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hi this is real important.please can you get this to as many like minded mo fo's as poss......we are being served with notice of prosecution on wed..need as much help and input as poss. below is a basic outline of who we are and what were about. thanks for your time.

Hello!!
We are writing to you to ask if you would be willing to help us in our oncoming conflict with the National Trust and Avebury Parish council. Firstly though please allow us to introduce ourselves and explain our situation.

Our names are Mik and Emma and we are representing a group of pagans who visit the Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire on a regular basis. Avebury is the temple of the ancient Briton's (built over 5000yrs ago). As the biggest stone circle in Britain it attracts thousands of different people from all sorts of backgrounds from all over the world.

Many of these visits are for the purposes of attending the religious ceremonies that take place at various differing times throughout the day and night. The main eight pagan festivals and all of the full moons are observed at the stones, so consequently this does require us parking our vehicles (for most of us our homes) in the tourists car park. Pagans have been parking in this car park overnight for many years so that they can safely enjoy and observe their religious celebrations. This has never been allowed by the National trust or the parish council but due to the goodwill of all parties no action has ever been taken. This has recently changed, the trust has began to issues prosecution notices to any vehicle parked over night. We really feel that this is an infringement on our right to religious ceremonies and the right to park our homes safely (could this be be a case of indirect discrimination?)

We seem to have become mediators between the car park and the trust, who are not being that unreasonable, it is the parish council above them that are causing the problems. There is a good rapport between ourselves and the trust, (we organise litter picking etc at summer solstice), they know we have the stones best interests at heart! At a recent meeting we managed to get the trust to see that by not prosecuting over the ceremonies, people would respect these dates and not park between the agreed dates. This is what has happened over the last few weeks, no regular users have parked overnight out of respect and by means of comprise.

We discovered at our meeting on 3/11/03 that this agreement had been denied, consequently we have offered ourselves to be prosecuted. It is hoped that will lead to precedents being set so that we can all go on to celebrate at this special site.

We would be very grateful for any advice, contacts, publicity and help that you could offer us.
Looking forward to hearing from you
Mik & Emma x

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