a camp was set up to make a visible & radical point that we oppose the plans of Biotech and the council. More people are urgently needed to survive that harsh, wet & stormy autumn(?...) and winter season. Just drop in for a weekend, some days, some weeks. Committed people to stay over the winter would be great. Postal Address: BILSTON GLEN ANTI-BYPASS CAMP c/o Autonomous Centre Edinburgh, 17 West Montgomery Place, Edinburgh, EH7 5HA and one can get more infos about the A701 Bypass plans at www.spokes.org.uk/naag, that´s the No Aligment Action Group, a local group which is opposing this road construction aswell, and we have good contacts to them... Directions: by car - take the A701 towards Pennicuik & you´ll get to Bilston. Search for a metal gate on your left (opposite VW garage), go through & follow the path by bus - take the 37A from E´burgh towards Pennicuik, get off at the 1st bus stop in Bilston Wishlist: tarpaulins, ropes - for climbing &lashing, blankets&duvets, torches/candles/lanterns, old tools, winter clothing, D Locks(etc.), building material, dog food, eviction stash foods, music (tapes, cds, people with instruments) - well anything else you can think of... thanx from us all! site-phone: 0798 6632429 , for more infomaterial e-mail bilston.glen@dhmail.net