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An independent group of individuals who share a love of The Wrekin
and a determination to see it preserved for the good of its
communities, landscape, wildlife and heritage.
Read more about Purpose, principles, activities and structure.
Some promotions about The Wrekin:
The Wrekin Hill
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This book is available for £12.99 from all good booksellers and the Halfway
House after the launch on 8th April 2007, or direct from Allan himself, in
which case send a Sterling cheque for £12.99 made payable to ALLAN FROST at
1 Buttermere Drive, Priorslee, Telford, Shropshire, TF2 9RE, United Kingdom.
Overseas buyers should send an International Money Order for that amount
(there is no additional charge for postage for this book).
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The book is available from all good booksellers and the Halfway House on
The Wrekin after the official launch at the end of October 2006 or direct
from Allan himself, in which case please send a Sterling cheque for £5.99
made payable to ALLAN FROST at 1 Buttermere Drive, Priorslee, Telford,
Shropshire, TF2 9RE, United Kingdom. If you live outside the United Kingdom,
send an International Money Order for £6.99 made payable to Allan Frost at
the above address.
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George Evans, the venerable chairman of All
Friends Around The Wrekin has a booklet out. Already on its second
reprint and the only book about The Wrekin, like ever!
Join George for a walk up and around The Wrekin, learn all the important landmarks and all the historical aspects of The Wrekin.
BTW: A fern ticket is the mythical permit to adventure on The Wrekin or
in its magical forest. Couples spotted leaving a dance at the Forest
Glen were asked. "Have you got your fern ticket?"
Wrekin Recipes;newWindow.focus())
Recipes taught to the pupils of Wrekin Road School in 1904 with
Emmie Teece's memories of the Wellington area in the years before
World War One.
£2.99 All proceeds to the Wrekin Appeal
Available from : Langlands Records, Wellington; Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury
Archive page for Sunday, 16 March 2008
Su, Mar 16, 2008Greetings All Friends, just to add an amendment to the Air Quality posting above. I have found some very interesting information on a Department of Health website, buried away in hundreds of pages.
This document is written as minutes of a COMEAP, commitee on the medical effects of air pollutants, 8 October 1999.
This group advises DoH, and consequently this must go downward to local Public Health, council,etc.
Item 4, deals with Communicating with the Public on the Health Effects of Air Pollutants,such as PM10, PM2.5,particulates.
Section 8 of item 4, states "It was suggested that it might be more useful to stress that people could help by changing their behaviour patterns to reduce pollution by changing their diet, for example to increase their intake of antioxidants which might oppose the effects of the pollutants,rather than saying that there was little one could do to prevent exposure other than moving, which might not in fact be beneficial."
Sections 10,11 12 15, also show similar re-wording for issues regarding health, with 21, and 22,showing we need to be VERY concerned as to what is being fed to us as "Normal baseline" , "Lesser effects" , "similar studies" etc.
Item 6 of the minutes cover "Do Particulates From Opencast Coal Mining Impair Health ?" COMEAP/9914.
Sections 24, 25, 27,28, cover some interesting points, and lead into Item 7, Technologies For reducing Emissions From Motor Vehicles.COMEAP/99/15.
Sections 33,34, also worth looking at carefully for clever downplay wording. Also, no -where have the emmisions from Heavy machinery been mentioned, ie the mega Bulldozers, Dumpers, site lorries, Excavators, which use a much more pollutative diesel to run on.
It may be worth noting, that the Doctor responsible for producing "The Newcastle Report", was present throughout this meeting, and mentioned as "In Attendance"
The Newcastle Report, is the line of defence, being undertaken by UK coal nationwide, in its attempts to obtain over 30 planning applications to extract coal by Opencast methods..Dr Van Steenis will be making clear many points of omission by these learned proffessors and Doctors of COMEAP,
Check this out yourselves, the website is as follows, http://www.advisorybodies.doh.gov.uk/comeap/minsagenda/nt8oct99.htm
Think Im getting the hang of this Internet thing now, did have some pointers towards this information from the Health Impact Assesment from Ffos-y Fran opencast mine, and the campaign to oppose the application going ahead there.
Again All friends, I urge you to sign the online petitions we have set up, at http://petitions .pm.gov.uk/NoOpencast
or, http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/AirQuality
Regards , Pat.
