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You’ll remember that DEFRA said it was going to do great things on preventing burning of blanket bogs and then it did very little. Yesterday, Labour Peer, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, tabled a motion of Regret in the House of Lords to draw attention to the inadequacy of the government’s much delayed and much-caveated Statutory…

When I make the first cup of tea of the day at around 6am we have arrived at the time of year when I don’t have to turn a light on in the kitchen to accomplish this task. Indeed, if I step outside the back door while the kettle is boiling, or pause on the…

This is an interesting report in a local newsletter. I feel that, whatever the rights and wrongs of this particular case, this is a significant issue. Carrying out weak environmental assessments for developers is a gravy train.

Yesterday I highlighted a petition from Friends of the Earth and mentioned that the issue was important but the petition is accompanied by lots of irritating stuff where FoE ask for your details so that they can contact you in future. I much prefer the petition systems set up by the national parliaments across the…

Bumblebee Conservation Trust asks people across the UK to Bee the Change The Bumblebee Conservation Trust is on a mission to help everyone Bee the Change in their local area, with a new campaign launched today (18 March 2021) asking people across the UK to take simple, quick micro-actions to make their postcode more bumblebee-friendly. …