A Country Pillow Book

A COUNTRY PILLOW BOOK (Index)
A B(i) (ii) C(i) (ii) D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S(i) (ii) T U V W XYZ
B (i)
B6252 49 BAA backing airport development 312 Babes in the Wood 192 baby attacked by fox 236 baby badgers 88 baby daughter 12 baby food 114 baby hares 91 baby rabbits 69 baby seal crawled inland 90 Bach, Lord 475 Bacheldre 348 back-dated licences 11 backbench and DEFRA colleagues 293 backbench Labour MPs 203 backbenchers 47, 162, 293, 324, 329 Backhouse, Paul 245 backward facing spines 87 bacon butty 308 bad weather effects 282 Baddeley, Miles and Gie 183 badger 69, 78, 87, 94, 117, 214, 251, 382 badger abuse 211 badger attached to snare 263 badger baiters 389 badger baiting 142, 211 badger corpse painted over 251 badger cub killed 450 badger cub numbers low 336 badger cubs 69 badger cull 53 badger cull research 435 badger cull trial 397 badger culling 16, 22, 216, 303, 320, 356 badger culling trials 101, 167 badger diggers 'kill or injure 10,000' a year 456 badger digging 249 badger ecologist 282 badger exterminations 80 badger family extermination licensed 260 badger fans celebrate jailings 456 badger fans cleared 303 badger fencing fiasco 342 badger gassing warning 472 badger goes berserk 311 badger numbers 415 badger poisoned during pest control 132 badger protection organisation 78 badger sett 117, 124, 128, 155, 204, 249 badger setts 69, 260, 336 badger setts disturbed 286 badger setts fatally blocked up 170 badger setts row 292 badger slaughter 80 badger sows 69 badger torn open by snare 263 badger tracking devices 456 Badger Trust 472 Badger Trust welcomes Bill 463 badger watching scheme 87 badger's favourite nibble 277 badger's head on sporran 384 badger, Boris 311 badger, Judy 178 badgers 'not to blame' over shot calves 454 badgers 10, 14, 22, 39, 40, 53, 63, 69, 72, 77, 87, 88, 94, 105, 117, 124, 128, 132, 155, 161, 167, 170, 190, 204, 211, 216, 226, 228, 231, 245, 248, 267, 269, 288, 291, 293, 295, 349, 356, 365, 415, 421, 435, 438, 463 badgers boosted 320 badgers could be saved 282 badgers cull threat 301 badgers defended 451 badgers dig up human bones 310 badgers dig up lawns 336 badgers evicted from sett 260 badgers face 'strategic cull' 442 badgers gassing row 380 badgers locked out of sett 407 badgers saved from swimming pool 180 badgers snacking on birds 299 badgers threatened 342, 389 Badgers Unknown 384 badgers v residents problem 269 badgers' effect on birds probe 299 Badminton Horse Trials 221 bag ducks 32 Bailey, Jane 161 Baillie, Stephen 103 Baines, Chris 127, 372, 434 Baird, Adrian 32 bait diggers 211 baited cage traps 305 baked bean sea-squirt 391 baker 111 Baker, Jeff 475 Baker, Mike 95 Baker, Norman 167, 395 bakery polluted river 322 bakery workers 111 Bakewell 75 Bala 256 bald eagles 13 bald leaf trees 377 Baldock and Clothall villages' WI 41 Balloch 307 Balmer, Dawn 385. 394 Balmoral Estate 393 Baltic 432 Baltic Sea 64 Baltmoor wall 5 Bambi 287 Bamping, Danny 351, 366, 370 Bampton 371 ban exports of German beef 118 Banbury court 358 Banchory 290 bank accounts 15 Bank Holiday 226 Bank Holiday Monday 2 Bank of England 9 bank restoration 325 bankrupt farmers 265 banks 310 Banks, Tony 117, 125, 140, 329, 344, 391, 395, 401 banned poisons and pesticides 380 BAP workshops 112 bar-tailed godwit 330 Barassie Primary 215 barbastelle bat 343 barbastelle bats 53 barbastelles 164 barbed fly 376 barbel 6, 95, 137, 277, 366, 397, 417 Barclays 474 Barclays Bank 121 Bardsey Bird Observatory 308 Bardsey Island 308 bark 63 bark stripping 320 Barker, Jamie 158 Barker, Kate 386 Barking Barrier 381 Barking Reach 357 barley 2 barley field 182 barley stubble fields 327 Barlow, Adrian 178 Barlow, Richard 371 barmy Brussels law 285 Barn Elms reservoir sanctuary 41 barn owl 17, 64, 429 Barn Owl Monitoring Programme 313 barn owl nests 444 barn owl road deaths 391 Barn Owl Trust 391 barn