Love Local Music is brand new directory of the best, most exciting and hardworking acts in the area hosted at www.facebook.com/lovelocalmusic. Each week one of Love Local Music’s fantastic four musical ambassadors’ will put forward their  favourite act for everyone to take a listen to. All you need to do to get the weekly review is to ‘like’ the Love Local Music facebook Page.

To raise awareness for Love Local Music, Cornwall’s top local acts have come together for one amazing live performance on the 30th of September from 5pm on the car park at Fistral Beach.

Included in the outdoor live show will be Rosie Vanier (formerly Rosie and the Gold Bug) Grey Dog, Kola, Charlie Wingfield (and his new band) confirmed DJ’s include Tim Nice, Ant Durkin and Robin Parris with more acts still to be announced. Tickets are free but should be requested in advance from the Love Local Music Page or direct from the Fistral Beach Bar.

As part of the Love Local Music campaign there will be a free sampler CD featuring some of the best tracks that Cornwall’s acts have produced over the last year.
To find out where you can pick up your free CD or to reserve a place at the Love Local Music launch show just log onto www.facebook.com/lovelocalmusic and click “Like”.

Cover-Up was started by Suzanne Crawford who started to make poncho changing towels from beach towels for her surfing friends on the East Coast. “They were to help make those cold winter changes after surfing a little more bearable and to help us girls get out of our wetsuits easier in the beach car parks after those long summer surfs!” says Suzzane.

Cover-Ups are all made by hand on Suzanne’s old singer sewing machine in her small beach bungalow, on a cold windy cliff top in Yorkshire. Each towel has a huge cosy hood and wide arm holes for easy changing. Suzanne sources the towels from all over to make the Cover-Up’s in unique designs and bright colours, using nice quality velour toweling.  This makes each design limited and  new designs are added to the collection all the time.

Suzanne says,  “I started making changing towels a couple of years ago just for my friends and they have just taken off from there. My boyfriend has a surf shop in Scarborough so I started to sell them there before opening an on-line shop about a year ago. I work as a fashion accessories designer as my day job and make my changing towels in my spare time. Sewing is a real passion for me and I love creating something that someone is going to enjoy using. It is so great to see someone at the beach using something that you have put lots of care into making. It makes me smile every time we see someone changing under one of our cosy cover-ups!”

‘Cover Up’s’ started life being sold in Suzanne’s local surf shop LowBrow in Scarborough, they now have an on-line shop www.coverupsurf.com and have sold world-wide to Australia, California, Europe and all over the UK.

We’ve a lovely Cover Up to giveaway, simply answer this question – what sort of car park changer are you? Do you let it all hang out or try to cover your modesty at all times?

The best answer wins the Cover Up. Competition ends on September 30th.

Going to press, no sewage is discharging at any of the beaches participating in SAS�s Sewage Alert Service, so we can say with certainty that these beaches are sewage free today!�� No news is definitely good news for the beaches involved in the Sewage Alert Service.

These essential Sewage Alert Service messages were issued at:

Manorbier (Wales)
Broadhavern (Wales)
Shanklin (IoW)
Poole
Poole Branksome Chine
Bournemouth Christchurch
Bournemouth Hengistbury
Bournemouth Pier
Boscombe Pier (home to the artificial surfing reef)
Western Super Mare
Even during rain many of these beaches are heavily used by surfers, windsurfers and other watersports enthusiasts, so this vital water quality information can help them best choose when to hit the water.

Raw sewage is discharged via Combine Sewer Overflows (CSOs) when the sewerage system is overloaded by rain, population pressures or ineffective sewerage infrastructure.� This problem can be exacerbated after long dry spells as the ground is hard and not suited to absorbing rain.� That�s exactly what happened last weekend with the first downpour in weeks.

SAS provided alerts at 10 beaches, thousands of CSOs around the UK would have been discharging raw sewage into our rivers and seas.� We would strongly recommend using the beaches participating in our Sewage Alert Service, as only these beaches can provide you with real time information about sewage discharges.� You can get a full list of the beaches taking part here.

You can sign up for the free real time Sewage Alert Service here or visit the SAS map to check on your nearest beach taking part in this pioneering public health project.

