The week before last there was copious coverage of driven grouse shooting before, on and after the inglorious 12th in the media – quite a lot of that was on BBC channels. This post is about how the BBC handled it and whether or not they were fair. I’d give the BBC only 5 out…
Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
116,000+ signatures
We’ve passed 116,000 signatures and as I go to sleep we are close to 117,000. Woohoo!!! Here’s a list of all the constituencies over 350 signatures: Calder Valley 741 High Peak 538 Ross, Skye and Lochaber 493 Bristol West 485 Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey 459 Derbyshire Dales 450 Sheffield Central 429 Skipton and Ripon…
Leaflets – a massive thank you.
At the Bird Fair, over 11,000 leaflets were taken away for delivery around the country (certainly England and Wales). I’m grateful to those of you who will be walking the streets and delivering these leaflets over the next few weeks – thank you and every signature counts. I met karl (sic) and Dave at the…
You are wonderful – Firm Briefing 3 (update)
Yesterday, I spent most of my time responding to, and filing, emails from you lovely people saying that you had written to your MP. Thank you! Every time I thought I had dealt with the backlog built up over the Bird Fair weekend I looked again and there were some more emails. Thank you again!…
Henry at the Bird Fair
Here are some more images of the world’s favourite Hen Harrier at the Bird Fair fraternising with a whole bunch of suspected eco-zealots. Wildsounds and author Prof Tim Birkhead (review of The Most Perfect Thing here). Thanks to Duncan and team for some great book signings during the Bird Fair. Eco-zealots’ favourite magazine? Here Henry…