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a huge response to the tv drama about the post office scandal that saw hundreds of innocent branch managers wrongfully prosecuted for theft. well hear from one whos fought forjustice for 20 years. whilst there are some brighter skies ahead for us all there is still some rain in the forecast today particularly across the south, i will have your full forecast here on breakfast. its thursday 4th january. our main story. a row about emergency cover has broken out between nhs bosses and uni...

It was started by conservationist sir peter scott, who sat at this window meticulously painting the beaks of every swan. here is one of the bewicks swan books that peter worked on, and you can see here these beautiful drawings that he did of each individual bill pattern. and you can see that there are three perspectives that he painted for each swan. and thats the left and the right side, but also the front. this is one of the worlds longest running animal research projects. and the advantage of...

In the 1970s, there was sometimes more than 600. its numbers are plummeting very, very quickly and have been for quite some time. so just to give you an idea, in the mid—1990s, we were looking at around 29,000 birds in the population in europe. and now we think thats fewer than, there is fewer than 18,000. so welcome to the scott house museum. this is where the bill pattern study first started in 1963. this winter is the 60th anniversary of the bewick�*s swan survey. it was started by conser...