John Berry

Ice hockey & Rugby league loving Community Bus driver on the Isle of Wight. Hate bloodsports and tories. All views are my own, unless they're retweets!

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Save Frank, Exeter Stagecoach’s Beloved Depot Cat - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/2XvVOs5mka via @UKChange

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Petition: Require all emergency services to record staff suicides https://t.co/eeucRfkEUd

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@CarlBovisNature Proud Robin is definitely a December photo. The other is stunning but No 1 just has that certain December "something "

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@globaleksen This is a blatant lie. This is Glasgow.

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@HealingPurrsPaw @Megdecat @KarenPr23715044 @ForTheLoveAlex Thank you so much, we are so touched by this gesture ❤️ 🙏 🐱

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Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. https://t.co/ivnOXvedtn via @38degrees

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@Hedgewatchers What a fabulous tour Brock & such neat writing.
Baby Rupert!🦡 We look forward to reading more about him in future weeks. How exciting.
Penny OTRB 2/1/26

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The government's Animal Welfare Strategy fails to provide meaningful protections for cats and kittens. I've added my name to the Cats Protection open letter. https://t.co/F00dInQnqk

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Save Freeview TV for Lynette and millions of others who depend on it! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/ZUZjGOmME6 via @UKChange

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Ban lion trophy hunting imports into the UK - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/IOBnujiUXM via @UKChange

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Ban lion trophy hunting imports into the UK - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/IOBnujiUXM via @UKChange

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@CarlBovisNature Oh I'd love that selection 😍

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Wild London David Attenborough
I'm getting so many posts from lovely people absolutely outraged at the misinformation regarding hedgehogs and slugs presented on this show yesterday, so I'll just address it here.
David Attenbourough is a really lovely man, and has done an immense amount of good for us, our wildlife, and our planet.
But he, like any other TV presenter, relies on programme researchers for script content.
The researchers, in turn, rely on who they *perceive to be* experts in the field.
Unfortunately, they were taken in by some clever branding and chose the wrong people:
A self-proclaimed 'hedgehog expert', often funded by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (see their most recent dangerous misinformation, and my response, published here:https://t.co/YWqTd4PIkv)
And the London Wildlife Trust.
Recently the London Wildlife Trust engaged me as an expert consultant on a 4 page spread article about hedgehog myths.
Many of you have seen my interview, and the draft of the subsequent article.
I was sent this draft (see 1st image below) for approval, to which I agreed.
However, before going to print, an executive at London Wildlife trust decided to do some editing of his own.
It's shocking, I know, and would be unbelievable, if not here in actual print.
I've included two versions of the full article below:
the first draft approved by me and the team at LWT, and the second actual printed version, after executive 'editing'.
It was this same London Wildlife Trust who co-produced the Wild London documentary and "provided expert help and advice".
So now you know.
We're all shocked.
But of course, as usual, it's the poor hedgehogs who will suffer.
People won't provide food for our critically endangered hedgehogs, or bother keeping their garden natural and wild, now they've been told that hedgehogs eat slugs.
After all, there's plenty of them to go round.
Rescues all around the country, who are treating hedgehogs dying of lungworm from being forced through starvation into eating slugs, will feel so demoralised and invalidated.
Like you, I'm furious, frustrated, and bone-wearily saddened.

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Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: https://t.co/khgImlvLhz

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🚨The Gov could FINALLY be about to end fox hunting for good, by banning trail hunting. But the likes of Farage are criticising the ban. We need to drown them out: sign the petition now to back the ban and tell the Government to hold firm: https://t.co/UVwstbmQFH

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@carrotcottagerr Hello🐇🐰 I've seen many of your Posts through the cats I follow on #Hedgewatch. I'm appalled at what's gone on so very happy to now be supporting and following you. I've reported said individual to @X but the report has been dismissed. 🤬

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@BBCRadio3 well that was absolutely awful. What a way to ruin a Saturday morning. No, I won't be looking for more jazz to listen to.

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Support a New Hunting Act to Finally End Fox Hunting - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/90DE0MTHhO via @UKChange