Photocopying and licking down envelopes; phone calls on old-fashioned landlines, posting newsletters, typing out press releases one electric typewriters – all the rage – and posting or sending by fax to the local newspapers and TV stations.  That was campaigning in the 1980s.

No social media, email or Facebook.  We were out in the streets and at the bay, in Northumberland and at the House of Commons. Journalists from the local papers were our pals, and the TV reporters knew us well.  And we succeeded.  The Central Electricity Generating Board’s plans to have nuclear power stations at Druridge Bay were halted in 1989, on the same day that the Berlin Wall came down. We certainly generated pressure! This book tells the story of how we did it.