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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…

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…

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…

This image, from a walker, shows moorland burning a few days ago on Forest of Bowland grouse moors. This burn was on the slopes of Conder Head. Now, the Duke of Westminster’s Abbeystead Estate has signed up to the voluntary agreement not to burn blanket bog – so was this a transgression? According to this…