They become instead another toxic disposal problem. Industrial fish farming is bad enough in coastal areas, in the middle of England, next to a river that already struggles with pollution - it’s an obscene idea, a pursuit of profit over all other considerations and Wiltshire Council needs to stop it

A good read, as always.

Worse still, Drax claims the trees arrive in Britain entirely carbon free, and burning them makes ‘green’ - who are they kidding? Perhaps the biggest greenwash Britain has ever suffered. Time to end it.

I regularly use the Merlin app. It helped me to identify a Goldcrest the other morning.

If you take a walk along the Swift from Stoke, passing the almost permanent tankering from a sewer manhole, then through St Mary Bourne to the sewage pumping station which often also has tankers lining up waiting the tanker away), I suspect Vitacress isn’t the problem threatening the Swift.