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On Friday 29 May, the Shadow Environment Secretary visited the 'Middle Quinton' site
Nick Herbert MP came to see for himself how disastrous a 6,000 home new town would be for the area
Mr Herbert spoke to gathered protestors and re-iterated that the Conservative Party would scrap the plans for Middle Quinton

Sunday 5 April 2009: John Maples MP joined the BARD Campaign's Family Rally along the Greenway. Pictured here with Mike Walsby OBE, Chairman of Quinton Parish Council.
Sunday 5 April 2009: BARD held a family fun rally to mark the one-year anniversary of Middle Quinton's inclusion on the eco-towns shortlist. Throughout the day hundreds of eco-town opponents walked and cycled the Greenway between Stratford-upon-Avon and the proposed site.
24 September: BARD held an event to mark the one-year anniversary of Gordon Brown extending the eco-town programme from five to ten new towns
24 September: The bonfire was lit at 8pm, at the same time as other groups protesting against proposed eco-towns in Sussex, Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, and Bedfordshire

24 September: 'Gordon Brown' sat in the stocks and was pelted with sponges by protesters
The evening was fun for all the family as they enjoyed music, dancing and a barbeque with hog roast
25-26 July: BARD campaigners attended the Global Gathering festival at Long
Marston airfield. Hundreds of festival goers signed the petition opposing
the proposed eco-town
Monday 30 June: Martin Gittins represented BARD when several campaign groups
submitted their petitions to Downing Street.

Monday 30 June: BARD met with local MPs Peter Luff, John Maples and Geoffrey
Clifton-Brown as well as Shadow Housing Minister Grant Shapps and Housing
Minister Caroline Flint.
Monday 30 June: BARD joined protestors from nine other eco-town sites to
lobby Parliament on the eco-town process.
Thursday 19 June: Following a debate on eco-towns in the House of Commons, BARD campaigners gathered and spoke to ITV Central News about the proposed eco-town at Long Marston
Friday 23 May: Following the great success of BARD's public meetings in Honeybourne and Mickleton, we held a meeting in Stratford-upon-Avon to provide information about the new town to local residents.

Friday 23 May: The meeting was chaired by BBC presenter/journalist Will Hanrahan. The speakers were John Maples MP, a local representative of the CPRE, Izzi Seccombe and Stuart Beese for Stratford DC, Paul Middlebrough and Judy Pearce for Wychavon DC and Christopher Young QC, the BARD campaign's barrister
Friday 23 May: The meeting was a great success with many questions from the floor answered by the panel of speakers. At the end of the evening, a secret ballot revealed the audience to be firmly against the new town at Long Marston.
Ongoing roadside protests are taking place near the site of the proposed new town
Monday 12 May: Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the meeting of Stratford-upon-Avon District Council to voice their opposition to the new town at Long Marston (Photo by Mark Williamson)

Monday 12 May: Police were forced to block off Church Street as the numbers grew. People held banners and waved flags to show their opinion of the new town.
Monday 12 May: The result of the meeting was a unanimous vote by the Council to oppose the new town (Photo by Mark Williamson)
Monday 12 May: Even the most unlikely protesters were pleased with the result! (Photo by Mark Williamson)
Monday 5 May:
These were photographs taken at the Point to Point event at Ashorne. Left to Right: Joan Matthews (Chairman Long Marston PC) Cllr M Brain, Emma Holman-West, Cllr I Seccombe, Cllr Philip Seccombe.
Lots of signatures were collected and many T-shirts worn.

Monday 5 May:
And here's another shot of them at the Ashorne Point to Point
Sunday 27 April: Shakespeare's Birthday Celebrations. The BARD Campaign collected petition signatures at the Stratford-upon-Avon Marathon. Over 700 petition signatures were collected in one morning.
Sunday 27 April: Campaigners Robert Flaherty of Long Marston and Mike Carr of Welford-upon-Avon ran the half-marathon. Thank you and well done to both of them.
Sunday 27 April: Banners and signs decorated the marathon route to alert the people of Stratford-upon- Avon to the disastrous new town proposed for Long Marston.

Sunday 27 April: Banners and signs decorated the marathon route to alert the people of Stratford-upon- Avon to the new town as campaigners collected petition signatures