What do you think of birds of prey?

Amy is a third-year student at Nottingham Trent University, studying for her BSc Wildlife Conservation degree. She has created this questionnaire to determine public perceptions of birds of prey in Northern Ireland compared to England. The data received will be analysed and interpreted for my dissertation. All returned questionnaires will be completely anonymous, so please…

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Do you remember campaigns about using seat belts, not drinking and driving, sticking to speed limits and how to cross the road safely? I do. Do you remember a media campaign telling us that new coins were arriving and that there would soon be 100 pennies to the pound rather than 240 of them (yes…

Struck down

Mark Avery is a man with a stinking cold – possibly terminal. Normal service will resume soon, probably tomorrow, because he is very brave

To be fair…

Ryanair has a bit of an image problem even though its planes are packed! Just because portions of the population think that Ryanair would charge you for breathing if they could get away with it doesn’t mean that they don’t fly to places that people want to go (or just down the road from them…

State of Nature report 2019

The launch on Channel 4 News was a good idea, but the ‘sitting in a barn’ bit was pretty poor really, just all over the place. The whole thing was rescued by the young people! Well done Jess Nicholls, Mya-Rose Craig, Sophie Pavelle, Dan Rouse, Bella Lack and (token male) James Miller! Their messages were…

#HS2NoThankYou

At least 200 of us, and scores of trees, gathered by Euston Station yesterday afternoon to protest the habitat destruction which may be caused by HS2 – if it goes ahead. But, actually, even if it doesn’t because habitat loss is going ahead while the whole project is under review. You can’t replace an ancient…

See you later today?

[Ralph Underhill has been on holiday but will be back next week]

Repeal the Weeds Act of 1959

I’d really like to see this e-petition get over the 10,000 signature barrier and trigger a government response. It and all other open e-petitions on the parliament website probably have until mid-October (and the start of a general election campaign) before they will be automatically curtailed. But it is, I’m sure you will agree, a…