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We just received this email at work - we think that whoever wrote it could have quite a good career as a comedian as it did make us laugh. Hello xxxxx I am David Ramsden, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. I am writing to you about a fixed deposit made by a Late (deceased) customer of my bank who died without any next of kin/heir to the 19.5 Million British Pounds which was deposited with Our bank...I need your cooperation and assistance so the fund can be claimed. I look forward to your positive reply on this, so we can claim the funds together. I will further explain in detail as soon as I get your positive response. Cordial Regards.

I am with Terry on this one. Over the years on pretty much all farms, farmers have tried different ways of preventing crop damage. Anything new on the market gets tried and some even work locally for a short while such as the firework type rocket bangers with whizzy stars. However, so far, all such efforts have either proven to be ineffectual or non-economic in the long term hence the recognition with the General Licences that preventing damage is impossible but the amount of damage can be mitigated by a general reduction in numbers of specified pest species which are currently increasing in numbers and under no threat. Obviously prevention of the damage is what is required and so reducing numbers prior to drilling and in the case of OSR and many other brassicas, prior to emergence is allowed under the general licence. There is no close season stipulated hence control can take place all year round. That would be my defence for shooting a pigeon or corvid flying over the farm - nothing to do with a pot shot at all.

is that per day?

Despite being a relatively rich country our pot is not limitless. I am saddened that we are not able to give more effective help to the folk that are already here that really need it due to the dilution of the pot by extremely selfish economic migrants who do not follow the correct channels for entry. Thinking ahead a little the potential over the next few months is that we are going to need every penny we can lay our hands on. Put the illegal channel crossers straight back on the next ferry - no ifs no buts. Genuine refugees will register in the first safe country they come to. After all this time why the EU has not sorted out a simplified refugee system where genuine refugees are spread in equal proportion amongst member countries, whichever safe country they come to first, suggests another agenda to me

In some areas it would be cheaper to replace a tap than have a plumber sitting in his van reading the paper for 2 hours - just sayin

With respect folks I beg to differ, fit on a rifle is even more important than fit on a shotgun - you do not have a spread of bullets creating a margin for error and creating point of impact error is far easier to achieve than most folks realise with erratic fit. If woodland stalking for cull deer you often have little time to set up, assess safety and take the shot - especially on muntjac - so having consistently practised gunfit is vital. I am not saying that shots should be hurried or ill considered at all - just that sometimes you only just have enough time. Thanks for the vid Vinnie, I enjoyed it

Very sadly I do not think that most would choose game at all

I found when using something similar that a spiral dog tether is the best thing to run the string through to change its direction as it dont move if you can get it in the ground - I also cobbled together a foot pedal - if you are brave you can heat the wings up and bend them so they pick up on the wind more - with a good wind and setting them at the right angle you can sometimes get enough movement not to bother pulling the string at all. You might need to just ease the slots the wings go in to as it makes the up and down movement easier, you can also attach some wheel balancing leads to balance the wings a bit - it all makes for more movement for less effort. I tried braid but it picks up a lot of crud and tangles easily - in the end I settled on the orange plastic builders twine as having not too much stretch.

'The 200m rule recognises that lead is not a problem away from waterways.' 'except the .410' BASC you need to talk to New Zealand

Thanks Jaymo

Should be ideal for you Steve - and a good price too - if you do not want it I would be interested snarepeg

far fewer humans has to be number one - the only real long term solution

I hope you all enjoy your holiday. I suspect that you might have one or two challenges to overcome but some research on unhooking fish on you tube will at least give you a start - everyone unhooked their first pike once upon a time. In any case holiday challenges are character building and can be the source for much exaggerated tale telling later on. When I landed about my hundreth pike, at just over 17lbs - I thought I knew what I was doing by then and so the temptation to grab a short pair of forceps to 'just' nip out the one part of a treble that was just hanging on to the scissors overcame me - the pike flicked his head at the movement or the pressure which resulted in a painless incision down to the bone of my index finger by one of its long side teeth. This required 2 trips to hospital as they treated it as a dog bite, washed it out with hydroxide then left it open for 2 days to make sure there was no infection The second trip resulted in 14 micro stitches to close the wound and a 1 inch scar. which reminds me to this day not to get complacent - I purchased the longest set of forceps that I could

Has anyone installed a battery powered, wireless ip camera with motion sensor monitoring their cabinet(s) with a mobile phone notification if the sensor is triggered? If yes (hopefully) any makes/models to go for or avoid?