Alternatively text �SAS (Beach Name)� to 64446.� Texts to 64446 are charged at your normal network rate and you can cancel by simply texting �SAS Stop� to 64446.

SAS Campaign Director says:� �Raw sewage does discharge onto our beaches and it�s a significant step forward for water companies to pass this information on.� Sign up for real time sewage alert texts from SAS and you can choose how and when is best to use the sea.�

Billabong British Juniors kicks off at Fistral this weekend and the competition looks to be even more fierce than last year.

The Billabong British Junior Surfing Championships will descend on Newquay, Cornwall the 11th & 12th of June. This years event is being supported by long time sponsor Billabong, Mojo Futuretech, Anns Cottage, Fistral Blu and Calypso. Come down and enjoy the competition, grab yourself some Billabong giveaways that are being fired out from the catapult or just chill at the beach bar while enjoying some Billabong films.

This years competition will be as fierce as ever with one of last year�s stand out�s Liam Murray Strout defending his under 14�s title. Reigning U/18 girls champion Laura Crane will have stiff competition this year from fellow British Team mates Gabrielle Rowe, Tassy Swallows and Jaide Lowe. Max Tucker and Tom Good in their last year of competing in the U/18 age category will be vying to take the crown off last year�s winner Luke Dillon. There will also be strong challenges from Harry Timson and last year�s finalist Jobe Harris.

Sam Carrier Men�s Marketing Manager for Billabong Europe �The Billabong British Juniors is always an exciting event bringing the top UK emerging young talent competing for the coveted British title.�

As always the event will include multiple divisions with there being the under 12s, U/14s, U/16s and U/18 boys along with the girls U/14 and U/18. It will be an enjoyable day with sponsors Billabong, Mojo Future Tech, Anns Cottage, Fistral Blu and Calypso ready to crown the Junior British Champions of 2011, so come down and join in!
For entry forms please contact Surfing GB who will be running the event with Billabong.

About Billabong
http://www.billabong.com.au/blog-post/45/history

In 2010 SAS’s campaigns were splashed over the front pages of The Sunday Times, featured in The Observer and starred in the UK�s most watched current affairs TV programme to mention but a few. This momentum translated into significant campaign victories for surfers and waveriders all over the UK.

SAS has never rested on our laurels and we have big plans for all of our campaigns in 2011. But before we get ahead of ourselves, we thought it would be the perfect time to reflect on the highlights from the year that was 2010.

Sewage

We started 2010 with a classic SAS action confronting the water industry as they tried, once again, to exploit legal loopholes to allow them to continue to pump untreated sewage into the sea. On the doorsteps of the court, our campaign squad greeted the water companies, their rude barrister and the judges with a huge image of a CSO clogged with sanitary towels, condoms and much worse. Emblazoned above this powerful and shocking image was simply the word �Appealing?�

In August we successfully exposed over 30 of the UK�s Blue Flag beaches because they couldn�t provide beach users with warnings when raw sewage was in the sea. We were the lone voice calling for information after sewage discharges. In 1 day alone we conducted over 30 press interviews and this high profile pressure helped us secured a great campaign victory. From 2011, all UK Blue Flag beaches with Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) must have systems in place to warn the public, in real time, when sewage is in the sea. This monumental campaign victory will help shape the future of public warnings about water quality.

Protect Our Waves

For the first time in the UK, waveriders and surfers have specific legislation to protect our waves, (surf spots, the surf itself and access to the surf). Our POW campaign resulted in recreational water users being awarded a seat on the regional planning partnerships within the Scottish Marine Bill. This gives surfers the appropriate platform to raise any concerns about impacts on our waves at the very earliest stage. We now have a bellowing mouthpiece, but we still need your eyes and ears on the ground, so be vigilant. Contact SAS with any information on waves under threat.

The Waves Are Resources (WAR) Report released this summer frames the intrinsic and economic value of waves.

