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Green Party names candidate for Stroud District Council Severn ward by-election on WEdnesday June 11th

The Green Party candidate for the Stroud District Council by-election in Severn ward on June 11 is Moya Shannon.

Moya previously stood in the ward during last year’s SDC elections and gained more than half of the number of votes gained by either of the winning candidates. She believes that at her second attempt, with the Greens riding high after the recent County Council elections, she stands a very good chance of winning.

Moya has lived in Stroud district since 1990, mainly in Eastington, where her three children attended local schools.

She worked as an administrator for her family’s long-established oak frame carpentry company. She was previously a teacher, and worked at two local secondary schools over a period of 27 years.

A lover of local heritage and historic buildings, she is involved with helping to raise money for the Eastington Church Roof Appeal. When her children were young, she was actively involved in the playgroup and Parent Teacher Association in Eastington.

If elected, Moya will campaign for small community-based electricity generation schemes and more solar on domestic, commercial and industrial roof spaces, to avoid the need for large-scale solar farms.

She will also campaign for better local transport links and cycle routes. She says: “I will also work to ensure that local developers are held to account, because building houses should be about building homes and not just about making profits. Housing needs to be affordable, sustainable, meet the needs of local people and provide a healthy environment to live in.”

She believes that local farmers need more support in order to provide food security, help them produce food in a more sustainable way and mitigate against the effects of climate change.

She adds: “Severn ward is such a beautiful area and I feel very privileged to live here. I believe strongly that we need to protect the natural environment and way of life and that will be a priority for me if I am elected.”

The by-election was called as the result of the untimely death in April of Cllr Richard Maisey, who had held the seat for Labour since May 2024. Moya says: “Richard was a popular and effective ward councillor and I hope I can prove to be an equally good councillor and be an effective voice for our community.”

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Watch our latest episode of Cloud Cafe, our long-running online series. March subject is “We Are Water: A Climate Priority”

Speakers included Nicola Cutcher – cleaning up the River Wye as seen on the documentary Rivercide, Charlotte Lawrence, from WWT who talked about the Gloucestershire Citizen Science Project and Senara from Keep Our Seas Chemical Free.

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All types of pollution in the environment gradually take their route to water in one way or another causing water pollution.

Water pollution is considered one of the most dangerous forms of pollution as water is the basis of all the forms of life on earth. Most of the deadly forms of water contamination are caused by man-made activities that result in the death and diseases of many organisms. It is responsible for the devastating effects on aquatic life as well as terrestrial life and can contain harmful disease-causing elements such as bacteria and viruses.

Toxic waste dumped into water bodies increases water pollution levels, gradually killing animals and plant life, destroying biodiversity, and decreasing the quality of oxygen in the water, leading to the death of living organisms.

NICOLA CUTCHER

Nicola updated us on the progress of work to clean up the River Wye as seen on the documentary Rivercide, a live investigative documentary streamed in 2021, presented by George Monbiot and directed by Franny Armstrong,

CHARLOTTE LAWRENCE

Charlotte talked about the Gloucestershire Citizen Science Project from WWT, funded by the Council with the aim of improving the health and status of water-related environments in Gloucestershire and the Severn Vale area.

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Senara spent many years working in TV documentary production in London before returning to Cornwall in 2009. Senara set up the group Keep Our Sea Chemical Free in 2023 and organised the protests against geo-engineering in the St.Ives Bay.