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  January 2014 – very dry in NW Scotland – v wet everywhere else – Met Office. Dredging – would it have helped?

I’m rubbish on nests.  I have been asked what species of bird made this nest and I haven’t really got a clue! Please help me out so I can look clever… It’s about 8cm in diameter (just over 3″ in old money).

The Derby City Council planning committee voted yesterday evening by a very narrow margin to approve its own application to destroy the Sanctuary Local Nature Reserve – a proposal that Chris Packham, rightly, described as a ‘vile act of wanton vandalism’. The voting was: Absent – 1 Labour councillor In favour – 5 Labour and…

A ‘Vision’ of what the Somerset Levels and Moors might look like in 2030, intended to guide water and land management policies over the years ahead, has been agreed by a Task Force set up last year to address the area’s problems. The Task Force includes representatives of farming, conservation, local authorities and Government agencies. …

This evening,  the Planning Committee of Derby City Council voted 6:5 in favour of the planning application that is a ‘vile act of wanton vandalism’ despite 1009 responses of opposition and 642 in favour. See previous blogs here, here, here and here. I’d be interested to know the political allegiances of those voting each way….