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NEWS REEL :: 28th April - Peter Ainsworth's Office send follow up letter to Hilary Benn's Office :: 2nd May - petition hits 1317 and breaks into top 100 :: 2nd May - Letter from DEFRA's Head of Policy at last!! :: 5th May - Letter sent to Head of Policy Requesting Meeting to resolve the knowledge gap!! :: 12th May - BKFA raises campaign issue with CCPR :: 4th June 2008 - PM Petion Ends with 1,412 signatures :: 12th August 2008 @ 16:57 The Government Respond to the Petition :: END

Monday, 24 September 2007

Gone to ground......

It seems as though the "Customer Champions" department are taking a leaf from Batman's book and have gone to ground in the Champ-Cave!! Unfortunately the lady who has the key to Champ-mail has had to call in the repair team as it appears to have been foiled by the Joker!! Sorry....my poor sense of humor. It appears that once a query has reached these dizzy heights normal service ceases and no one can track what's happening. So I am still waiting for a call back from the Lass at the call centre. I tried to get hold of her again today but she's engaged and another email has gone to her requesting a call back......hummm. So I'm afraid the waiting game persists, no news is good news!! On the subject of the hunt for statements about the impact of the sport on grass, I have to put a huge THANKS out to Mell at the BPKA, Justin at the Essex Powerkite Park and Al from Powerkiters who have all pledged their time to send in a statement. These will prove to be invaluable, if the response is as we would like. Forewarned is Forearmed!! Growth continues to be steady with the petition we're now at 850 sigs and ranked 217, still respectable but there is still a way to go yet. Oh yes and another case of spin arrived (thanks to rarelymarty on racekites) in the Times of all papers about councils and response to signatures (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2484959.ece) definitely don't believe all you read in the papers, especially the bit about Downing street responding to petitions over 200 on their website.....All I can see is there has to be over 60,000!! We've a bit to get yet :0) Keep signing, poking and chivvying...Thanks to all.

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To have Kitesports expressly listed in the Single Payment Scheme, Cross Compliance Guidance list for Permitted Activities as a Group A (Permitted Without Restriction.) activity. For the technical details see the bottom of the page. Free farmers to allow traction kiters to utilise their land in an environmentally responsible manner without it effecting their subsidies
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