The Waves Are Resources (WAR) Report released this summer frames the intrinsic and economic value of waves. To waveriders the values are obvious, but The WAR Report also details how and why waves should be recognised as valuable resources by non-surfers. Only once our precious waves� true value to the whole community is understood, can we begin to ensure they are provided the level of protection they deserve. The WAR Report is being actively promoted to planners across the UK, at all levels of Government and compliments SAS�s credible body of scientific reports.

Marine Litter

On April the 1st SAS filed several reports of UFOs landing on our beaches. Unidentified Floating Objects! The new UFO campaign relies on your expertise and experience to identify persistent litter items found on our beaches. Once we have the object identified we can start to trace where it comes from and work with the industry to change their polluting practices.

The infamous and award winning Return To Offender campaign influenced one of the biggest companies in the world this year, Coca Cola agreed to meet all of the Return To Offender campaign demands. Persuading Coca Cola to reduce their packaging, invest in low impact materials, promote reuse and recycling and to support anti litter campaigns is a fantastic achievement.

However, Coke still need to improve, as they came out top on last week�s Christmastide action. During Christmastide, AKA the 12 days of Christmas, we identified the 12 companies whose products we find most frequently littering UK beaches. On each of the 12 days we sent each offending a company a beautiful, yet shocking, image of their products on a snow-covered beach. The contrast of these offending rubbish items resting on the pure white snow, with glimpses of yellow sand and the stunning blue Atlantic as the backdrop, will hopefully compel each company into subscribing to the Return To Offender campaign.

Beach Cleans & Volunteering

Our excellent regional reps have had an incredibly active 2010, starting with the Spring Beach Clean in March. SAS volunteers in their hundreds turned up to our Spring Beach Cleans all over the UK, but this was just the tip of the iceberg for our beach clean and volunteer programmes in 2010.

The 3rd annual SAS Makes Beaches Barefoot Friendly tour was another whirlwind tour of some of the UK�s most popular beaches. Once again, with the help of the Barefoot Wine team, these events had a great community spirit. The reward for rolling your sleeves up and helping clean your precious beach was a tasty BBQ and cheeky wine tasting. This is one of the year�s highlights for the SAS team, we are able to make a real difference to a beach, meet a lot of like-minded people and have a fun, relaxed day. The good news is this tour will be dramatically expanded for 2011! Cheers to that!!!

In August the inspiring MotivOcean beach clean and surf experience tour exploded around the UK. This was our most ambitious beach clean and volunteer programme ever. And it was a resounding success! In the space of just 10 days over 1,000 of you turned up to help. The vast majority of the volunteers were the notoriously apathetic 16-25 year olds. MotivOcean Part II will be rolled out from January onwards. For more information on a MotivOcean event near you, email chris@sas.org.uk

Events

The UK�s best Stand Up Paddleboarders (SUPs) crossed the Channel and along the way they raised over �8,000 for SAS and set a new World Record! Even with a near perfect sea state the event was incredibly gruelling and took a huge amount of dedication and determination.

There had been a lot of rumours that the Ball would make a comeback in our 20th anniversary. And on the first week of September super-heroes from all over the galaxy descended upon Porthtowan for the IncrediBALL!

SAS Invinciball

We had a superb new site, some fresh new music, but kept the amazing atmosphere from all the SAS Balls. Will it return in 2011?

Looking Forward To 2011

The 2011 calendar is already filling up with campaign actions and events. With each passing year more and more threats to our precious coastal playgrounds are identified. This isn�t demoralising to the SAS team, we use this as a motivator, powering our campaigns forward and ensuring they are even more impactful than ever. But as a small team we can�t do this alone, we urgently need your support and engagement. We are looking forward to working with you again in 2011!

Did you all see SAS on national media last week with the Brown Flag campaign? Isn’t it shocking how our beach operators�have claimed that they do tell us if there’s been a spill of raw sewage on our beaches yet I’ve never once seen a sign, never once heard on local radio and not once been made aware that there has been a risk of catching any number of skanky, nasty diseases like hepatitis A, Ecoli, thyphoid or meningitis. And more to the point – they don’t have the systems in place to know when there’s been a spill or not.

The SAS Spring Clean with Barefoot Wines was a great success a couple of weeks back and on the beach we cleaned up here (Newgale – which looks kinda clean) we�collected over 300kg of litter, which is a staggering amount considering we were only there for around an hour and a half. Next up is the Motivocean tour.

