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RolloTheRed | Report | 13 Jul 2017 12:04 |
Wild boar, wallaby, wild cat, beaver, lynx, grey squirrel, avocet, great bustard, mink, Badger, otter, Fox, hedgehog, toads , adder, rat, roe deer, sitka deer, fallow deer, birds of prey, seagulls, seals, killer whale, sharks..... Which are your friends among UK fauna which are in your gunsights or at the end of a gaff? |
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Rambling | Report | 13 Jul 2017 13:19 |
Recognising that some of the above were introduced and have caused havoc to native species, none of them would be in my gunsights. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 13 Jul 2017 13:42 |
wildlife is successfully reclaiming Chernobyl. The Ukraine is doing something sensible by installing a v large solar energy plant while leaving wildlife to get on with it. |
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Dermot | Report | 13 Jul 2017 15:15 |
Leave the burnt-out Grenfell Tower as it is. Time & decay, aided by wildlife perhaps, might provide a lesson of the futility & limitation of imaginative human endeavours. |
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Rambling | Report | 13 Jul 2017 15:29 |
.....and the sheer misery for the survivors who would ( and are) having to look at it day in day out, and remember the anguish and the agony of those who died? |
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Dermot | Report | 13 Jul 2017 15:37 |
Dozens pass by our local cemetery and, no doubt, some will remember family/relatives lying peacefully under headstones of various designs. |
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Rambling | Report | 13 Jul 2017 15:46 |
IMO That's very different Dermot. |
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Caroline | Report | 13 Jul 2017 15:55 |
At the end of the day will anything really replace it enough to make everyone content? |
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Rambling | Report | 13 Jul 2017 16:05 |
I am all for being practical ( it was Sharron who mentioned shrubs and butterflies hence my suggesting a garden) but the foot print of the building is probably too small to accommodate many low rise properties although it's perfectly possible that the other blocks nearby will also have to be altered (if not pulled down entirely at some point) for anyone to feel safe in them. |
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Caroline | Report | 13 Jul 2017 16:13 |
Agreed it can't be left it is unsafe. |
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Rambling | Report | 13 Jul 2017 16:20 |
Or, make it a cemetery, there may be no remains as such left on the site, and given the toxic elements in the dust and ashes I doubt that it could remain in situ even if covered in fresh soil, but headstones could be erected for all those known to have died and for the unknown 'missing'. |
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Caroline | Report | 13 Jul 2017 16:53 |
Again though as housing is in such short supply would it be acceptable to use that much space like that? Nice idea but |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 13 Jul 2017 17:00 |
I expect developers have sent in plans for luxury flats on the site already :-( |
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AnninGlos | Report | 13 Jul 2017 17:25 |
Maybe it should be some sort of memorial, Not sure plants would thrive if the soil is toxic but given so many died (who knows the real number, nobody seems to), a memorial might comfort those left and also remind those in power of the error of somebody's ways in cost cutting. |
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Rambling | Report | 13 Jul 2017 17:25 |
https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/idoxWAM/doc/Other-960664.pdf?extension=.pdf&id=960664&location=VOLUME2&contentType=application/pdf&pageCount=1 |
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Inky1 | Report | 13 Jul 2017 21:56 |
Extract from the Gloucester article:- |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 14 Jul 2017 09:55 |
We have lots of wild boar (sanglier) in Normandie. They are very intelligent. For the most part they keep to the woods and forests though there are renegades. The boars can be very large but are not usually aggressive. It is wise when driving on back country roads to be cautious as a car/boar collision will be v bad news for the car. A sow will stand her ground while a dozen stripey young cross the road giving no option but to wait. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 16 Jul 2017 16:11 |
Just come on the say that the 'wild boar' supposedly seen in Gloucester town was later thought to be a pot bellied pig. However, I have been away for the weekend and have not seen the follow up so will have to check that out. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 16 Jul 2017 16:11 |
Just come on the say that the 'wild boar' supposedly seen in Gloucester town was later thought to be a pot bellied pig. However, I have been away for the weekend and have not seen the follow up so will have to check that out. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 16 Jul 2017 16:15 |
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