Month: November 2024
Book launch picture
Paul Arnott asking me about my new book The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament at Wednesday’s launch in the Old Picture House. Thanks to all who braved the cold weather for a lively discussion! If you missed it but would like to get the book, it’s still available via the above link for £14 + postage (normal price £19.99) with the code EM30 at checkout.
Book launch this Wednesday 5 pm – all welcome
A reminder – my book launch is this Wednesday at 5 pm in the Old Picture House, Harbour Rd, Seaton. I’ll be in conversation with PAUL ARNOTT about The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which has just been published. The discussion could range far and wide – everything from today’s nuclear politics and Gaza to local protests about Seaton Hospital, as well as the history. Nothing is ruled out!
Come along, listen, and have your say – one or two people who are coming may share their own experiences of CND or other things they were doing back in the day.
A year since the Hospital campaign began – the NHS is still bypassing Seaton Hospital
Twelve months ago (3rd November 2023) we held one of the biggest protest meetings ever in the Seaton area: 400 people gathered to oppose the demolition of a wing of Seaton Hospital.
The campaign continued into the New Year, and our Steering Committee, elected at the Colyford meeting, has been negotiating with NHS Devon and NHS Property Services ever since. They’ve had our business plan to take over the wing for over four months, but the election and the wait for the new government’s Budget has delayed a response.
Meanwhile the empty space is unused. Yet Devon NHS – which complained about the cost of it – is still paying for facilities elsewhere in Seaton to carry out vaccinations that were previously done in the Hospital. We saw the shambles with the vaccination van in the Tesco car park on 7th October, and now it emerges that they are booking space in Marshlands.
It is beyond time that the NHS and Property services got their act together and put services in Seaton and the future of the Hospital on a secure footing.
Seaton & Colyton MATTERS 