Surfers Against Sewage have teamed up with Quiksilver Foundation & myGames (powered by v), and�will be hitting the road with the biggest beach clean tour in our history. Since 1994, the volume of marine litter on UK beaches has increased by 146%* and SAS is helping combat this tide line of trash through its beach cleans and ongoing campaigns.� �Motivocean� is SAS�s most ambitious beach clean tour to date and will be calling in at over 20 major UK beaches and waterside locations across the nation. to find out more you can drop a quick email to chris@sas.org.ukor check it out on their Facebook Page. Our beach clean will be at Newgale Beach NEXT WEDNESDAY (25th Aug) and we’re meeting at 1pm on the� beach, if you live� near by please come along- it would be great to meet you.

One last note before I get out for a wet and windy walk along the Pembrokeshire coast – the SAS Ball� tickets are still available to buy here www.sasball.co.uk. see you there!!

SAS volunteering programme brings the magic of the 2012 Olympic Games to UK Beaches��

This August,��SAS��will be promoting the link between coastal environmental protection and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games through its event�����Motivocean��-��Beach Clean & Sports Tour���. SAS will be holding events right around the country between 20^th����� 31^st��August, offering youth volunteers the chance to get involved with beach clean activities and then go surfing as a reward.��

The ���mygames��� programme, launched today, calls on young people to undertake exciting volunteering projects in the community that promote and celebrate the values of the 2012 Olympic Games. Values that include friendship, respect, excellence, equality and determination.

Volunteers between 16-25 years old the opportunity to access and experience exciting sports, including��surfing and some Olympic sports, by participating in the protection of the very environment that facilitates them ��� our beaches & oceans. The sea and coastal environment are a vital component of so many sporting activities from sailing to surfing, windsurfing to volley ball, and through this initiative SAS aims to reinforce and build awareness, linking sport and protection of the environment.

Hugo Tagholm, Director of Surfers Against Sewage commented, ���We���re delighted to be launching the��mygames programme, which will help volunteers develop their skills, while making a meaningful difference to the coastal environment. Youth volunteers will be involved in a range of activities through our��Motivocean Beach Clean & Sports Tour��including protecting the UK���s precious coastline. They���ll also get the chance to go surfing with us.�����

Surfers Against Sewage��is now looking to recruit young volunteers for the project ��� further information can be found by contacting Chris Ranford on��chris@sas.org.uk��or 01872 553 001, or by visiting��vinspired.com.

Spring is here, horrah!!, and think it’s gonna be a warm weekend.�� Finally had my first
bbq of the year yesterday with the boyfriend on the beach. And it was utter bliss!!

So what better way to spend this weekend, than taking a lovely (summer eve) walk
to see the most glourious of sunsets that will soon be avaliable now…woop! or simply
grab your friends and light up a bbq on the beach, with plenty of chatter and the warmth
of the bbq to keep people toasty as the evening sets in.

Happy lovely weekend everyone!!

At the end of last week Andy and Hugo��left St Agnes for The��Big Smoke in their tidy dinner jackets and boardies��to collect an award��for the Best Marine Project 2010. Three years ago SAS��identified tiny plastic pellets known as mermaids tears, on beaches in abundance all over the UK and after tracing them back to their source, exposed the plastic factories as a source of this pollutant. Mermaids tears��are the raw material from which plastic products are made and can be a persistent problem in the environment.

In June 09 Operation Clean Sweep was set up to reduce the amount of mermaids tears washing from the factories into the drains- which ultimately end up at sea. The little plastic drops can only be seen when you look, but once you recognise one you see them in their thousands laying in the sand��along the tide line. Once in the sea, they can increase in toxicity as they adsorb aqua-phobic chemicals, carcinogen’s and PCBs, that can bio accumulate (work their way up the food chain). SAS are also concerned that they look like fish eggs and have been mistaken for food by the bigger fish- which can wind up on our plate for dinner, so could effect not only the natural environment but also our health.

Anyway, congratulations to Surfers Against Sewage for another very sucessful campaign.

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