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SW TAR managed a fringe meeting on the 18th March 2006 at the Weston - Super - Mare, Labour Party South West Conference. The expert panel was comprised of -
Cate Le Grice Mack MBE (Chair).
Regional Assembly Member, Social, Economic & Environmental Partners. Chair, SW TAR.
Jeremy Birch.
Campaigner, Stop Bristol Airport Expansion.
http://www.nobristolairportexpansion.co.uk
Mike Birkin.
Regional Campaigns, Friends of the Earth South West.
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/local_groups_and_campaigns
Julian Crow.
General Manager, West of England, First Great Western.
http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk
Chris Hilditch.
Managing Director, Stagecoach Devon.
http://www.stagecoach.com
You may download the papers by clicking here 20060318_papers.pdf - this is a large Adobe Acrobat file (1182kb).
You may download a photograph of the panel with caption by clicking here photo_and_caption_ai.pdf - this is a very large Adobe Acrobat file (4336kb).
A vigorous "Save our Train Service" campaign is being conducted in the south west http://www.saveourtrainservice.org.uk (external link).
On Sunday 19th March, the Labour Party South West unanimously carried a pro environmental transport resolution. A copy is available here SERA_resolution-06_final.doc (Microsoft Word document 22kb).
For the associated press release - Press release - Click here.