22,000

And another milestone is passed. Thank you everyone! The next milestone is pretty close too: last year we reached 22,399 signatures in 10.5 months and that total is within reach inside three months. Please sign the e-petition to get a debate on driven grouse shooting and please join the Thunderclap to help spread the word…

Oscar Dewhurst – Little Owl

Oscar writes: This is another taken of my local Little Owls where I spent some time earlier in the summer. This was taken early one morning after I’d spent a while looking for them without success. I then noticed one of the owlets hunting around a fallen tree trunk on the ground. I lay down…

21,000

It was last Sunday that our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – or at least to get a debate on the subject in the Westminster parliament – passed 20,000 signatures. Yesterday, Saturday it romped past 21,000 and today, it is within a couple of score of 22,000. Please note – we are not even…

Lead – mark this quote for later.

There is a piece in the Sunday Telegraph today about the findings of the Lead Ammunition Group. There isn’t anything new in it for readers of this blog (The findings of the Lead Ammunition Group, 9 September 2015 ) except some quotes. Those quotes from the chair of the group, the ex chief executive of…

Some of Ralph Underhill’s best cartoons from 2013

Ralph is on holiday  – and he deserves it! He has provided cartoons for this website for three years now – very reliable guy! Here are a few of my favourites from 2013!