::: UK Final Four Projects in £50m lottery race/bid for the money!! :::

[ForestGlade34]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7058438.stm

::: UK Final Four Projects in £50m lottery race/bid/challenge :::


Four environmental groups are to compete for £50 million of lottery money, the largest single amount ever awarded by the Big Lottery Fund.

A public vote on ITV and online will decide the contest between the Eden Project, sustainable transport charity Sustrans, the Sherwood Forest Living Legends and a Black Country Urban Park

I'm undecided anyway.... I don't think BlackCountry is one *I* care much about though.

[ForestGlade34]

Two other slightly less prominent links worth their pants.... on the same subject and same bidding with same hopefuls....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7057299.stm [speaks again of four final contenders] :)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7058677.stm (this one is a loser --Waterlinks-- that did not make final selection for final entry, F me, why don't water companies fix their own god damn leaking pipes, they have enough of OUR money already)

[ForestGlade34]

Or even if Waterlinks is not about pipes serving public homes, whatever, because it was still worth a dig were that the case, haha.

[Pirate Ferret]

My friend made me sigh up and vote for the Sherwood forest one last week!
Seemed like a good choice to me, preserve history and all that
http://www.thepeoples50million.org.uk/home you vote there

[ForestGlade34]

well course, everyone is going to vote for "SHERWOOD" (name pronounced in a patronizing but hysterical and funny way by my imaginery sidekick Rick Mayall)
with that Robin of Sherwood series on our screens, ya know what I mean ...(good viewing tho that is).

Thanks for the link, you have to sign up, WTF ??
ETA, I guess I'm not really complaining about having to sign up, its probably needed to prove who people are, rather than just some anonymous ISP adress.

[ForestGlade34]

WTF: I'll just post all the videos begging for votes right here too!

http://www.thepeoples50million.org.uk/projects/sherwood (its a forest, it has to survive we know that)
http://www.thepeoples50million.org.uk/projects/connect2 (sustrans cycling network, I cycle everyday, why of course!!!)
http://www.thepeoples50million.org.uk/projects/the-edge (Eden Evironment/Ecology Project & proposed eco-friendly new education building, for me to live in)
http://www.thepeoples50million.org.uk/projects/black-country (oooh arrrh take me back this one does, to a place I don't wanna go :lol:)

[ForestGlade34]

That Ferret is one hell of a pirate !.... here's he link again:

http://www.thepeoples50million.org.uk/home ...."you vote there" (she said, she's right)

http://www.thepeoples50million.org.uk/forum/people.php?PostBackAction=ApplyForm
(sign up.... it is but a brief set of details like username and email, and whatever your real or other name maybe if we can get away with being not quite honest for the sake of privacy.... FERRET, does your ACTUAL/real name show to other people on this site or not ??)

[ForestGlade34]

ALTERNATIVELY: Vote by phone
HOWEVER long for the day or days, the lines keep open, I can't discern but hopefully for more than just the Friday7th....

If you do not have access to another computer then you can vote via telephone. Telephone voting lines will open at 9am on Friday the 7th of December

[Pirate Ferret]

Fook sake
Why are they putting the clips of the places in the middle of films?!

I sit through the news so I can watch the end of 40 year old virgin
then now its going on about the bleeding sherwood forest!

uh can they put it at the beginning or the end plz, not make me wait an hour in the middle!

im annoyed out of principal, this film is terrible.

[ForestGlade34]

:lol: I seriously gave up watching the 40 year old virgin WAY BEFORE the news last night. :lol: anyhow I know what you mean, about its the same general principal on ITV when they show a movie (news or whatever in between/ stuff in the middle) as compared to the videos?... I guess, but I've still to view these videos about the lottery bid, so time for that today hopefully..

[IamJen]

Heh. The whole "news in the middle of a movie" concept is mind boggling to me. The first time that happened to me after we moved here, I thought maybe they were showing part two the next night or something. Very un-American. :p

Voting closes in an hour. I can't decide! I got the hard-sell from the Sustrans people at a fair this weekend, but I like the Black Country one too... :dizzy:

[ForestGlade34]

oh I am too slow to vote, I'm not surprised at myself.... but still I will look forward to the final result/s.