Academy patnership needs bulwark against the campaign to stop it being built!!!!

The article in icwales says..."The St Athan Communications Working Group states on its website – which is hosted by the Metrix consortium of companies that will deliver the project – there is a need to create a “bulwark” to promote their plans “when pitted against the ‘Campaign to stop the St Athan academy from being built’ etc”. However you can't access the website...although it is sponsered by the welsh assembly and the vale of glamorgan endorced with their logos ..not even the exciting Defence Training Academy and the St Athan Partnership newsletter..

Plaid MEP defends anti-St Athan stance
ic Wales, United Kingdom - 18 Nov 2007
In her role as chair of CND Cymru she is involved in a group which has been founded to oppose the facility, to be built at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan. Supporters of the academy are preparing to counter this campaign. The St Athan Communications ...

Shall we try again...must be that bulwark!!
Defence Training Academy and the St Athan Partnership newsletter

No2 Road South from Junction 34 for Military Academy

New Road to the airport?
Now what is this about - improve access for who? The Metrix Consortium? Improved roads required for the Academy? How much will this cost us?

This story in Jan is now followed up by a very quiet consultation on the road to the airport - an environmental big issue - there should also be a planning consultation soon. £100m transport boost on back of St Athan Jan 30 2007 ROADS and railways in South Wales could be in line for a £100m upgrade in the wake of the decision to build a massive military academy to St Athan....
The basic problem is that St Athan is somewhat remote from main road and rail arteries. This

was not a major obstacle during its relatively minor role as an RAF base, but the new academy will train 10,000 recruits from across the UK.
Although living on campus, they will need to travel to and from St Athan. Other workers will live off-site and commute to the academy, with 1,500 ancillary jobs predicted in the area.
The new facility will also need good freight access, for supply of food - including 600,000 loaves of bread each year - as well as any military hardware required.

Building a road south from Junction 34 may offer the best chance for improving road access in time for the academy's full opening in 2012. With no houses in the way, the planning process could be relatively straightforward - and the new route could partly use the existing A4226 road.

St Athan academy road links plan thrown into doubt Feb 16 2007 Peter Collins, South Wales Echo

Improving access to Cardiff International AirportFollowing the public exhibitions held in early October 2007 the Welsh Assembly Government has decided to hold two additional exhibitions.

Improving Access to Cardiff International Airport
http://new.wales.gov.uk/topics/transport/roads/NewRoads3/ImprovingAccessToCardiffAirport/?lang=en

Newsletter No.1 – Autumn 2007 2007 Public Exhibition

Board 1 = Welcome Board
Board 2 = Previous Studies

Board 3 = Trunk Road Forward Programme
Board 4 = Recent Announcements
Board 5 = Context Plan
Board 6 = Aerial Photograph – M4 south to A48
Board 7 = Aerial Photograph – A48 south to coast
Board 8 = Environment
Board 9 = Transport
Board 10 = Issues Identified so Far
Board 11 = Potential Options
Board 12 = Thank you and What Happens Next

Public Exhibition Comment Form

St Athan Development Brief -

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML St Athan Development Brief. July 2006. 2. Planning Policy Context. 2.1 National Context. The Wales Spatial Plan sets out the Welsh Assembly Government’s ... www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/files/Living/Planning/Policy/Development/St_Athan_Development_Brief.pdf - Similar pages

Vale of Glamorgan - Development Briefs -

The St. Athan Development Brief was approved by Council in July 2006. ... St. Athan Development Brief (0.7MB); Site Location Plan (4MB); Site Plan (2.2MB) ... www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/living_menu/planning/planning_policy/development_briefs.aspx - 29k - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk ]

Not so many jobs at St Athan! Gioing down , down, down!

How many jobs at St Athan? 1,100 is no where near 5,000 jobs promised and that Rhodri Morgan was drinking champagne to celebrate!

The number of jobs in scope of package 1 has dropped from 1500 to 1100. These 400 posts are those not directly linked to training delivery.

Time for some honesty from our politicans!!

Improving access to the Airport for Metrix - arms dealers

Improving access to Cardiff International Airport

Following the public exhibitions held in early October 2007 the Welsh Assembly Government has decided to hold two additional exhibitions.

The exhibitions are part of an ongoing study, which is investigating options for improving transport access to the airport and possible improvements at Culverhouse Cross.

Friday, 30 November10 am to 8 pm
Wenvoe Community Centre Old Port Road, Wenvoe, CF5 6AL

Saturday, 1 December 10 am to 5 pmCowbridge Leisure CentreThe Bear Field,Cowbridge, CF71 7DA Please note these two exhibitions are a repeat of those held in October and won't include any new material.

