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Residents in Albert Street fear plans for nine homes could “make an already very poor situation worse”.

On Monday, 27 February, the woodcock shooting season was debated in Parliament as a result of a petition from Wild Justice that garnered over 100,000 signatures. The petition called for a statutory change so that the season would start on 1 December, citing the fact that the GWCT, and other shooting organisations, had already called for a voluntary delay. Commenting on this during the debate, North Herefordshire MP Sir Bill Wiggin said: “If both sides agree that woodcock are special and should not really be shot until mid-November or the beginning of December, why do we need to legislate? We...

With 104,000 votes and counting, the Wild Justice petition to shorten the woodcock shooting season has reached the 100,000 threshold needed to trigger a parliamentary debate. At the time of writing, no date has been fixed, but Westminster must now consider whether it is right to delay the start of the woodcock season to 1 December, reducing it to just two months each winter. The idea of not shooting woodcock before the end of November is not new; the GWCT began to suggest this in areas where there are breeding woodcock as a voluntary measure about five years ago. While there is no evidence tha...

Ryan L. Erickson, age 63, of rural Blomkest, passed away unexpectedly, Thursday evening, May 12, from injuries received in a weather-related accident while serving in the line of duty with the Blomkest Fire Department.