Turf wars: the battle against plastic grass
Back in spring 2019, horrified by the unimaginable loss of invertebrate biomass, I wrote in praise of minibeasts, and their
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The Ventilator
Incorporating The Ranger's Blog
Author: Cat James
Turkey vs Isle of Wight
I’m not usually one for holidaying abroad; climate emergency guilt clipping my wings before they’ve even fully fledged. But, last
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Brothers in arms, but where are the rest of us?
I’ve had various costumes in my time; from my days as a teenage punk to being a Mötley glam rocker,
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Why not free public transport for all?
This winter the government introduced a price cap of £2 on single bus fares to help with its cost of
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Passport to the polling booth
“Yer’ll need inoculations – and a passpor’!”, so goes that hoary leg-pull with which caulkheads tease prospective visitors to the
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A walk in the Wight forest
I heard them before I saw them. Shrieks of excited children pierced the woodland air as I squelched my way
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Taking the rap for society’s rapscallions
“Who farted?” The eight-year-old me looked up from her exercise book. All the children’s eyes, and now mine too, had
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Behind the scenes of the Isle of Wight
There are plenty of places on the Isle of Wight where access is denied to me, unless under special circumstances.
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Are our streets filled to car-pacity?
I recently attempted to park my modest two-door hatchback in the vicinity of a mate’s terraced house. The space directly
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Appy days are here again
I recently drove to Halifax to visit the spectacular Piece Hall. I found a parking space almost adjacent, but the
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