Shouldn't the WAG and Rhrodri Morgan consult more widely - surely there should be a exhibit in Cardiff?

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Taking aim at those who finance Cluster bombs

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Our politicans on St Athan

McMercenaries -The truth about the Metrix Consortium

Murder Academy

Cynefin Y Werin

Stop the school for slaughter!

Stop the School for Slaughter : seren
By parabiodox But how will this military academy contribute to the Assembly's proud goal of achieving sustainable development? What exactly is Wales committing itself to when it signs up for the St Athan deal? oA future based on militarism ...UK Politics - Can't Get Enough - - http://recycledart.org

Colluding with arms sales

Hypocrisy from Brown ic Wales -can I also remind the Plaid/Labour coalition that the St Athan military academy, which they are all clamouring for, will be colluding with all the arms ...

"Oldies Corner""Whats new today is tomorrows oldie"Logs for CARDIFF IAP & MoD ST ATHAN - http://uk.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-7cbKlcA4eqgBelb0jEdzBJWvQaVJyNEQ5.pIDoQFvsJG

St Athan Military Academy colluding with arms manufacturers

Hypocrisy from Brown icwales Sep 29 2007

AS the monks in Burma are joined by more and more brave people to campaign for their freedom, the stench of hypocrisy from world leaders is overwhelming.
Who armed the despotic military dictatorship of Indonesia, which killed up to 200,000 people during their occupation of East Timor?

Britain and the US.

Who armed Saddam Hussein, who gassed thousands of his own people? Britain and the US.
Who is arming Israel with the latest lethal high tech weapons – cluster bombs, sound bombs etc used against the civilian populations in Lebanon and Palestine?

Britain and the US.

As Brown, Cameron and Bush shed their crocodile tears for Burma, the bullets, tanks and guns mowing down innocent people around the world have Britain stamped all over them.
Britain is selling arms and technology to 19 of the 20 nations at the top of the Foreign Office’s list of human rights abusers, and fuels regional instability by arming opposing sides in conflicts around the world.

Gordon and George demand the rights of the Burmese people to peacefully demonstrate.
But it was our Labour Government which brought out the most Draconian laws against peaceful protests, like Brian Haw’s vigil in Parliament Square against the Iraq war.

Can I also remind the Plaid/Labour coalition that the St Athan military academy, which they are all clamouring for, will be colluding with all the arms manufacturers responsible for the deaths of so many, and will undoubtedly be training some of the world’s dictators on how to kill and oppress their own people.

Ray Davies
Pandy Road, Bedwas, Caerphilly

For more information about Metrix Consortium the Mc Mercenaries Training and arms dealers
and private military coporations click here

Temple of peace Events for 'Day of Peace' Friday 21st

Two events of interest:
Friday 21st September is the UN International Day of Peace and all are welcome to attend the day of events taking place at the Temple of Peace in Cardiff. Daytime events have been arranged with young people in mind, school students are sending representatives and will include input from Justice not Vengeance and Voices in the Wilderness peace activist Milan Rai,

and an evening public meeting with speakers Bruce Kent and Norman Kember (peace activist kidnapped and later released, in Iraq).

On Saturday 22nd September an all day and evening Annual Peace Festival will include speakers Professor Nick Wheeler (International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Mabon ap Gwynfor, Jo Berry and Patrick Macgee. The event at Caernarfon will include seminars and workshops about a wide range of issues including Wylfa nuclear power station, St Athan ‘college of death’ plans and Trident nuclear weapons system. A ‘communities and conflict’ resolution training pack produced by the All Wales peace and justice network Cynefin y Werin will be launched. The day will end with music by Olive Grooves the Palestinian/Welsh band and the Welsh band Anrhefn. All Wales Peace Festival Y Galeri, Caernarfon - September 22nd 12pm until late www.cymdeithasycymod.org.uk

Demo at St Athan RAF and Army base

Story from Fitwatch! Officer LX365 - Ian Skivens was in attendance at a small demo outside the St. Athan RAF and army base in Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales on thursday august 23rd, along with a photographer friend from Staffordshire police force.

Activists from the "Stop St. Athan Murder Academy" coalition, which aims to stop the British military academy from being developed in the small town of St. Athan, stood outside one of the current bases gates with banners and placards as a photo opportunity to launch the campaign. When asked what he was doing such a long way from home, popular FIT watch pin up Ian Skivens said he was there to check out how other UK forces deal with protests or 'public order' situations. While he didn't seem to mind activists taking lots of photos of him, his photographer friend was more camera shy.