Felicity Norman

Felicity is the Green parliamentary candidate for Leominster.

Felicity Norman is a tireless campaigner on local and organic food, better public transport, slower speeds on our roads, and an end to the occupation of Iraq.

A former district councillor, she now serves as a Minster College governor, a Shopmobility trustee and organiser of the Leominster Apple Fair. Felicity is a teacher and smallholder and is married with two children.

"We face serious challenges locally and globally and must work together to bring about change. By voting Green you can show how urgent you believe these challenges are."

Felicity is a staunch supporter of several peace, development, environmental and community organisations and has been active in Green politics for over twenty years.

Felicity Norman was born in Worcester, the daughter of an Army officer. She attended agricultural college, worked on farms and travelled and worked abroad for many years. Later, she attended University College, London, gaining a Bsc. (hons) and a teaching qualification. Since then she has taught in local state primary and secondary schools.

Felicity has been a member of the Green Party for over twenty years and has contested local, parliamentary and European elections in the West Midlands for the Green Party, gaining 23% of the vote in the 1989 European elections. She is a former agriculture spokesperson for the party. She lives on a smallholding with her husband and two daughters and has served her community as its (Green) district councillor for seven years, until local government reorganisation in Herefordshire in 1998. Felicity supports many peace, development, environmental and community organisations.

Felicity supported the Green Party's passionate opposition to the attack on Iraq last year. The ongoing violence in the Middle East reinforced her view that war cannot resolve the widespread injustices in the area but will only create even greater problems. She believes we should employ the increasingly sophisticated techniques of conflict resolution and dialogue. Most of all, we need to address the underlying causes of unrest, poverty, injustice, environmental degradation and dwindling resources. An unfair world is an insecure world.

Herefordshire Green Party: www.herefordshiregreens.org.uk