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On Friday April 29th - royal wedding day - Facebook deleted around 50 profiles belonging to political groups, most of them involved in anti-cuts activity. Among the groups affected was Notts Uncut. I interviewed one of the group to find out exactly what happened.

On Friday April 29th - royal wedding day - Facebook deleted around 50 profiles belonging to political groups, most of them involved in anti-cuts activity. Among the groups affected was Notts Uncut.

The maze, Mansfield Road, Nottingham.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham NG7 6HX

Directions: http://www.veggies.org.uk/sumac/map.html

"Google has turned the boys in blue red with rage by refusing to hand over private data except by court order."

This might be something of an overstatement, but it is significant that police in Derbyshire think they have a right to private data held by Google without a court order (which they would presumably get with little difficulty).

It is good to see Google standing up to the police, althou…

From Mansfield blog. http://mutinyinmansfield.wordpress.com/

The latest piece concentrates on the Digital Economy Act.

The Digital Economy. The government's vision of the internet's future. This new legislation has been controversial from the outset. Lobbied for by the Recording Industry in an effort to thwart file-sharing, the Digital Economy Act has far reaching implications.

In particular, …

This provides a link to an article which reviews the increasing use of Biomass in UK Electricity Production

Ratcliffe Trial suspended for three days and The Power Station continues to contribute emissions.

NOTTINGHAM TICKETS SOLD OUT - December 1

Join the National Climate March in London

Coach leaves Salutation at 8:00am

Tickets £10 (waged) £6 (student/unwaged)

18 months after 114 people were initially arrested at the Iona School in Sneinton, 20 climate change activists have begun a month-long trial today. They were originally arrested on 13th April 2009.



On Monday 22 November 2010, they have appeared to answer charge at Nottingham Crown Court: that they conspired together to cause aggrevated trespass at the Radcliffe Power Station. The trial is expected …

SUMAC Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham NG7 6HX.

One of the things that most disturbs friends from other countries when they first arrive in Britain is the omnipresence of CCTV. Whilst in Europe people are used to seeing cameras at major stations and airports and on government buildings and banks, they are nothing like as prevalent as the cameras we have. And they are certainly never stationed in residential neighbourhoods (or the toilets of jun…