September 2013

Today 40 Greenpeace activists in Germany chained themselves to a railway line to block coal shipments to one of Europe’s most polluting power plants. The plant is run by the Swedish state-owned energy giant, Vattenfall, burning brown-coal (or Lignite), the most polluting way to generate energy. Gregor Kessler reports from the railway line in Lausitz, where activists from have been chained since three this morning.

Coaches have been arranged from Bristol, Brighton, Oxford and Canterbury to bring you to London for Aurora's parade on 15 September and take you back to your destination. 

To secure a place on one of these services, please book your seat by 5pm Wednesday 11 September. 

To book, click on the relevant link below: 

Brighton - click here. 

Pick up from Brighton train station at 9.30am

Arriving to work this morning, staff at Lancashire County Council will find a fracking rig drilling outside County Hall in Preston. It's a fake fracking outfit - the same Frack & Go that struck in George Osborne's constituency ealier this year - but it gives a small taste of what being next door to a drilling operation is like.

It's particularly timely as the council planning committee will be deciding soon on a new application from Cuadrilla, the same company that has attracted huge protests in Sussex.