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DORSET Council is one of three local authorities in the South West with the largest percentage of assets invested in fossil fuels. A report by environmental campaigners Friends of the Earth and Platform revealed that the pension fund of Dorset invests around 4.49 per cent of the fund’s value into fossil fuels. According to the campaigners, Dorset, Devon, and Avon council pension funds account for 58 per cent of all fossil fuel investments by Local Authority Pension Funds in the South West. Co-ordinator of East Dorset Friends of the Earth, Angela Pooley told the Daily Echo: “Our fi...

As Trinity College Cambridge divests, UK council pensions still hold £10bn in fossil fuels Freedom of information requests by environmental campaigners have revealed that UK local government pensions held almost £10bn in fossil fuel companies last year, despite the trend towards climate emergency declarations. The requests reveal the pension investment trends of more than 80 UK councils The results of the requests, which pertained to investments held in the 2019/20 financial year, have been published today (23 February) by Friends of the Earth and Platform in the form of a report. The organ...

Local councils that have declared a climate emergency are continuing to pour money into fossil fuels through their staff pension funds, analysis has shown. Nearly £10bn worth of investments in fossil fuels, including oil and gas companies such as BP and Shell, were found in local government pension funds in the last financial year, according to an assessment by the campaign groups Platform and Friends of the Earth. Councils in Greater...

SCHOOLCHILDREN in Dorchester are to get free laptops thanks to a generous donation. The Ashley, Churchill and Thorner Educational Trust (ACTET) is donating a total of £22,500 to schools in Dorchester to help them buy children new and refurbished laptops. While schools are closed, children are having to do their schooling from home and access to a computer and the internet can be crucial to ensuring pupils are able to get a good quality education. ACTET Trustee and North Dorchester Councillor, Andy Canning, said: “It is really important in these difficult times that we help children...

An old Dorchester park and Ride sign PROPOSALS for a park and ride for Dorchester should be dropped from future plans for the area – according to town councillors. They say the last loss-making scheme failed to work and was closed down despite being subsidised by the previous district council. Since the pandemic very few office workers, including those employed by the Dorset Council, are coming into the county town to work. Cllr Andy Canning says that council workers are not now expected to return to Dorchester in large numbers with many continuing to work from home, if only for par...