Defra still hasn’t answered this very simple question – ‘Do ministers sign off on responses to e-petitions. And who signed off the response to John Armitage’s successful e-petition about licensing shooting estates?’ Teresa Dent hasn’t yet replied on behalf of Rules restaurant on the expected levels of poisonous lead in the meat that they sell….
Author: Mark
Natural England seem to have lost the West Pennine Moors
I view the north of England pretty much as an enigma wrapped in a cloth cap and walking a whippet. I’m better on the east of the country than the west where everywhere seems to be a town beginning with B, and it is indeed the area between Bolton and Blackburn with which we are…
So that was March
So that was March – spring has not yet fully sprung. I sat by the side of the road in County Durham, and there were displaying waders everywhere – drumming Snipe, tumbling Lapwing, a distant Golden Plover, yelping Redshank and even the occasional bubbling Curlew but the three Blackcock at the lek were just mooching…
Forests
I spent some time with a bunch of Forest Enterprise England staff last week. They were very nice – they invited me to tell them what I thought of them. I admire FE staff – so much so that I wish they had more to do with delivering the things that I care about; a…
Henry visits a patch of grass
Henry was very keen to visit the site where the ‘Sodden 570’ protested against the persecution of Henrys everywhere. Here we are near the Fairholmes visitor centre – and the sun was shining! For comparison, here is Harry, Chris, Barry and me, standing in the rain, on Hen Harrier Day 2014.