Please email your MP to ask them to vote to strengthen the Marine Bill. This is our last chance to get protection for the marine ecosystem as a whole into the Bill.

Please act now. Parliament is voting on this issue on Monday 26th October.

How to email your MP

1. Go to Friends of the Earth’s “Contact your MP” page and enter your postcode: http://www.foe.co.uk/community/resource/contact_mp.html
2. Choose “Email this MP”
3. Paste in the text under the “Suggested Letter” heading, remembering to add your MP’s name at the top and your own name at the bottom.

You can also visit your MP in your constituency this weekend (Friday/Saturday). Telephone your MP’s constituency office to find out whether this is possible.
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Manchester FoE have designed a postcard to be sent to MPs asking them to sign EDM 337 and write to Huw Irranca-Davies, the Minister responsible for the Marine and Coastal Access Bill, calling on him to strengthen the legislation.

If your MP hasn’t yet signed, why not send them the postcard?

We’ve created a new set of template letters, targeted at each of the three big parties. If your MP hasn’t yet signed EDM 337, please write to them asking them to do so!

• Draft letter to Tory MP
• Draft letter to Lib Dem MP
• Draft letter to Labour MP

Members of York and Ryedale Friends of the Earth, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and Miss Earth (Caroline Duffy) met with York MP Hugh Bayley to call on his to support the establishment of a network of highly protected marine reserves in UK waters. The meeting was on the front page and on page 3 of the local paper – The Press. Hugh Bayley has signed EDM 337 and has written to Huw Irranca-Davies, the minister responsible for the Marine and Coastal Access Bill to invite him to a public meeting. The meeting with campaigners is also featured (and illustrated!) on the MP’s website