Absolutely spot on - I have signed this one https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300071 - I would have a higher tariff still but a 2 year custodial would be a start

It may be brown rot that you have advice here https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=114#:~:text=Brown rot-,Brown rot,the flowers and fruit spurs.

Maybe we need 2 new laws with tariffs up to the same as murder 1. Deliberately endangering life 2. Deliberately aiding and abetting endangering life The laws would not only act as a bridge between manslaughter and murder but would also cover such things as attacks on our emergency services and their equipment and other cases of idiocy like driving at 60mph past a school, dropping something from a motorway bridge, placing something on railway tracks and bosses that put profit before safety. My thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues and with the person who's quad it was, they will all be affected by this for life. I would hope that the judge wipes out any credit for pleading guilty due to the complete lack of remorse.

From the testimonials page - do they seriously expect us to believe this? "The .22 reloader saved me about $150,000 over the course of a year!" Matt Emmons Try to order and very conveniently they are having an e-commerce problem - just send them your email address and name - well only do this if you are using a disposable email address and false name in my opinion

I have always found a pickup the most useful for around the farm for fencing and general jobbing - you can find decent enough l200's for under £3000 and you will sell it for nigh on what you pay for it when the time comes as they are bombproof - whatever you get there is no point in having 4wd if you do not have diff lock and good ground clearance

spot on - I would rather spend less on a car and have comfortable feet 😉

My belief is that the vast majority of folk that live in this country, however long they have been here and from whatever roots, just want a safe place to live and work and will have absolutely no objection to a strong and robust set of treason laws. The few that will have an issue, unlike some regimes, also have the choice to leave freely, whenever they wish.

I have contacted the GWCT and I shall be removing my membership support of them if the unsubstantiated claims are not removed. It is very disappointing that the GWCT, who have always claimed to only produce material based on hard evidence have dropped so low in their standards. As to evidence, is not the evidence I presented and linked to with real life figures not evidence enough? If not in what way is it not valid. For all statistics to be meaningful and not just made up cobblers to suit an agenda you need a large, verifiable data set. When being taught statistics, it comes to light that samples as low as 20 can, very conveniently, be deemed meaningful in the statistics world - well it keeps statisticians gainfully employed doing chi-squared validation tests. It also means that those of us that have studied statistics in some depth can spot made up rubbish a mile off.

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Sorry Connor, but that is a ridiculous thing to say. We are not questioning that lead shot can affect wildfowl. We are very much questioning the figures as stated as they are estimated figures and there is no empirical evidence that they are correct. Yet they are now being constantly quoted as correct. I suggest you go and have a word with your wildfowling department and get another view. Please do a survey and ask them whether they still use lead shot at all wildfowling and then publish the percentage figure that do here - gather some real evidence yourself. Here are some actual completely independent figures for you - the percentages of a statistically valid data set seem to be rather at odds with other data that has been published as a percentage with no reference to the size of data set used nor when the data was collected http://www.theswansanctuary.org.uk/lead-poisoning-in-swans/ Currently out of a yearly throughput of 3000 Mute swans we treat about 6 per month (around 72 per year) for lead poisoning. This is in contrast to before the Control of Pollution ( Angler’s Lead weights) Regulations 1986 when 86% of cases required treatment For lead poisoning (although the yearly throughput was lower). Many of our wildfowl are migratory - the evidence about where in the world they are ingesting lead seems to be conveniently overlooked. I for one am very pleased that I stopped using lead shot for angling as I like swans, just as I am absolutely sure that the vast majority of wildfowlers are using non-lead as they also happen to like and respect their quarry.

I also turn out to help with RTA's - if the animal or any part of it is on the highway it could possibly cause an accident and you may therefore and should call 999 - whether the animal is alive or dead. If you wish to deal with the situation yourself and consider that you have a suitable skill level and have a suitable firearm with you (so far on highway call outs a .410 has always been quite sufficient but technically for humane dispatch you can use most firearms - even a .22lr with subs but a sub 12 air rifle would not be considered humane ) Until such time as you have an incident number you are not deemed to have 'lawful authority' to discharge a firearm on a public highway, or even to have a loaded firearm on the highway. The operations room will usually send an officer(s) to deal with traffic control and you will have to wait for them but they are usually sensible and pragmatic and in AVB's situation above they may well say get on with it. Many counties now have trained officers and do their own HD so you may just be thanked for your call.