CITY JOINS COP27 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTEST

MEMBERS of North Staffs Green Party will join activists from trades unions and environmental groups at a protest in Hanley this Saturday.

The protest has been organized by North Staffordshire Climate Coalition, a campaign group founded in the run up to last year’s COP26 summit in Glasgow.

A spokesperson for North Staffs Green Party said: “Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and we demand action because the government under Rishi Sunak has not stepped up to its responsibilities.

“The situation is approaching a point where we will not be able to turn things around and will hand on a world that has been irreparably damaged to future generations”.

The protest runs from midday at the bus station in Lichfield Street.