thanks a lot for posting this - even though there's not much i can do to help, im really interested to know whats going on over there in cambridge and im sure a lot of other people are too. good luck with the emergency tat disposal! fuck tesco!

This is pure malice on the part of Tescos, and smacks of them being BAD LOSERS!!

I repeat, BAD LOSERS!!

SHAME ON YOU, TESCOS SCUM!!

You'll NEVER be welcome on Mill Road, so don't even bother appealing last night's decision, as you're UNappealing to locals, especially after evicting a COMMUNITY CENTRE THAT LOCAL PEOPLE NEED!!

Remind me to never go in your stupid bland union busting, ecopillaging shops again.

As for the MRSC crew, find another venue ASAP and KEEP GOING, because we need autonomous community run spaces now more than ever, seeing as the City Council don't seem to have the wit or will to provide us with decent community spaces (prove me wrong if you read this, councillors), despite everyone being financially crippled with ever higher Council Tax bills, which are squandered on CCTV.

BOYCOTT TESCOS!!

YOU'RE BAD LOSERS TESCOS!!

So, sue me for speaking the truth.

I agree with dandy... was away but otherwise would've come and helped... I hope it went ok.

The Centre's portrayal of its eviction is, of course, biased in its own favour. In the interests of balance, another view is that most people on Mill Road knew that the Centre's shelf-life would be limited, and are actually relieved to see it go.

The amount of vagrants on Mill Road since the Centre arrived increased exponentially. Word on the street was out that it was available, then the dropouts came. The Objector received a distressing personal report from a friend - a middle-aged woman - who found herself groped and propositioned outside the doors of the Centre by a slurry-speeched man who told her that he'd just got out of prison for beating up policemen. She got away quickly, after telling him in no uncertain terms to leave her alone.

And what about the young, blonde, dreadlocked girl witnessed outside the Centre of a weekday morning, can of Special Brew in hand, f-ing and blinding at top volume about some 'b-stard' who'd done something to offend her? Before the Centre she'd never been seen before locally. Mill Road residents know the drinking schools in the area.

The Centre's professional-looking website, Indymedia reports and right-on, utopian fluffiness about being a place for the 'whole community' doesn't stand up when exposed to daylight.

It was a squat for the disenfranchised and addicted, attracting people to Mill Road who not only had no genuine emotional or financial investment in being there, but actually made it feel unsafe.

Mill Road residents definitely DO NOT want Tesco at the Wilco site. That's why they've been campaigning professionally and fighting so hard at the planning meetings to get shot of the corporate giant once and for all. The Mill Road Social Centre has done nothing to advance the 'No' campaign - it actively states that it is completely unconnected to it.

Those commenting on an anti-Tesco basis here are misguided.

The Centre's portrayal of its eviction is, of course, biased in its own favour. In the interests of balance, another view is that most people on Mill Road knew that the Centre's shelf-life would be limited, and are actually relieved to see it go.

The amount of vagrants on Mill Road since the Centre arrived increased exponentially. Word on the street was out that it was available, then the dropouts came. The Objector received a distressing personal report from a friend - a middle-aged woman - who found herself groped and propositioned outside the doors of the Centre by a slurry-speeched man who told her that he'd just got out of prison for beating up policemen. She got away quickly, after telling him in no uncertain terms to leave her alone.

And what about the young, blonde, dreadlocked girl witnessed outside the Centre of a weekday morning, can of Special Brew in hand, f-ing and blinding at top volume about some 'b-stard' who'd done something to offend her? Before the Centre she'd never been seen before locally. Mill Road residents know the drinking schools in the area.

The Centre's professional-looking website, Indymedia reports and right-on, utopian fluffiness about being a place for the 'whole community' doesn't stand up when exposed to daylight.

It was a squat for the disenfranchised and addicted, attracting people to Mill Road who not only had no genuine emotional or financial investment in being there, but actually made it feel unsafe.

Mill Road residents definitely DO NOT want Tesco at the Wilco site. That's why they've been campaigning professionally and fighting so hard at the planning meetings to get shot of the corporate giant once and for all. The Mill Road Social Centre has done nothing to advance the 'No' campaign - it actively states that it is completely unconnected to it.

Those commenting on an anti-Tesco basis here are misguided.