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Elections 2009
Local Elections
Thursday 4th June

A record number of Green Party candidates are to contest the County Council elections in the West Midlands this year. Candidate numbers have TREBLED since the last County elections in 2005. The dramatic rise in Greens contesting seats is down to increased membership and members wanting to stand for election to give people an opportunity to say no to the BNP and yes to positive politics with solutions to today's problems.

Overall, 144 candidates will contest seats in the region compared to 47 in 2005, the last comparable set of elections. Every single District in the region will have Green Party candidates standing for the County Council (or Unitary Council in the case of Shropshire), and in many cases, it will be the first time a Green candidate is running for election in the area.

If you want to support the Green Party in preparation for the elections, get in touch with Chris Williams by emailing westmidlands@greenparty.org.uk.
Shropshire Local Election Candidates 2009
Belle Vue
Hayley Farr
Bishop's Castle
Jacqui Morrish
Castlefields and Ditherington
Toby Green
Church Stretton & Craven Arms (2 seats)
Helen Byrne and David Gibbon
Ludlow North
Imogen Herford
Minsterley
Nancy Davies
Oswestry South
Owen Thomas
Quarry & Coton Hill
Huw Peach
Ruyton & Baschurch
Sue Boulding
The Meres
Steve Boulding
Underdale
Alan Whittaker
Whitchurch South
Cllr Ruth Leach
Everyone in the West Midlands region will be able to vote Green in 2009 at the European elections, which will take place on the same day as the local elections...
Euro Elections
Felicity Norman is the lead Green Party candidate for the West Midlands Region for the European Elections.

Felicity Norman has a wealth of experience through travelling widely, living and working in many different parts of the world. Her work has included agriculture and teaching. She is married with two daughters and lives with her family on a smallholding in Herefordshire, where she teaches part time.

Felicity has worked with a number of voluntary organisations, including Voluntary Action, Citizens Advice Bureau and Shopmobility, where she has been a trustee for many years. She is also a director at the Robert Owen Society, a secondary school governor, and organises Leominster Apple Fair which celebrates the huge variety of different apples, and encourages support for local food and its producers and retailers. She is a supporter of several peace and justice, and environmental campaigning organisations.

Felicity has been an active member of the Green Party for 25 years, serving on different committees at both local and national level and is a former agriculture spokesperson for the party. She has been a candidate in local, national and European elections. She was twice elected to Leominster District Council, serving for seven years before the current Unitary Authority took over. Earlier this year, Felicity was selected, with a huge majority, as the Green Party's Lead Candidate in the West Midlands for the 2009 European Elections.

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Why vote Green in Local, General and Euro Elections?
Only the Green Party is serious about climate change. We want all new building projects to make their own renewable energy; in 5 years 30% of the energy used in public buildings to be from renewable sources council vehicles to make the maximum use of alternative fuels such as biodiesel private householders over 60 to get free draught-proofing, loft insulation and cavity wall insulation, making a better quality of life for older people as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Green Party supports local services and local businesses and gives more of a say to local people. Keep the swimming pool in the town centre. Rather than build a new one out of town, spend the money on improving the one we have Promote the wonderful resource of the indoor market. Advertise it at street level, put it on the town's signposts and put in an escalator to make it easier for everyone to get in and out make sure the council buys from local suppliers oppose out-of town developments and new supermarkets.
Greens would make sure the council provides the affordable housing it promised. This council's record on housing is shameful and they are running out of excuses. If there is space for any number of executive homes and luxury apartments then there is space for affordable homes for local people. Greens would make sure the promised number of homes are built, with high energy-efficiency standards so that fuel bills are kept down. All new developments to include 40% affordable housing. "Affordable" is to be based on the real incomes earned by people in low-paid jobs. Not everyone wants to buy and so there should be homes to rent as well as support for people who would like to build their own energy-efficient homes.
Greens would review all big capital projects. The council is not a financial institution with responsibility to its shareholders. It is responsible to us, the residents. It should stop its obsession with big property deals and instead find ways of using important buildings such as Rowley's House and the Flaxmill for public benefit.
Green policies would make it easier to recycle. We need to produce less waste and recycle more, so that less goes to landfill and so that we avoid any need to build an incinerator to get rid of our waste. Greens would introduce a collection for kitchen waste and give residents free compost bins. By 2010 we would charge residents for collecting waste to dispose of; and reduce the council tax by the amount that is currently spent on waste.
The Green Party would introduce secure pedestrian corridors linking all neighbourhoods to Shrewsbury town centre. We would provide safe walkways, with good crossing facilities, that would make Shrewsbury a safer place for pedestrians and encourage more people to leave their cars at home.
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