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Green Councillors are concerned that the Labour-run City Council has disposed of significant social housing in Norwich and allowed it to be demolished without firm plans for replacement. In 2006, the Green Party opposed the City Council's decision to uproot council tenants and leaseholders at 50 flats in Barrack Street on the basis of developer plans for a mixed use development.    In 2007, 19 sheltered flats at Greyhound Opening were 'decommissioned' and elderly residents were relocated.   Both sites still lie empty.    Green Councillor Paul Neale, County council candidate for Town Close said: " I am shocked, when there is a national housing crisis, and a local crisis made worse by the Bedroom tax, that tenants at Barrack Street and Greyhound Opening were moved against their wishes and the sites remain empty. The Green Party is pressing the Labour Cabinet at the City Council to urgently set out a solution to this issue. " G...

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There's no onus on us at 'Leave our kids alone' to provide evidence of harm from ads - the onus is on the advertisers to provide evidence that such ads don't do harm. It's utterly anti-precautionary to fill kids' minds with this stuff - it's like filling the atmosphere w ith carbon dioxide, or filling your lungs with smoke. There's no onus, in such cases, to show evidence of harm. Absence of evidence (of harm) is not evidence of absence. Have a listen to me on Radio 4, on YOU AND YOURS, debating with the ad industry's spin-master, who is trying to obfuscate this:   http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p017y992

On May 15th: The meeting is at the Charing Cross Centre in St. John Maddermarket at 7.30. All welcome. 'Guardians for future generations' is my exact topic.

Go 7 minutes in to hear RR's case for why we should   # BanAdsAimedAtKids :   http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016xrph   This afternoon on BBC RadioNorfolk.     Hear my debate this afternoon with a marketing man on Radio Wales (Go 1 hr 48 mins into this, to hear it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rt4mm ) on whether or not we should ban ads aimed at kids.

This is a smattering of the coverage we've garnered today: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/9985167/Advertisements-aimed-at-young-children-are-immoral-and-should-be-banned.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2307275/Ban-adverts-targeted-11s-Campaign-group-end-industry-built-childrens-pester-power.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/11/ban-advertising-young-children-yes Join the campaign! www.leaveourkidsalone.org