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Rather than building a suburb at Green Mountain they should let us convert that old, industrial area by the river into apartments. You know I'm already working on the plans.'
‘Well? Do you think this group of yours could really stop them?’ asked Saffron, her voice full of doubt.
‘It’s a long process. Sometimes, before anyone has time to organise a protest on legal grounds, the bulldozers have already moved in.’
‘But everyone says the Mayor is bent and the developer is a crook!' exploded Charles. 'Why won’t the police do anything about it? The Mayor’s son is in my class at school. He’s an arrogant turd - thinks bragging and bullying is the way to get places. I don’t trust him as far as I could throw him!’
‘Well it sounds like he’s growing up just like his father,’ Angie commented. ‘It’s hard to catch those sort of dishonest people out. All the crooked deals are done in private. There is so much red tape that no one outside council can ever work out what is going on - police have to have hard evidence before they can act.’
‘You really have made me feel cheerful’ said Saffron sarcastically. She felt like screaming or crying, her family were just not helping at all.
‘Why don’t you just try and forget about it all for the moment?’ suggested Angie. ‘It might never happen. Get changed now and go and have a long ride on Magic. Don’t give up - you never know what sort of help we might find, in our fight to save Green Mountain.’