Campaigners have pledged the fight is on to save Leek's landmark roundabout as news of its plight goes global.
Veterans residents and councillors have vowed to carry on the fight despite hopes of the retaining the traffic island seem to have been dashed by highway officials earlier this month.
Brian Pointon, a leading figure in the campaign to Your leek Paper he remains adamant that he will stand before the bulldozers to get his views heard
" We are continuing this fight, he said." I am going to chain myself to the roundabout, I will do this and I have been getting support about it"
The news has come that the plight of the stricken roundabout reached the States where a calender showcasing the island in all its splendour hit the printers.
Staffs Moorlands baker and roundabout crusader Sarah Gayton e-mailied Florida's Ocoee Community gazette in a bid to raise the bar of the fight to international levels
"The newspaper sticks up for little people",she said "I e-mailed them a little time ago and they lead with the story of the roundabout and they mentioned it again. Nobody has been listening ,we are doing everything in our power, but no one is listening"
Leek Deputy Mayor Cllr Pam Wood meanwhile said she is very aware that the people of Leek still want to challenge the decision to remove the roundabout
A public campaign to save an 80 year old roundabout in the Staffordshire Moorlands town of Leek
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