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20 February 2024 / 27 May 2024 by Peter
Local Green Party members join community-driven campaign opposing proposals by Network Rail to close key footpath in South Milford.
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20 July 2023 / 27 May 2024 by Peter
Arnold Warneken gives his thoughts on Election Day. #VoteWarneken
13 July 2023 / 27 May 2024 by Peter
The proposed closure of the ticket office at Selby Station is completely unacceptable and discriminatory. We unpick why.
12 April 2023 / 27 May 2024 by Peter
Despite acknowledging the urgency of climate change and the potential consequences of inaction, NY’s Climate Change Strategy lacks ambition and accountability in critical areas.
21 February 2023 / 9 April 2023 by Tom
Selby & District Green Party, along with Selby and Hull Friends of the Earth groups, recently met with Reverend Leo Woodberry from South Carolina, who travelled to Yorkshire to see the Drax power plant for himself. Reverend Woodberry’s visit was part of his UK campaign to call on the Department for Business, Energy and Industry […]
26 January 2023 / 8 February 2023 by Tom
Bronwen Mitchell (aged 11) a schoolgirl from Kellington near Goole, has written to Rishi Sunak to express her concern about the climate crisis – and it would seem she has a better handle on the urgency of the situation than Graham Stuart (aged 60) MP for Beverley and Holderness and Minister of State for Climate. […]
28 November 2022 / 27 May 2024 by Tom
Being the Green Party we are, of course, interested in sustainability, renewables, and the climate crisis. So, being the Selby Green Party, you might think we would be very supportive of Drax with its claims to be world-leading in the biomass industry and key to making our region the first carbon-negative region in the UK. […]
9 September 2021 / 27 May 2024 by Tom
Selby Green Party was shocked to see video footage of Nigel Adams MP swearing at a member of public in London yesterday. Steve Bray, known for his long campaign to stop Brexit, had asked Mr Adams in the street about the progress of the Health & Social Care Bill being debated in the House of […]
1 March 2021 / 5 November 2022 by Tom
Selby Green Party is raising concerns about roadside paths that have fallen into disrepair, and rights of way that risk being lost forever from public access maps. Green Party members in the Selby area have taken a lead in supporting the ‘Walkshire’ [1] campaign in encouraging local authorities to make existing roadside paths safe and accessible to all. A member of Selby […]
26 October 2020 / 5 November 2022 by Tom
A petition has been launched by an alliance of pro-EU groups asking MPs to urgently commit to a pledge for a Real Deal with the EU. The UK has left the European Union and now we need to secure our future relations with Europe so that we “prosper mightily” (to use the Prime Minister’s words) […]
