According to a local anti-incineration campaigner Dorothy from Derby, a great protest took place on the council house steps the other night. The event received media coverage, not least a lengthy article in Derby’s Evening Telegraph.

Some 70 people turned up and a protester had to be removed from the public gallery (during the process of the Council deciding to approve the contract with United Utilities) when “the public were kicked out for that part as it was commercially confidential or some other such rubbish…”.
Dorothy explains:

…we’re off to ask questions next week at full Council about why the LATS allocations don’t match up with what the officers are telling councillors (and thus the public) and then off to see Mrs Beckett MP on Saturday 14th February (her surgery) with a giant Valentine’s Day card for her, with a big heart on the front made from recyclables – the heart will be broken to indicate the sad lack of commitment to the Recycling Bill and the waste hierarchy – All welcome – meet on Derby Council House steps at 10.30am or send us your message for the UK Government…