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the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843

CONTENTS – VOL 168 NO 18 3-5 News 3 Nuclear weapons fire up candidates ahead of general election 4 Ex-offenders win right to review of life on sex offenders register 5 New green house paves way for eco-revolution 6 The pressure of forming a Local Meeting

Loraine Brown 7 Comment

Roland Carn and Jez Smith 8-9 Letters 10-11 Gathering at Ashgrove

Diana Roantree 12-13 Arts 12 Towards mutual affirmation

Harvey Gillman 13 From painful origins new writing brings hope

Joan Cuthbertson 14 Junior Yearly Meeting epistle 15 ‘It has really changed me’

Peter Griffin and Lottie Dodwell 16 q-eye: witness

Judy Kirby and Ian Kirk-Smith

Cover image: Ashgrove Quaker burial site. Photo: Chris Stotesbury. See page 10-11. Images on this page: Proceedings from the Ashgrove pilgrimage in 2000. Photos: Gwynne Stock. See pages 10-11.

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