Results tagged “animals”

By Jim Fitzpatrick

I recently co-sponsored a debate in the House on circus animals. This was business with which I'd been dealing, as a minister, just before the election, but which we didn't have time to finish. Mark Pritchard, Tory MP for The Wrekin, Bob Russell, Lib-Dem for Colchester, and I jointly pressed the Government to ban wild animals in circuses.

All creatures great and small, scaly, feathered and forked tongued paid a visit to My Nursery in Virginia Quay last week.

Linton Zoo Outreach Programme brought animals from its Cambridgeshire wildlife centre to meet the children at the nursery.

BOOK
Life Stories, by Sir David Attenborough
Harper Collins, £20
5/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Television's greatest naturalist produces an enthralling collection of essays.

Spring has definitely sprung at Mudchute Farm, with the birth of twelve lambs.

The farm, next to Millwall Park, welcomed its first new arrivals on April 2nd and a final two are expected before the end of the month.