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From: "SchNEWS"
To: "SchNEWS Subscribers"
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:17:53 +0000
Subject: SchNEWS 159, 20 March 1998
Reply-to: schnews@brighton.co.uk
BATTYE GOLF (Beal Valley, Oldham)
Oldham Council leader John Battye woke up on Valentine's Day to find
parents teaching their kids crazy golf on his front lawn. The fun
action was in response to the Council backtracking on promises to keep
dodgy stuff out of a land fill site. The Beal Valley, an important
wildlife site (home to birds on the endangered list), is scheduled to
become a golf course and the council, eager to save money on creating
nice little humps and valleys, hit upon using earth from the M66.
"I must reiterate... that no radio-active material will be brought onto
the site." Dir. Economic Devopment. Despite this assurance the Environment
Agency, the council and the waste company kept changing the rules and
now have admitted that they will allow 'special waste' at the site.
In a long list of dodgies are: cyanide, arsenic, asbestos and radioactive
cadnium and berium"...but only in safe levels" Oldham Council.
What? Battye is now sulking and won't talk to the local paper because they
didn't warn him about the protest beforehand.
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