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A Fylde politician shared a tour bus with Dame Vivienne Westwood, which resulted in her supporting the Blackpool anti-fracking protests in 2018.

Tina Rothery, the Green Party candidate for Fylde, got to know Dame Vivienne while they were sleeping on a tourbus during anti-fracking awareness tour in 2014/15.

‘Vivienne would come out translucent and lovely and then worked hard all day’

Tina, who began researching the effects of shale gas industry when she moved to Blackpool around ten years ago, remembers the fashion icon as a ‘tireless’ campaigner who ‘woke up looking perfect’.

Vivienne Westwood: Fylde Green Party candidate remembers sharing a tour bus with Dame Vivienne on anti-fracking campaign

‘Vivienne would come out translucent and lovely and then worked hard all day’