Letter to my MP

Dear Mr Pursglove You must be pleased that our constituency of Corby, the East Midlands, England, and the UK all voted for a Brexit.  Personally, I was gutted by the result.  I read your Westminster newsletter with interest and I must commend you on the way that you wrote about the result; very calm, very…

That was fun!

I’ve been out for a couple of days with two of my friends: Henry and Chris Packham. We’ve been making films.   More on this later – for sure.

North Yorks Police – we’ll let you off.

Many have received the following communication from North Yorks Police after their investigation into the cautioning of a gamekeeper employed on the Mossdale Estate near Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales National Park for an offence involving the setting of poletraps.   You wrote to us recently to complain about our decision to caution a man,…

M&S AGM

Marks and Spencer – your AGM is a week tomorrow. Please can you tell us all whether you really are planning to sell Red Grouse meat in your stores this autumn or whether we ought to start a boycott of M&S goods now? M&S claims to have an industry-leading code of practice for game meat…

Oscar Dewhurst – Barn Owl

Oscar writes:  I finished my second year university exams in Durham about a month ago, and was in Suffolk for 10 days soon after that to do some photography. One of the birds I spent most time photographing was Barn Owls which were hunting in some fields either side of a small road. Luckily they…