Amongst the announcements by the Dept of Transport was an obvious seedling of doom for innocent gardeners in Reading. Not content with trying to evict our community garden, them miserable sods at the council want to shoo us off our much beloved (and fully paid up) allotment site so they can build a ROAD. Tescos are already invading our town and building over our hospitals and pushing out local grocers and now we are being prevented from cultivating our organic veg.

The first seeds of resistance are being sown in the town and a website has sprouted

 http://www.cowlane.org.uk

WARNING: this development will also affect the festival site. So all you young folk who enjoy a good bop next to our courgettes, join the resistance or the party will stop. We lost WOMAD last year, so don't think this won't happen to you!