English Bluebell leaves have broken ground 🫠
Six days earlier than last season. We can’t say ‘last year’ given they are so early it’s still the same year
I took him to the Rudston Monolith and then we went to the famous hunter-gatherer site of Star Carr where we meet a farmer who showed us her flint collection - here two Bronze Age barbed-and-tanged arrowheads and an Early Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowhead.
Revealed: tax loophole exempts 355 landowners from inheritance tax - including huge grouse moor estates & pheasant shoots
I FOI'd HMRC for details & found this tax break is worth *at least* £68m & likely far more
@RachelReevesMP please fix this! 1/
https://t.co/zPlvBLRJY4
On the hill yesterday, challenged by gamekeeper...
GK: Are you lost?
Me: No.
GK: But this is private land.
Me: It's a NP, most of it is.
GK: then you can't come this way.
Me: It's Access Land.
GK: It's a conservation area.
Me: Conserving what?
GK: Er... gamebirds.
Me: 🤷♂️
A year ago the @HolkhamEstate with the @N_Rivers_Trust & Charles Rangeley Wilson embarked on a project to reconnect an ancient chalk stream back to the floodplain
This is the result, amazing what you can achieve when you work collectively allow nature some space
Writing about nature, in an age of climate emergency and eco-anxiety, is more critical than ever says author @jamescanton of @LiFTS_at_Essex.
He talks about inspiring the next generation of nature writers in our MA in Wild Writing course.
https://t.co/hUtJjuIJwU