World leaders attending the Copenhagen summit on climate change and global warming had obviously forgotten to inform Mother Nature as cold weather gripped the Continent and snow-proof clothing was mandatory for the latest leafleting session in the North Durham constituency, reports our North East correspondent.

“Even though it was snowing heavily in Stanley, County Durham, members of the intrepid North Durham Constituency group were out on their general election campaign delivering their No More Loss of British Blood leaflets to the constituents,” our correspondent said.

Group organiser Roland Craggs said, “We’ve been targeting the town of Stanley now for the last two weeks and have received plenty of requests for information packs.”

Leading the leafleting team was the BNP’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for North Durham, Pete Molloy, who was glad to meet and talk to some of the constituents.

“It was good to speak to the constituents and they were glad to hear that the BNP was standing in their constituency in the next general election,” Mr Molloy said.

“They told me they have had enough of their Labour MP and the Labour Party and are looking for change. Some of them have applied to join the BNP, but are waiting for the membership to reopen,” he added.