Access to information request – Partial release – Request No RFI 3031 regarding all records of, and documents related to, NE Board discussions on SSSI, SPA, SAC designation programmes, ‘gate zero’ and changes in strategy and approach from the present day back to the beginning of 2011 Many thanks for your letter and enclosures dated…
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World Teachers’ Day
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Today is World Teachers’ Day. These are teachers whose names I can remember and who made a difference to me. There are many others I’m sure – but it was a long time ago! Thank you to them all. Cleve House School, Bristol: Miss Gregory, Mrs Glide, Mrs Lane, Mrs Beard, Mr Handley. Bristol…
The first 20,000 signatures
Our e-petition to ask the Westminster government to ban driven grouse shooting, reached 20,000 signatures last night. That took less than two and a half months. Last year, the similar e-petition took six and a half months to reach the same milestone. And remember, this has been done by you and me, and 19,998 others…
Oscar Dewhurst – Bittern and Marsh Harrier
Oscar writes: When I spent some time at Minsmere in the spring of 2014 one of the things I saw but never managed to photograph was the confrontations between Bitterns and Marsh Harriers. Whenever a Marsh Harrier hunting over the reed bed happened to pass near a Bittern’s nest the latter would shoot up out…
Let’s get a debate in parliament!
I’m grateful to the ‘TeamforNature’ (on Twitter @MMNNActionUK) for setting up a thunderclap in support of the idea of getting a debate in the Westminster parliament on the future of driven grouse shooting. You can add your name to this thunderclap if you have a Twitter, Facebook and/or tumblr social media account. Then, provided we…