A reminder an HGV driver wrote to me. He delivers live animals to abattoirs & describes the places as sadistic, vile & depraved cruelty. Halal slaughter should be banned immediately. "David I need to remain anonymous to keep my job as I work for a large multinational that are very PC/woke and me getting involved in any sort of discussion like this would cost me my job. "I’ve worked previously as a HGV driver delivering livestock to slaughterhouses. In the build up to Ramadan the company I worked for made sheep deliveries to halal slaughterhouses up and down the country. "We’d always deliver after dark and the loading bays would be full of Muslim men and boys who’d come to choose their sheep. They’d be climbing up the outside of the trailer to get a look in and try pick which one they wanted. They’d be shouting and screaming whilst banging on the trailer to try get the sheep to move around. "Drivers would always do their best to try stop them as the animals are still in their care whilst on the vehicle. Once the trailer door was open the men would be jumping in the trailers trying to grab their sheep and mark it. We’d often end up physically removing the men and a few times it ended up in fists flying. "Once the sheep had been herded into the slaughterhouse pens the real barbarism would begin. After waiting hours and hours with no access to water the Sheep were punched and kicked by the men and boys and forced onto the waiting line to be slaughtered. The whole place is absolute chaos with people screaming and shouting and the sound of dying animals. "Once they reached the front of the queue there’d be an imam sat there reciting prayers as the slaughter man grabbed the animal by the head, spun it round and slit its throat. It would then be hung upside down on an overhead hook conveyor and transported for butchering as it was still bleeding and writhing around in agony. "It’s not an instant death by any means. The supposed “vet” whose job is to maintain welfare standards is nearly always a friend of the owners and is also Muslim who’s paid and simply turns a blind eye. The whole place is a complete blood bath. Zero welfare standards, zero compassion. "In comparison we used to deliver pigs to slaughterhouses and the welfare levels are immense. Animals were herded without any physical contact at all, if you so much as touched an animal the vet would have you and your company banned from the site immediately and reported to the relevant authorities too. "The animals are slaughtered with a single bolt to the back of the head. It’s instant and pain free. "I just thought I’d give some inside information as to what goes on. "Halal meat is vile and it needs to be banned."

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This is happening in Leeds, West Yorkshire..🤬

I'm getting lots of calls from people who have decided to clean out their garage, outbuilding or shed and have found a 'sleeping' hedgehog. Firstly, please leave them there. Put everything back as it was, as gently and quietly as possible, and walk away. Whatever you wanted to do that day is not worth killing a precious endangered animal for. Because of the false autumn this year (the drought traumatised trees into dropping their leaves early, as a survival tactic, and the smell of those decaying leaves is an 'autumn is here' trigger for hedgehogs), a lot are hibernating early. Hibernation isn't a sleep. It's a lowered metabolism. The heartbeat is lowered dramatically from 190 beats per minute to around 15. A breath is taken only once every few minutes. Their body temperature is dropped from 35C to around 5C. Systems not needed for life are shut down. A hibernating hedgehog burns just 1 calorie per day. Isn't that incredible? They still have a sleeping and waking cycle, and are perfectly aware and can hear, but are stiff, rigid, and cannot move. Trapped and helpless in that near-death state. It takes weeks of preparation to achieve this incredible transformation. It cannot be instantly undone. Even the fastest rising, by a young fit hedgehog, takes about 12 hours, before the heart is beating fast enough and there's enough oxygen in the bloodstream to allow muscles to move again. If a hedgehog in a state of hibernation is terrified (by being disturbed by a human) and is panicked into trying to rise too fast, the strain can be too much for him and he'll have a heart attack. It's so dangerous to disturb them that it's actually against the law - and goodness knows our wildlife have few enough laws protecting them. But leaving them in peace is more than obeying the law. It's human kindness. After destroying their own natural habitat, it’s the least we can do - to allow them safe passage through the winter, in whatever space of ours they choose to inhabit. And they chose to inhabit your space because it was undisturbed. Unused. Just as we can smell when a house is empty, hedgehogs can smell when something has lain undisturbed - be it a roll of carpet, a bag of old clothes, or a sack of compost. Undisturbed means safety to a desperate animal. These poor displaced gentle creatures take the chance that small space will stay undisturbed, long enough for them to survive winter. So if you're having a clear out and find a hedgehog please let them stay in peace, undisturbed. Put any covering back just how you found it. Please don't be tempted to add to it, to 'make them more comfy'. 🥰 It's lovely that you feel that way, but the hedgehog will just see it as a predator making their nest unsafe. If there's no access to the building that you know of, please leave the door open a little, or make a cat-flap size hole in the door. And leave a clean dish of water outside the building, and a dish of dry cat or dog food outside in the evenings ( a complete food that has meat as the first listed ingredient). If they are too frightened to continue hibernating there, they will use up a great deal of precious stored energy moving on, and will need to replenish that. And then enjoy the rare privilege, that this precious endangered wild animal trusted you and your garden to be at his most vulnerable.❤️

