Spiders by post – that’s got to be cruel, hasn’t it?
In a bizarre news item, the BBC reports: A man has admitted sending a rare venomous spider in a package to a colleague at work. Mahlon Hector, 22, of Leicester
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Is there a legal right to collect firewood?
Round about this time of year The Ranger always gets a query or two about firewood. There’s the idea going around, rather conveniently, that there is a legal right for
Read moreVillage Greens: the Oxfordshire ‘Trap Grounds’ case is decided at last
This one’s complicated but do try to keep up. Land can be registered as a town or village green if it has been used by local people for’lawful sports and
Read moreHow dare trees ‘self-seed’ themselves?
What is it with people and ‘self-seeded’ trees? If you read this newspaper article you’ll read of a very common situation across the country, this time in Middlesborough. It will
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