Letter from my MP

Many of you are beginning to receive letters from your MPs about the expected debate on banning driven grouse shooting.  Tomorrow’s blog post will give you some information for some ‘Firm briefing’ of your MP. Also, tomorrow evening I will post the ‘Star letter of the week’ from an MP to a  constituent.  I hope…

The Bird Fair – some pictures with me in them

The world’s most-loved Hen Harrier gets all the glamour gigs but I enjoyed the Bird Fair too – I’ll give you some thoughts tomorrow. But here are some images with just a few words. I see that Simon Lester has his own version of the Q&A at the Bird Fair out on the GWCT website….

The BBC and driven grouse shooting

The week before last there was copious coverage of driven grouse shooting before, on and after the inglorious 12th in the media – quite a lot of that was on BBC channels. This post is about how the BBC handled it and whether or not they were fair.  I’d give the BBC only 5 out…

How’s your day so far?

My day so far (before 0830): sent thank you emails to 30+ people who have written to their MP about driven grouse shooting went out to Stanwick Lakes and saw the Turnstone that has been there for a few days had breakfast, two slices of toast and marmite, in the garden saw a Holly Blue…

116,000+ signatures

We’ve passed 116,000 signatures and as I go to sleep we are close to 117,000. Woohoo!!! Here’s a list of all the constituencies over 350 signatures: Calder Valley 741 High Peak  538 Ross, Skye and Lochaber  493 Bristol West  485 Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey  459 Derbyshire Dales 450 Sheffield Central  429 Skipton and Ripon…