Posts Tagged ‘NOrthumberland’
Three rare birds of prey have gone missing in Scotland
The RSPB has launched an appeal following the disappearance of three protected, satellite-tagged hen harriers in Scotland and Cumbria. These birds are some of the UK’s rarest birds of prey. The first to have gone missing is a hen harrier named Saorsa who has been monitored since she fledged last June. In February this year,…
Read MoreReturn of the osprey gets a stamp of approval
A celebration of the return to Scotland of the osprey is being marked in the form of a new stamp. The bird became extinct in the British Isles in 1916, but recolonised in 1954 and can primarily be found in Scotland. It is celebrated in a new series of Royal Mail stamps by award winning…
Read MoreAwards for game and conservation honour industry’s leading lights
The 2017 Purdey Awards were presented last week at a ceremony held in London gun and rifle maker James Purdey & Sons’ famous Long Room. The Gold Award was won by the Bywell Shoot, Northumberland, for their work in turning a reared pheasant shoot into a wild game shoot with a sustainable population of wild…
Read MoreViews wanted on historic bridge between Scotland and England
Members of the public are being invited to give their views on the Union Chain Bridge in the Borders as part of ambitious plans to safeguard its future. Scottish Borders Council (SBC), Northumberland County Council (NCC) and community group Friends of the Union Chain Bridge are jointly working on a £7.8m project to secure its…
Read MoreIt’s a long way..
to Murrayfield via Corbridge, and rather expensive when I’ve driven and seperately sent a horsebox with two staff to the point-to-point only for it to be called off at 11.30 because the ambulance couldn’t get round the inside of the course (was it 4WD I ask?). I sympathise with the organisers but after the previous…
Read MoreSnow doesn’t stop play!
The Trainer’s Blog Hello, let me introduce myself, I am Nick Alexander and I train about a dozen racehorses at Kinneston in East Kinross-shire on the edge of the Lomond Hills. The horses race on the Northern Jumping circuit – Kelso, Ayr, Musselburgh, Perth, Newcastle, Hexham and Carlisle with occasional forays to places like Haydock…
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