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Court Bid to Block Weymouth Road Fails

Environmental pressure groups have failed in a legal challenge to a controversial plan to build a relief road through protected coun­tryside in south Dorset.

A High Court judge in London refused permission yesterday for a judicial review of Dorset County Council's decision to grant per­mission for the Ј84.5m project. Campaigners against the Weymouth relief road say that the route will cut through an area of out­standing natural beauty (AONB) and damage the ancient woodland of Two Mile Coppice and Lorton Meadows nature reserve.

Dorset council is backed by many local residents and businesses who say their lives are blighted by traffic congestion on the main road into Weymouth, which is to host sailing events in the 2012 Olympics. The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and Transport 2000 accused the council of ignoring regional policy which gives priority to the conservation and enhancement of the natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage of AONBs.

The court action was backed by the Woodland Trust, Friends of the Earth and the Ramblers Association. But Mr. Justice Collins said the council had sufficient grounds for deciding the roads scheme would foster the social or economic wellbeing of the area.

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John Lennon

John Lennon was and still is one of the most popular and ad­mired songwriters of our century Everybody loved him, that is eve­rybody except the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the govern­ment of the late Richard Nixon. In the paranoid time of the early 70's, before Watergate, the Nixon White house instructed the FBI's illustrious leader, J. Edgar Hoover, to dig up as much dirt as possi­ble on the former Beatle. Newly opened files show the aim of the operation was to find enough evidence, preferably in narcotics, to deport him and his wife Yoko back to Britain "where they belong".

Lennon, himself an ardent anti-war activist at the time — in the aftermath of Vietnam — often complained of constant harassment from the boys in black glasses. This was dismissed as paranoia at the time. Over twenty years later it is now certain that Lennon was speaking the truth. The files on the investigation into John Lennon have, after a long battle, been opened to public scrutiny and they make fascinating reading: FBI agents were stationed across the road and all around Lennon's house at 105 Bank Street, New York. "They wanted him to see an agent behind every mail box," said Jon Wiener, a historian at the University of California, on whose behalf the documents were eventually disclosed by the Bureau.

While much of the surveillance was meant to intimidate the for­mer Beatle into leaving the US and halting his anti-war activities, the FBI were also very eager to catch him with drugs. It became somewhat embarrassing for the Bureau however when they found out that Lennon had been appointed to President Nixon's Council for Drug Abuse. A senior FBI officer at the times discussed the huge irony of this with H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's chief of staff, but nonetheless pledged to intensify FBI efforts to "neutralize" the Briton.

In 1972 the Bureau got very excited when they saw that Lennon had donated U.S. $75 000 to an anti-war organization which, it was rumored was preparing to sabotage the Republican convention to re-nominate Nixon. The feds were confident that once Lennon had been deported this group and others like it, would die out. Not so. They had to finally admit that they might not be able to deport him. So they continued to harass him. "Subject's actions are being closely followed," says one memo to Haldeman. "New York office covering subject's temporary residence and being instructed to in­tensify discreet investigation," says another.

The resources used to harass Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were immense and impressive and demonstrate the climate in the U.S. at the time when Lennonism briefly replaced Leninism as the bogeyman. It is ironic that the FBI never did get him and that John Lennon was destined to die on American soil, killed by somebody, no doubt a man much more worthy of the FBI's attention than the Liverpudlian legend.