Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
Let’s look after our threatened hedgehogs
PETER FROST reflects on our rapidly diminishing population of one of his favourite British wild mammals
AN URGENT phone call from Sophie, a friend of mine, last week had some very good news.
Her hedgehog house, which I helped to built last summer, had not just survived but she had seen the first hedgehog emerged from hibernation.
No hoglets yet but any babies probably won’t appear until June or July. We can only hope.
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