Letter to my MP on Fineshade Wood

Dear Mr Pursglove As part of your ‘Listening to Corby and east Northants‘ campaign I’m sure you would like to know how I feel about the possibility of a major development at Fineshade Wood. I’m against it! I was glad to see that you too were against it when you were seeking election and I…

Looking forward to my West Country tour!

I’m talking to the Devon Birds AGM on Wednesday evening (7.00pm at the Exeter Court Hotel, Kennford, Exeter EX6 7UX.  The Exeter Court Hotel is just off the A38 on the westbound carriageway. Directions can be found on the hotel’s website here) and to the Somerset Ornithological Society on Thursday evening (7.30pm at Ruishton Village…

The map is almost filled in

That’s the first 24 hours of this e-petition – and we have whizzed past 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 signatures. Thank you everyone! Almost every one of the 650 UK parliamentary constituencies has already got at least one signature registered in it – and the Calder Valley has 32.  The map above is hours out…

Humberstone Bank Farm – beyond nature

Yorkshire Water is making an interesting offer – help them improve water quality, water retention and carbon storage on their land while ‘working with the sporting interest’ on an upland farm north of Blubberhouses. Blubberhouses Moor in Yorkshire is mentioned in Inglorious (page 59) as the site where a stroppy rich man, Lord Walsingham, shot…