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Want to find out what’s going on in Wrexham for animals, people and the environment?

Get yerselves down to the Vic on February 9

Wrexham Veggies, along with a load of other campaigning groups in the Wrexham area, is holding an

• Find out about the benefits of vegetarian and vegan diets
• Sample our vegan refreshments
• Browse at stalls run by local groups working on: animal rights and animal sanctuaries; vegetarianism; peace and justice; alternative news; local campaigns; environmental issues
• Help yourself to anything you like from the free shop - shoplifters will NOT be prosecuted! - or bring along something you no longer need to donate to the shop
• See what’s going on; meet like-minded people; get involved!

If this event is successful, we plan to make it a regular thing.

So come along on the 9th - bring your friends and family - tell everyone you know.

More information from Wrexham Veggies: info@wrexhamveg.org Tel: 07904 375178

Website: www.wrexhamveg.org

With 15 British sailors still detained in Iran, it’s worth reading what Craig Murray has to say on the matter to balance the moral outrage of the British government and media.

No doubt at all that the sailors are being used as pawns, but at least as much by Britain and the US - who are, we must remember, illegally occupying Iraq - as by the Iranians.

As for all that nuclear hypocrisy being spouted in relation to Iran’s Uranium enrichment programme, our own home-grown Uranium enrichment facility is just up the road in Capenhurst, near Ellesmere Port.

This report from the BBC rather smugly states that "Nations which are signatories to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have the ‘inalienable right’ to make nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes, through enriching uranium or separating plutonium."

All very well, except our Uranium is not only used for peaceful purposes, and we are in breach of the NPT in any case because we haven’t made any attempts to get rid of our nuclear weapons.   The result of exercising this ‘inalienable right’ is that Uranium from Capenhurst is discharged with the blessing of the authorities into the local Rivacre brook which runs close to schools and houses… the childhood leukaemia rate is four times the national average close to the site.  The Uranium is used in the Trident nuclear weapons programme; it ends up in Uranium weaponry which has polluted forever areas of the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq; the fallout from this pollution ends up all over the place including back here in the UK; Uranium weapons have contaminated parts of Scotland where they have been tested; surplus uranium is dumped illegally in Russia.