Siân Berry has offered a heartfelt “thank you” to the voters of Hol-born and Covent Garden. In the London elections on May 1, 14% of voters in the ward supported the Green Party in the Assembly list vote.

The Green Party mayoral candidate, and Camden resident, said: “Their votes helped us avoid the Labour-Tory squeeze to keep our two Assembly seats. The Lib Dems, meanwhile, were vic-tims to the Ken/Boris surge and lost two seats. They now hold only one more seat than the Greens on the London Assembly.”

Jenny Jones and Darren Johnson were re-elected to City Hall after increasing their vote by 43,000 to hold a share of over 8% across London. They will now be among the leading voices op-posing Boris Johnson’s proposed abolition of the increased Con-gestion Charge for 4x4s and gas guzzlers, and removal of social housing targets, among other backward steps.

The Greens have since formed an agreement with Lib Dems and Labour in the Assembly to hold

Thank you, Holborn and Covent Garden!

Camden now has three green councillors

Green Party London mayoral candidate Siân Berry offers her thanks to Holborn and Covent Garden for its strong support for her, and for the Green Assembly members

MEP works with youth against crimeSix young students from South London visited the European Parliament recently to present their ideas for improving their local environment to discourage violence and anti-social behaviour.

The visit was part of a project sponsored by the Green MEP for London, Jean Lambert, through the London-based organisation Capacity Global. The schoolchil-dren met with their peers from across Europe, MEPs and repre-sentatives from the European Commission.

Jean commented: “We need to give young people the chance to

New Green councillor elected in HighgateFollowing a May 1 byelection called after the resignation of a Conservative councillor, the Green Party’s Alex Goodman was elected as a councillor in High-gate ward, lifting to three the number of Greens on Camden council. The Green Party won the byelection by more than 290 votes from Labour, with the Conservative candidate pushed into third place.

Alex, 30, is a barrister who has acted on behalf of the King’s Cross Railway Lands Group to argue for sufficient social hous-ing in the King’s Cross re-devel-opment. He has acted to ensure residents in Westminster will still receive housing benefit under a reformed system. He has also done voluntary work for the organisation Medical Justice and for the Habeas Corpus project.

Alex said: “I’m delighted to be in a position to be able to do things which are good for the area and people in Camden as a whole. I have said to people throughout the campaign that I’m only the third green councillor, so we’ll be in opposition. We can’t change the way the council is run, but what we can do is work against cuts in public services, stand up for the community and work on behalf of constituents.”

Fellow Green councillor Adrian Oliver said the results reflected the potential strength of the Green vote. “I think we can chal-lenge anywhere in the borough apart from maybe some of the Tory heartlands,” he said. “Our message goes down well and that has been borne out by the Highgate and London results.”The results: Alex Goodman (Green): 1,482; Michael Nicolaides (Labour): 1,185; Richard Merrin (Conservative): 1,180; Henry Potts (Lib Dem): 633.

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become fully integrated in deci-sion-making if we are going to tackle these issues, as they said, “Youths are part of the solution, not the problem.”

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Boris to account, including making Darren Johnson the deputy chair of the Assembly this year, and chair next year.

Siân added: “I also want to add my personal thanks to the voters of Holborn and Covent Garden. Nearly one in six gave me their first or second preferences, a degree of trust and interest in environmental and social issues that will help our Assembly mem-bers fight for vital issues under the Conservative mayor.”

During the election Siân

gained wide recognition, gaining endorsements from the Observer and Independent newspapers. The Independent said: “With her programme for a greener London, with more cycle-lanes, cheaper public transport, more small shops and eco-friendly housing, she has come across as a forward-looking politician, committed to a better quality of London life.” These are all policies that the Greens on the London Assembly will continue to push forward.

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Holborn & St Pancrasconstituency

Labour 12,029 39.9%

Cons 7,279 24.1%

Green 6,211 20.6%

LibDem 4,627 15.3%

Assembly list votes on May 1 across the wards making up the seat, on a four-party preferred basis (excluding postal votes)

Jean Lambert MEP with Lew-isham councillor Ute Michel and ShahrarAli, the London Greens’ top can-didates for next year’s European parliament elections

Green Party makes progress around the country

Green party membership is growing, in Camden, and nationally, but there’s a lot of work to do and everyone can help, whether you want to be an armchair member or get more involved. In the next Camden council elections in 2010, we’ll be working to elect Greens in Hol-born and Covent Garden and surrounding areas. In the parliamen-tary seats of Brighton Pavilion, being contested by Caroline Lucas MEP, in Lewisham Deptford and in Norwich South, as well as here in Holborn and St Pancras, Greens are surging par-ticularly strongly.

Please join online at www.greenparty.org.uk, or contact the number or address below for an application form. If you’re not quite ready to do that, but would like to help out with leafletting or other jobs, please contact southcamdengreenparty@ googlemail.com or 07967-417859, or fill in the form and send it to South Camden Green Party, 56 Walker House, NW1 1EP. Donations to “Camden Green Party” are also highly welcome. Unlike some parties, we don’t have billion-aire businesspeople lining up to give us money.

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Researchers at Imperial College London have rediscovered the ingenuity of the Victorians and Edwardians who fitted sash win-dows for effective air cooling.Now, however, few know how to use their windows to best effect.

A study of the mechanics of airflow showed that the best position for sash windows is with an equal gap at the top and bot-tom of the frame. Then, cooler air naturally flows into a room through the bottom gap, and this pushes warm air out through the top gap, creating a significant cooling effect.

Siân Berry is urging residents to try this: “The simple technique can make your home cooler with-out using unnecessary energy.”

The research also found the best strategy for summer is to leave sash windows in the middle position overnight, if security con-

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The Green Party is now the official opposition on the city council, with 13 seats. The Greens gained three seats from the Liberal Democrats, and to quote the local paper, “the Greens were bolstered by some thumping majorities in the wards they successfully defended”.

The Green vote was 3,000 votes higher than Labour’s across the Norwich South parliamen-tary constituency, establishing the Greens’ council leader, Adrian Ramsay, as the main challenger to former Home Secretary Charles Clarke at the next general election.

Wasting no time, the party has now succeeded in progress-ing plans for a 20mph speed limit on residential roads across the city, a move that has strong support from local residents but that had previously been blocked

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by Conservative county councillors. With limited funds for traffic calming measures to address safety issues on individual streets, Greens will be working to see quick implemen-tation of the plan to improve safety all around the city, particularly for pedestrians, cyclists and children.

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* In St Michaels ward in Liver-pool, the Green candidate Sarah Jennings joined John Coyne to form a Green group on the council.

* Veteran activist Margaret Wright won the Greens’ first-ever council seat in Cambridge.

* In Solihull, the Greens leapt from fourth to first in one election, with the Green’s Mike Sheridan defeating the Labour council leader.

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Camden Green Party has applauded the decision by Camden’s Primary Care Trust not to hand out-of-hours GP services to a private operator.

The PCT, after a campaign strongly supported by Green Party Cllr Maya de Souza, has

declared that the local co-operative that currently runs the service, Camidoc, will con-tinue to do so until at least 2010, rather than immediately put the service out to tender.

The decision followed a public outcry after the decision to hand

three doctors surgeries, including the Brunswick Medical Centre, to the American multinational UnitedHealth.

Maya said: “ We’d urge all pa-tients at the Brunswick Medical Centre, and the other affected centres, to monitor the service

they receive, and if they have any concerns they should express them loudly and publicly.

“The NHS is one of the great treasures of Britain, and we do not want to go down the route of Americanised private health care.”

Keep the NHS public: One small victory