Last updated 15:54, Wednesday, 30 April 2008

WEST Cumbria Friends of the Earth have urged Prime Minister Gordon Brown and MP Jamie Reed to extend the government’s new Climate Change Law to cover all sources of carbon dioxide emissions, including the UK’s share of emissions from international aviation and shipping.

West Cumbria Friends of the Earth is taking action in support of The Big Ask, Friends of the Earth’s campaign for a strong Climate Change law. F

ive members of West Cumbria Friends of the Earth (three of them from Copeland) volunteered to spend time in the rain in Whitehaven on Saturday leafleting and collecting postcards to send to Gordon Brown urging him to extend the extent of the legislation.