Today contractors from National Grid turned up at this farm ready to clear all of this vegetation, including the four oaks, without the required dawn bird survey.
It is only because the land owner was on his toes and challenged them that they left.
Plus National Grid has not explained why it is ‘not practicable’ to uphold their DCO obligation to avoid nesting season.
They were not even able to explain why the oaks need to be felled for a bell mouth when they do not cause visibility issues.
This is a horrific disregard for nature.
(This is Bramford to Twinstead, ‘only’ 30km long. Imagine the destruction if Norwich to Tilbury at 180km goes ahead as proposed. We seek underground HVDC laid by cable ploughs for N2T)
Ancient trees and woodlands have minimal protection compared to what they should have.
We need new national legal and planning protections similar to listed building status.
https://t.co/NxuM2h8NLy
Join us on the 28th to scrap the reservation charge! We now have a poster complete with a QR code that links to our petition. Please sign.
The libraries charge petition will also be found here https://t.co/ANIA8ysX4J
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@MartinSLewis I once went home from school because I had an ulcer at the back of my throat and it was so painful. My tutor wanted to give me a detention because he said I couldn't just go home using an ulcer as an excuse. Clearly he was someone who hadn't known the misery of having one.
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Why the silence on this @networkrail? In the face of increasing public anger? These birds will have travelled around 14,000 miles when they return to their nesting holes - only to find them blocked up. Nature is increasingly squeezed into ever-shrinking spaces, forced to fit around our sprawling network of transport and housing and commerce. Please act NOW to rectify your thoughtless actions!
https://t.co/E8PFLTCUcH
This week the NHS will undergo one of the most radical – and scandalous - changes in its history. From 1st April (the public are the fools in this), GPs will be contractually obliged to seek remote, electronic “advice and guidance” from hospital ‘clinicians’ (note, not necessarily doctors), making it even harder for patients to see a hospital specialist.
Does this sound part of a plan to genuinely ‘fix’ the NHS, as Wes Streeting vowed he would do so effusively when taking up office - or more like a tactic to ration hospital care by overriding GPs in order to massage the waiting list figures?
It is, of course, the latter, an extra layer of bureaucracy that at best will delay patients’ access to the specialist treatment they need, at worse sacrifice those patients on the altar of fake news about “falling” waiting lists.
You don’t need me to point out the patient safety risks it potentially entails. We all know that time, in medicine, can be everything. The Royal College of GPs has been crystal clear: “The use of advice and guidance should not be mandated in any area… We have heard reports of risks of delays, with tests being required before any referral, lost messages and staff without appropriate senior clinical oversight handling requests.”
The aim, says the Times, is to reduce the number of hospital outpatient appointments by 30 million annually. And the government, in a really quite breathtaking example of political spin, is presenting this as “good” for patients - as though all those people who’ve been waiting years months or even years for the first Rheumatology, Neurology or Orthopaedics appointment they so desperately need are just, you know, malingering. (I recently spoke to a patient with a new diagnosis of multiple sclerosis who’d been waiting over six months to see a neurologist for the first time – simply scandalous.)
I believe this is a national health scandal from a government that apparently cares more about good spin than it does about good patient care.
If you feel the same, please – please – write to your MP or the Secretary of State and tell them why. Please shout about this online, in the press, anywhere you can. Don’t let this slide. Thank you.
Today, Denby has formally appointed administrators. We want to reassure customers that our stores & website continue to trade. We are desperately sad for those affected & want to thank our community for the support. The search for investors continues: https://t.co/6W1D10P655
Every phone call I've taken this week has broken my heart a little bit more.
So much unnecessary suffering.
Please spread this information, as far and wide as you can.
You may save a life.
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A hedgehog *out in the open* in the day is in serious trouble and needs urgent help.
Always.
No exceptions.
Any size.
Any time.
Hedgehogs are nocturnal prey animals, they have no defences in the daytime, it's deadly dangerous for them.
They are designed to hunt at night, to navigate and catch insects in the dark, occupying a specific ecological niche.
They are not adapted to withstand high temperatures, and their shape means they rapidly dehydrate during daylight hours.
They are nocturnal animals.
So they don't come out in the day simply because they're hungry, or lost, or disturbed, or to move nests, or are pregnant, or for any other trivial reason.
They come out in the day because it's warmer than the night and they are feeling cold.
Deadly cold.
They're feeling cold because they're so sick they're starting to die, and hypothermia is a stage of dying. Blood has been redirected to the vital organs, keeping them alive as long as possible, leaving the limbs feeling cold.
If you see a hedgehog like this, out in the open, in the day time, no matter how 'well' he looks, it is an emergency.
Every minute counts.
DO NOT put them in a box and keep them, feeding them, not calling a rescue for advice for 3 days until their agony and infection is too much for them to bear and they stop moving.
DO NOT feed them then move them under a bush because you think they shouldn't be in the sun, leaving them, utterly defenceless, to be predated alive there.
DO NOT take them to a vet, none of whom are trained in wildlife and will simply put to sleep even viable wild animals.
Please take them to a rescue (never a vet) URGENTLY.
Just Google 'hedgehog rescue near me' to find a list.
More info: https://t.co/I1vcAnWv1t
"Mersea councillor raises concerns over sewage pollution."
I can help councillor Carl Powling with this one.
The four constituencies surrounding Mersea Island spent a grand total of 18,075 hours on 2,156 occasions dumbing sewage into the Blackwater estuary and seas around the island. 🤔
https://t.co/P4Yy9MLRyp
"Water companies are ruining our seaside — prison is the only deterrent."
Cracking idea but here's the thing. The Environment Agency already has the power to bring prosecutions resulting in a maximum jail sentence of 5 years, unlimited fines, and under the Proceeds of Crime Act confiscation orders.
How many water company executives do you think have ever been investigated never mind prosecuted by the EA?
https://t.co/Mx3eCdDswM