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The Guardian website is running this story ahead of tomorrow’s Observer. It states that the National Trust, Yorkshire Water and United Utilities have all put major restrictions on routine heather burning as practised by grouse shooting interests, and not just for this year. It is of course notable that these three landowners have the public…

High Court dismisses application for HS2 judicial review The High Court has today dismissed an application for permission for judicial review of the Prime Minister’s decision to proceed with the HS2 railway project, and a related interim injunction to halt enabling and clearanceworks relating to HS2. Mr Packham, represented by law firm Leigh Day, was…

Wrens are tiny – you’d get 45 Wrens to the lb and 100 to the kg – and yet they have a hell of a song. If a Robin sounds as though it is singing to another Robin about 10 feet away then a Wren sounds as though it is trying to reach the whole…

Yesterday evening at 8pm I stood outside my house and clapped. I didn’t do this last week as somehow I missed the fact that it was happening. I was early, I’m always early, I got to the gig at 7:59pm and there was already one guy, down the road, clapping away so I joined in….