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Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Badgers at Bere Regis: Farmers, Badgers and Brian May


Controversy about badgers in Bere Regis, Louise Gray, The Telegraph

 Brian May on badgers and badger culls (BBC)

Dorset Echo, Brian May's environmental plans

Woodland Vision (BBC)

Update 20 May, 2013

Update May 25, 2013 (BBC)

Dorset Echo, 25 May

Update, December 16, 2016, BBC: Almost 11,000 badgers killed in 2016 TB bovine cull

More than 3,000 badgers killed in latest Dorset cull


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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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