Yellow Crosby

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 11:08

The HOPE not hate bus rolled into Crosby yesterday to be met by thousands of people enjoying the final day of the town’s four-day music festival. The town was awash with yellow, as three hundred people wore HOPE not hate T-shirts, hundreds of balloons were launched and HnH hoardings surrounded the stage.

Kevin, fresh from his encounters with the BNP in the North East, had a more basic challenge to face this time – namely a bridge which we only just sneaked under.

The festival was sponsored by Unison and dozens of local activists were on hand to ensure the day went smoothly. Over three hundred people signed up to deliver HOPE not hate newspapers over the next few days, with the demand so great that we are now having to ring around to find more papers to add to the 20,000 Sefton had been allocated.

Headlining the bill was The Christians. They performed a few of their old classics to a highly appreciative audience. However, the star of the weekend was eight-year-old Sophie Williams, daughter of local Unison branch secretary Glenn Williams. Introducing The Choir on Sunday she said: “I hope for peace, I hope for tolerance and for all people to be treated fairly no matter what the colour of their skin”.

She added: “More than anything, at eight years old, I hope my front tooth grows and I grow into this T-shirt.”