RAP SCORES 5,200 AS CHESHIRE SAYS ----- NO! ---- TO GAS PLANT II

Last week on 28th March, with a stunning 5,200 no-gas-plant letters delivered to Cheshire County Hall, the guillotine came down, since that's when Cheshire County Council Planning officers stopped counting the continuing flood of protest letters for the official report to the Development Regulatory Committee, who will make the big decision on May 21. Said RAP Chairman, John Halstead, "We are absolutely delighted with this huge number of letters. The target we had to beat was the 4,200 letters which Council Officers counted against Scottish Power's first gas plant planning application. So the huge margin by which we have surpassed 4,200 is final proof that the people of Cheshire don't want the gas plant, and we look to our elected Councillors to reflect the will of the people in their decision on May 21st." Added RAP press spokesman Dr John Edwards, "Remember too, that the people of Cheshire sent in this many letters in only three weeks, as compared with the three months or more, they had last time. This huge success is partly due to our use of standard letters that people could simply sign for us to deliver, but every one of those was signed of somebody's own free will, because unlike Scottish Power, RAP believes in democracy and in giving people a free choice."