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Dear Peak District National Park This is a request under the Freedom of Information regulations, but in any case you should be happy to answer it. Please answer the following: Did the PDNP contact The Times newspaper by email, letter or telephone concerning Simon Barnes’s articles about raptor persecution in the Peak District?  I ask,…

A couple of weeks’ ago I attended a conference in Cambridge of the Cambridge Conservation Forum.  It was really quite interesting, but as with many conferences, the details are fading into the mush of my mind. That’s not to say it wasn’t a good conference – I enjoyed it a lot.  I’m not going to…

I received an email from someone I admire and trust last week and he (for it is a he) has agreed that I can quote him as follows:   Well done for stirring up on the subject of driven grouse-shooting. I have not been against this activity until recently but have substantially changed my opinion…

I’m getting very attached to the Peak District National Park.  The more time I spend there, the more I’d like to spend there. Last week I drove through the western side of the park, past signposts to Wildboarclough and then past the Goyt Valley, through Buxton (the Bath of the North? Or is Bath the…

Office of National Statistics, 29 May 2014: ‘The inclusion of illegal drugs and prostitution is likely to increase the level of GDP in 2009 by around £10 billion, around £5.3 billion attributable to prostitution and £4.4 billion attributable to illegal drugs.  In all years between 1997 and 2009 the impact ranges from £7 billion to…