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Press release – Together Against Sizewell C (TASC)

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TOGETHER AGAINST SIZEWELL C (TASC) COMMITTEE MEMBER SEEKS A JUDICIAL REVIEW OF EAST SUFFOLK COUNCIL’S PLANNING APPROVAL FOR EDF TO FELL CORONATION WOOD FOR SIZEWELL C PURPOSES On 23rd December TASC member Joan Girling issued proceedings against East Suffolk Council’s decision granting planning permission to EDF for the development of a nuclear power site in…

More reading over the Christmas break

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Spiny Lobsters, Breckland moths, Little Terns and articles about future land use and changing naturalists as well as some regular favourites, of which by greatest favourite is the ancient and wise Twitcher in the Swamp.

January Birdwatch

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Much as I love Christmas, I was pleased that the January Birdwatch dropped through the letter box this morning. You may find me slipping away to a quiet place in the house to read it over the next few days. No spoilers here but the winners of the Birders’ Awards are all very worthy winners….

Letter to my MP

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Dear Mr Pursglove I must write to congratulate you on your return as my MP and with a significantly increased majority. I voted for your main opponent in the election, Beth Miller, but I still wish you well in parliament. However, I do have several concerns about the direction that the Johnson government is going…

From the Guardian…

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Sir Stephen Houghton, the Labour leader of Barnsley council, said … there needed to be a review of whether agricultural practices upstream, such as the burning of heather moorland and removal of peat, were causing rainwater to rush downstream and rivers to burst their banks in residential areas. PM urged to overhaul flood defence funding…

Guest blog – Woodland Musing 1 by Louise Bacon

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As a volunteer, I spend about a day a week from late October through to Easter cutting down trees. ‘Shock horror!’ say the urban tree-huggers. Actually, I could equally have written that I spend a day a week engaged in the traditional rural craft of coppicing.  I prefer to think of it as the latter….