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    There was a plan to re-route an A road that had two options. The first would go over a golf course. The second was planned to go over where I went shooting. The golf club hired a lawyer to oppose the plans. 'A friend' relocated some crested newts from a pond near to his house 12 miles away into a little pond that was on our shoot and right on the route of the road. Then 'discovered' and publicised the newt's location. The road never got built. Sometimes it works.
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    It is strange that in France there are hundreds of thousands of empty houses in country villages. You could buy a habitable 'doer upper ' for less than ten grand. The smaller village schools are closing down because of the lack of youngsters in the rural areas as are long standing small businesses. Any refugees seem to be housed in flats in the larger towns and cities. Other than us Brits and a few Dutch the only foreigners are the Romanian pikies who all take French nationalty as soon as they can in order to get the benefits. We have no refugee problem or housing shortage. If the Brits l
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    Only because there are no collieries any more.
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    Perfectionism doesn't work with hunting / trapping. Nature keeps getting in the way.
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    50mm is 2 inches. You'd need a mallet to drive it in. ?
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    And black people playing for West Ham are OK too. Hypocritical or what?
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    Sleepy Joe can't keep his eyes ope at the best of times.
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    You can tell by the expression on the mole's face. That look of surprise is a dead (sorry) giveaway.
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    Use rebar of around 4mm to 6mm. Ask someone with a welder to put a couple of beads of weld at the bottom to help feel the drop into the tunnel. Then use a short length of round baton to make T handle. If you cut it to the same length as a Duffus trap then cut the ends to 45 degrees and fit the probe to the short side. You can use the handle to firm up the tunnel base if required. The tunnels can be anywhere from an inch to 2 feet dependent on conditions and seasons. Look around the edges of your garden, sides of patios and hedgerows for small signs of mole activity. Then probe in those a
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    I think you are spot on as usual. If daily checks were compulsory then many mole trappers would go out of business as many customers would be unwilling to foot the bill. Regards the efficiency claims; there must be hundreds of versions of Duffus type traps. I used to be given them by unsuccesful customers and most were unfit for purpose. But opening the Pandora's Box of traps having to be officially tested and authorised means that manufacturers would have to put their trust in the tester's ability and integrity. And then there is the issue of tweaking / tuning which to me is just
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    As I said; I have traps in my garden that are checked every morning. I might get 12 to 15 a year from them and not one has been caught around the middle and still alive. I used to work for a Yorkshire sheep farmer out here. He had a habit of following me around and lifting the trap covers. If the wire was up he would take the mole out and re set it. They hadn't been in the ground 30 minutes in some cases. Not one of the moles were alive when trapped. The guy is making it up to fit his own agenda.
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    Come on. Everybody would remember that goal. I also can remember nodding in the top corner after a fast break only for the ball to go through a loop where the netting hadn't been fitted properly and the ref didn't allow it. Life can be so cruel. Where was goal line technology when I needed it?
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    Hood Green .v. Thurgoland 1977/8 season. Local derby cup tie. 1:1 with ten minutes to go. They had a corner, cleared out to me on the edge of the box. Full back closed me down. Pushed the ball past him on the outside, ran around him on the inside, looked up and saw their goalie was stood on the 18 yard line. The ball came down with snow on it and scraped under the bar with him back peddling like a circus monocyclist. 60 fecking yards. The referee came over and shook my hand. Doesn't get any more high pressure than that. And it was a complete fluke!
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    I chipped the goalkeeper from within my own half. It isn't uncommon. (It taught him not to stand on the edge of his box when they had a corner) ?
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    I think people seem to be forgetting that the England women's team played against women. Turn the situation around and imagine what Gareth Southgate, Pep or Klopp would say to them. "Stop chasing the fecking ball and give the player in possession some fecking options to pass to!"
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    She never found reverse!
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    And do you find moles still alive in the traps? Nicholls claims the majority aren't killed instantly. I have traps in my garden that are checked daily. Funnily enough all the trapped moles have been dead.
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    The gist of the report is that Nicholls seems to be trying to get the authorities to insist on mole trappers making daily visits to the trap sites as, in his claimed experience very few moles die as a result of the trap going off, but languish in the traps still alive. As if by magic he produced a still live mole that had been trapped around the middle. Now in my very limited experience there are several things come to mind: If the mole is caught by the middle then the trap hasn't been properly tuned If the mole is still alive the trap is too weak. I can't get a pencil into the
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    It is tgh same with the paraplegic games. They cannot possibly have contestants with differing disabilities competing equally. It is a farce. The success of the women's football team cannot be denied. But I don't want to watch it and their success means that there will be less mens PL footy on BBC to give more air time to women's footy. Sky Sports must be rubbing their hands in glee!
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    You are a sad loss to the Lib-Dems ?
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    They might do already. I was just replying to a couple of posts that implied English male players were paid a lot of money for playing for their country.
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    That's nothing. I've seen American women on youtube speak non stop for 20 minutes without drawing breath.
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    The England men don't receive anything for international appearances. It goes to charity.
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    Snap
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    That's the BBC Sports Awards sorted - team and individual.
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