Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting

I’ll be in Sheffield tomorrow and Saturday at the conference where I expect to have a lovely time amongst GWCT, Moorland Association, BASC and Scottish Land and Estates staff. In case they’ve missed it, here is how the constituencies with over 300 signatures stand: Calder Valley 828 High Peak  549 Bristol West  503 Ross, Skye…

I’m rather proud of this – many people have got us this far – but only I get this email. OK – that’s enough feeling pleased – lots of hard work ahead! Let’s see how high we can get the signature total by midnight on 20 September (two weeks today) – get all your friends…

I had an email this afternoon confirming that the House of Commons Petitions Committee has agreed to schedule a debate on our e-petition! The date is not yet confirmed and we’ll have to wait a while for that, but the important thing is that there will be a debate in the Westminster parliament on the…

How does shooting grouse for fun connect with the misery of having your home or business flooded? It’s no coincidence that the constituency that has provided the most signatures for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is the Calder Valley (Craig Whittaker MP, 762 signatures).  Calder Valley has been flooded several times in recent…

I thought hard about whether or not to launch a third e-petition on the subject of banning driven grouse shooting – and then I did. The current e-petition closes at midnight in two weeks time – and started five and a half months ago. I have no idea how many times I have refreshed the…