Do we need streetpanthers in Stroud?

Over in Greece, a new organisation called Streetpanthers has been in operation since last December, fighting for the rights of pedestrians. Beginning with just 10 members, they have already grown to include 2,000 'friends', and are hoping to hit 10,000 by the end of the year. Any car parked badly blocking pavements or crossings gets a sticker on their windscreen. Scroll down on their website to find English.

In a similar vein in Norwich, Streetpanthers have created a series of stickers to highlight anti-social and illegal parking, and their dedicated sticker-ers have already managed to dispatch nearly 100,000!

After trying to move along a pavement in Stroud the other day I wished I'd had several of those stickers for cars that made progress with a wheelchair virtually impossible.