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Stirk House Hotel, Lancashire, knowingly hosts neo-Nazi conference

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Over the weekend, fascist party Patriotic Alternative held a conference at the Stirk House Hotel[efn_note]CADDY, Paul – Director KAY, Helen Elizabeth – Director KAY, Christopher Michael Blunn – Secretary Correspondence address: Stirk House, Hotel & Restaurant, Gisburn, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 4LJ https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06687742/officers[/efn_note] in Lancashire BB7 4LJ. The hotel was warned about the booking by anti-fascist

Lancashire: Activists Perform Lock-on at Preston New Road Fracking Site

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In the early hours on Friday anti-fracking campaigners locked themselves onto the entrance of the Preston New Road fracking site in Lancashire. The well co-ordinated action was executed amid double security and the police present at the site at around 5am. Despite that activists managed to successfully block the site for hours, with the second lock-

Critical Mass sets off for Rolling Resistance

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At the time of writing a large intrepid band of Critical Mass cyclists are partway through their day-long journey to lend support to anti-fracking protectors on Preston New Road, Lancashire. Beginning in central Manchester, the crew’s 45-mile journey to join Reclaim the Power‘s month-long Rolling Resistance campaign against Cuadrilla is winding its way through local

Second day of violence as Cuadrilla lashes out at anti-fracking protectors

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As a blockade against fracking in Lancashire continues to block roads and hinder operations the gloves seem to have come off from gas mining firm Cuadrilla, with its security team being accused of attacking protectors for the second day running. Early reports from today’s anti-fracking protests at Preston New Road, Lancashire, suggesting that private security guards are injuring people who

Swing sets and lock-ons: Fracking direct actions are kicking off

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After a solid first day of blockading fracking suppliers at Carnforth in Lancashire with swings, a second eight-person lock-on at Preston New Road is keeping up the pressure on energy industry efforts to bring the dangerous and unpopular gas extraction method into mass production. The lock-on (pictured above) is aimed at disrupting efforts from frackers Caudrilla to build

Reclaim the Power: Cuadrilla’s assumption of victory is sheer arrogance

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Pic: Gary Knight/CC

Among the many attempted fracking projects being pushed forward in Britain this year, Preston New Road has been a site of particularly strong resistance. Site owner Cuadrilla, run by a former BP executive and backed by private equity giant Riverstone Holdings, has repeatedly tried to railroad communities into accepting the imposition of dangerous gas mining