Half snowman, half machine

Monster snow and music event at Xscape Indoor Snow Arena, Milton Keynes. Lesley Mckenna and friends have built a big half pipe and will be demoing and competing in snowboardy type things. But that's not all, Zane Lowe is hosting the music side of it, and he LOVES Goldie Lookin'Chain... There will be a festival sized stage with all the required lights and action, placed upon the snow at the bottom of the 1/2 pipe. Top bands will play snow-sets throughout the day plus Zane himself will DJ inbetween the bands. The line-up to date includes Goldie Lookin' Chain, Million Dead, Kill Kenada, Atmosphere, The Holiday Plan, Vinyl Dialect and Jetplane Landing.

Not sure you can get tickets via popex, but you can here: www.hadenoughofpop.com/popatpop/ and you can win them too...

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Alright, Mr Gordon Brown is listening to me...

Another petition, regarding a tax on plastic bags. With the news that M&S are stopping giving them away, things are rollling in a greener direction. With this, and the recent sunday newspaper story that Brucie probably WILL be getting his knighthood soon, I'm feeling like some sort of government advisor right now. Next stop; abolition of stamp duty in Canterbury, a reduction in ale duty, and a prohibitive tax on dairy products.

Thank you for signing the e-petition about the usage of plastic bags.

As you may have seen from recent media reports, this is a subject that the Prime Minister feels strongly about. As he said last year, our eventual aim should be to eliminate single-use carrier bags altogether. Plastic bags are the most easily reducible form of waste, cutting them out of our lives is one of the most straightforward ways we can all do something directly to improve our environment, reduce pollution and stop their harm to wildlife.

We want people to refuse disposable bags in shops, but if they do accept them, to reuse and eventually recycle them. If we all adopted this approach as a nation we could cut sharply the 13 billion plastic bags, or ten a week for the typical household, which are used and wasted every year.

But we can go further than this. As the Prime Minister has said, if Government compulsion is needed to make the change, we will take the necessary steps. The Government does not take such steps lightly but the damage that single-use plastic bags inflict on the environment is such that strong action must be taken. We have not decided on what precise scheme would work best - we will look at the experiences of other countries around the world in deciding how to approach the problem.The important thing is to come up with a scheme that will be of most benefit, most quickly. Ideally at the same time to secure funds for organisations that help protect our environment.

The actions of millions of British people will send a message right across the world that - as with light bulbs, and standby settings - we can address the danger to our planet. Through the Climate Change Bill, our Act on CO2 campaign, and a new impetus for renewable energy, we are leading the way.

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It's Not Easy Being Green

I quite enjoyed this programme last night, if you have not seen it here's a book of it, it's about a family who obviously have a shitload of money becoming an eco commune. Generally, posh hippies make me want to kick the telly in, but this was quite good. The father Dick Strawbridge is a veteran of smashing things up shows like Scrapheap Challenge. The wife is proper hippy-dippy and quite rubbish, but the aims of the family / show are good, yesterday they made an outdoor solar shower and a storage heater for the greenhouse out of old bottles. Tres Stig of the Dump. I can't help having the feeling that as soon as the cameras are off they're back racing their 4x4s around the town centre, but still, it was nice.

Also nice was the programme on before it about the uber-posh types in the big house who were struggling to make ends meet. Hmm, I don't have much to say that's not about telly today.

Local news, well local to family and friends but not me, a one legged Fareham pensioner led police on a 24 mile low speed chase:

Sandra Siddle, of Miller Drive, Fareham, Hants, was yesterday found guilty by a jury at Portsmouth Crown Court of dangerous driving.

The trial heard that during the chase on March 24 last year, Siddle was followed by several police cars and a police spotter plane as she ran through red lights, overtook cars on dangerous bends and mounted the kerb.

She even continued despite her front two tyres being punctured by a police stinger.

The pursuit only came to a stop when Siddle lost control and crashed into a lamppost on the A32 near Chawton, rolled over and burst into flames, the court heard.

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