WATCH: Red Kite steals park-goers picnic food A Red Kite has been captured stealing visitor s food at a popular Marlow park. The video sees the Red Kite flying low to the ground at Higginson park before taking park-goers food. Once a rare sight only found in Wales, the bird of prey was successfully reintroduced in several areas of the UK, including the Chilterns, in a bid to save it from extinction. Largely scavengers, Red Kites usually eat carrion and scraps but there have been reports of them attacking families and walkers in search of food.
Watch the video here: In 2019, the Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust warned that some Red Kites are becoming tame because people keep feeding them.
Clay Hill ward needs a fresh start, says Green candidate Ed Cawley Our Green Party councillors have shown they make a real difference
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NEWBURY Greens have named local campaigner and volunteer Ed Cawley as their candidate for the Newbury Town Council by-election in Clay Hill ward.
Mr Cawley lives in Clay Hill with his partner Sarah and is involved in the local community as a Cub Scout leader, a charity fundraiser and a volunteer driver for Meals on Wheels.
He also has an allotment in Clay Hill.
He has taken part in two Tough Mudder events – gruelling obstacle races through mud – to raise money for Mind and Action Against Hunger, and in November he did 3,000 push-ups to raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Controversial plans to build homes next to the site that inspired CS Lewis to create the magical kingdom of Narnia sparked a row that has gone on for almost five years in Oxford and caused an outcry nationally and internationally. Now the application to build nine flats with 22 parking spaces and an access road alongside the CS Lewis Nature Reserve in Risinghurst has been withdrawn. But campaigners only cautiously welcomed news that charitable trust the Wychwood Foundation had dropped proposals, which had been recommended for refusal, shortly before the city council’s east area planning committee meeting. Leading opponent Cara Langford, who grew up in Risinghurst, collected almost 6,000 signatories for one petition and through an associate in the US nearly 2,000 for another.