'Nine Miles' describes the fight against the Newbury bypass and other road protests of the British Isles in the mid nineteen nineties. It was a fight characterised by extreme cold, fire and community, cider, drugs and living simply in the woods. It was a fight to preserve our natural inheritance, to make the case for sustainable transport in the face of powerful vested interests and, in a wider sense, to stand up for the earth herself at a time when - as now - our lifestyles were often grossly out of balance with the natural order of things.

This site, like the book it promotes, is intended as a tribute to those protests, hopes to stand as a reminder of what can be achieved when people collectively act on their best intuitions, when they let their actions be informed by the sense of urgency and dedication that we so clearly need now more than ever before.