Two sad losses

This week two of my former colleagues at the RSPB have passed away: Roy Taylor and John Lanchbery.  They were both wonderful colleagues full of knowledge and good humour.  They probably didn’t have huge amounts in common apart from their dedication to the environmental cause and their expertise and commitment to it. Roy Tayler.  Photo:…

YFTB are back!

Photo: At a meeting of trade unions (1996) by Ion Chibzii from Chisinau, Moldova. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons You Forgot the Birds is back  with a new website with new errors and they have sponsored (does that simply mean bought?) a ‘story’ on the Guido Fawkes website. There is nothing new…

Thor thunders no more

RSPB press relase. Hen Harrier chick Thor – now ‘disappeared’.  Photo: Steve Downing First Bowland hen harrier chick in three years vanishes without trace Thor was one of 13 chicks to fledge from Bowland, Lancashire for the first time in three years. The rare chick is the latest in a number of hen harriers to…

#justice4henharriers

As I’ve said before, my work for our upcoming court case (save the date 5 and 6 December in the Royal Courts of Justice) comes in pulses.  I am now in a pulse where I am reading drafts and preparing a witness statement. Our legal team at LeighDay are very clever and a delight to…