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Sunday book review – Climate Change and British Wildlife by Trevor Beebee

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This is an appropriately weighty book on a portentous subject. It is very attractively produced with many photographs of wildlife, habitats and people and a fine looking jacket by Carry Akroyd (although the jacket on my copy is slightly ill-fitting).  The index is very good but the reference list is rather shorter than I expected….

Tim Melling – Lesser Whitethroat

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Tim writes: Not your classic full-on bird portrait but this is the kind of view you tend to get of Lesser Whitethroat.  This was really difficult to capture through a tiny gap in the foliage.  They usually skulk about in bushes unless you catch them singing in the spring.  This one was collecting insects to…

NE ‘compliance’ and information requests

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I sent this to NE this morning; The ICO guidance to public bodies on Time Limits for Compliance states that bodies such as NE should be able ‘account for, and justify, the length of time taken to meet the obligation’ when the ‘authority complies close to, or on, the final day of the 20 working…

A response from NE

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Here is a response from NE to an information request from myself to follow up an earlier one. We discover not very much in the first answer, and that the MoU has not been renewed a year after it expired from the second answer. This is another example of an information request, a pretty straight…