Family Attempts an Exorcism on Their Cat After It Starts Acting Possessed 😭💀

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In Nepal, elephants were seen saving people from the devastating Flood... Pray for Nepal 🙏 #Nepal #NepalCrisis #Nepalfloods

This guy built over 1,000 homes for squirrels and fitted some of them with cameras so he could see how they live Welcome to the cutest reality TV show out there Writer: Ian

In the middle of a heatwave, a water truck paused to spray water over stray dogs, giving them a moment of relief..🐕‍🦺🐾😊❤️

RULES TO TEACH YOUR SON. 1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting down. 2. Don’t enter a pool by the stairs. 3. The man at the BBQ Grill is the closest thing to a king. 4. In a negotiation, never make the first offer. 5. Request the late check-out. 6. When entrusted with a secret, keep it. 7. Hold your heroes to a higher standard. 8. Return a borrowed car with a full tank of gas. 9. Play with passion or don’t play at all… 10. When shaking hands, grip firmly and look them in the eye. 11. Don’t let a wishbone grow where a backbone should be. 12. If you need music on the beach, you’re missing the point. 13. Carry two handkerchiefs. The one in your back pocket is for you. The one in your breast pocket is for her. 14. You marry the girl, you marry her family. 15. Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like crazy underneath. 16. Experience the serenity of traveling alone. 17. Never be afraid to ask out the best looking girl in the room. 18. Never turn down a breath mint. 19. A sport coat is worth 1000 words. 20. Try writing your own eulogy. Never stop revising. 21. Thank a veteran. Then make it up to him. 22. Eat lunch with the new kid. 23. After writing an angry email, read it carefully. Then delete it. 24. Ask your mom to play. She won’t let you win. 25. Manners maketh the man. 26. Give credit. Take the blame. 27. Stand up to Bullies. Protect those bullied. 28. Write down your dreams. 29. Take time to snuggle your pets, they love you so much and are always happy to see you. 30. Be confident and humble at the same time. 31. If ever in doubt, remember whose son you are and REFUSE to just be ordinary! 32. In all things lead by example not explanation. 33. Dress how you want to be addressed 34. BE BLESSED BY BEING A BLESSING.

You can kill driveway and sidewalk weeds with boiling water. No roundup, no runoff, no dead bees. Boiling water works as a contact herbicide. The heat ruptures the plant's cell walls on contact, and you'll see the weed wilt within minutes. Pour it straight from a kettle onto the weed and into the crack around its base.

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch. His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five. He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology. In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder. The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering. Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

Uncut grass keeps the ground at around 19.5°C Grass cut to 10 cm raises the ground temperature to about 24.5°C Bare ground in the middle of summer rises to over 40°C It's important to raise awareness #NoMowMay

Testing drugs on the streets on dogs is despicable cruelty

Scotland will require swift bricks in all new buildings after MSPs backed a law to help endangered cavity-nesting birds. The move aims to support declining swift populations, which have fallen sharply since 1995, by creating safe nesting spaces in modern homes. Campaigners praised the decision and urged the rest of the UK to follow, saying low-cost bricks can make a vital difference for wildlife.

A retired kindergarten teacher in Chile is running the only continental king penguin colony on Earth. In 2010, king penguins returned to a wind-battered bay in Tierra del Fuego after avoiding it for a decade. The previous time they nested there, people claiming to be scientists took them away in cages, supposedly for research. Most ended up in zoos and homes. When they came back, tourists started putting sunglasses on them for selfies and stealing their eggs. Of 90 penguins, 8 survived the first year. Cecilia Durán Gafo, 72, owns the land. She didn't start a fancy foundation, she started spending every day on the beach with a thermos and a sandwich, telling people to leave the birds alone. Her team buys scraps from local butchers and feeds invasive foxes and minks away from the colony at 3 AM so the chicks survive. The colony is now 200 birds, legally protected for 100 years. Twenty-three chicks fledged last season, the most ever. Sometimes conservation is just one person with a thermos and a bone to pick refusing to leave the beach.

A rural roadside verge along a quiet lane, no visibility issues, cut down in May (again) for no reason other than 'it's what we always do'. Why is this happening Essex County Council @Essex_CC Colchester Council @yourcolchester ? What happened to your 'nature recovery policy' ?