owls 112, 156, 179 , 293, 313, 346, 380, 469 barn owls' breeding success 444 barnacle geese 419 Barnes 190 Barnett, Andrew 111 Barnoldswick 49 Barnstaple 108 Baronsdown sanctuary 272, 320 Barra 423 barracuda 176 Barras, Fred 30, 43 Barratts 74 Barratts West Midlands Ltd 74 Barrett, Chris 399 Barrett, Dave 237 barrier to migrating salmon 406 Barron, Simon 331 Barrow, Norman 24 Barton-on-Sea 288 Bartram, Hannah 90, 190 Barvas 424 BASC Scotland 28 Bashford, Richard 300 Basic Sheepmeat Price 57 Basingstoke 46, 52, 134 basking shark hunting 325 basking shark's lucky escape 457 basking sharks 23, 30,57, 62, 148, 155 163, 270, 290, 387, 462 basking sharks rocket 340 basking sharks survey 325 bass 379 bass boost 288 bass fishery 373 bass fishing 283 bass fishing fleet 314 bass pelagic trawlers 314 Bassenthwaite Lake 228, 320 basset hounds 292 Bat Beat 430 bat boxes 155, 336 Bat Conservation Trust 23, 155, 244, 302, 338, 426 bat consultant 270 bat droppings hazard 397 bat lyssavirus 270 bat rabid 426 bat record breaker 135 bat ringed as a baby 135 bat roost 23 bat roosts 338 Batchelor, Douglas 15, 162, 176, 194, 233, 237, 263, 271, 272, 274, 286, 293, 299, 413, 433 Bateman, Geoff 64 Bath 107, 270 Bathampton 247 bathing season 36 bathing water samples 122 Baths Chaps 275 bats 23, 34, 50, 53, 97, 135, 155, 164, 169, 214, 215, 218, 244, 267, 270, 302, 336, 352, 372, 382, 394, 413, 438 Bats booklet 352 bats cause a flap 392 bats des' res' 34 bats drive parishioners away 397 bats guide 218 bats landmark victory 23 bats latest weapon 343 bats music CD 430 bats rabies fear 270 bats roosting in woods 343 bats under threat 338 bats' roost boost 338 battery hens 427 Battle of Hastings 113, 146 Battleton Brook 240 Baxenden and District Golf Club 328 Bay of Biscay 5, 373 Bayer 382, 391 Bayley, Jane 325 BBC 38, 190, 213, 276, 314, 337, 357, 421 BBC Animal Awards 189 BBC dumping programme 447 BBC film-makers 388 BBC Gardeners' World Live Show 137 BBC owls documentary 466 BBC Parliament 241 BBC Radio 4 36, 313, 435 BBC Radio 4's Today programme 172, 179 BBC report wrong 248 BBC series 317, 468 BBC to axe only fishing programme 152 BBC weather forecaster 185 BBC weather presenter 168 BBC Wildlife Magazine 167, 190 BBC wildlife series 217 BBC's Countryfile 176 BBC's journalist 248 BBC's Natural History Unit 128 BBC2 TV series 472 Beach, Jean 69 beagle pack theft 92 beagle packs 80 beagles 110, 142, 292 beagles theft 172 beagling 80 beaked whale 377 bean goose 419 bear 210 bear baiting 150, 119, 279 bearded tit 233 bears 69, 453 Beast of Bodmin Moor 370 Beast of Bucks 474 Beast of Devon 109 beaters 166 Beaters Organisation 215 Beatle 24, 304 Beatle's ex-partner 97 Beatles' ballads 220 Beatrice 437 Beatrix Potter books 397 Beaufort Hunt 6, 193 Beaufort, Bicester with Whaddon Chase 221 beauty spot ruined 319 beaver field trial 70 beavers 27,70, 127, 190 beavers in legality probe 465 beavers' six-month quarantine 465 Bebb, Adrian 5, 27, 81 Beccles 361 Bechstein's bat 343 beck 111 Beckett, Margaret 137, 138, 146, 154, 162, 167, 172, 178, 187, 191, 196, 203, 204, 208, 222, 232, 255, 265, 268, 415, 441, 442 Beckham, David 154, 222 Beckley 248, 275 bed-and-breakfast premises 109 Bedford 172 Bedford Purlieus 120 Bedford Square 352 Bedford to Streatham train 136 Bedford, Maria 134 Bedfordshire 4, 29, 98, 146, 147, 185, 301 Bedlington Magistrates Court 162 Bedworth, Darren 407 bee droppings 247 bee farm 20 bee-eaters 251 bee-eaters hatch chicks 240 beech 365, 412, 429 beech leaf colouring 168 beech mast 313 beech trees 350 beef 3, 8, 36, 42, 47, 78, 86, 100, 195, 203, 210, 214, 233, 258, 275, 395, beef ban 13, 45, 239, 256, 364 beef ban lifted 258 beef cattle 103 beef cattle 87 beef cow aggression 313 beef cuts 110 beef exports 173 beef farm 104 beef farmers 104, 110, 178, 463 beef hamburgers 79 beef imports 79 beef industry 13, 19, 42 beef labels 42 beef market 104 beef muscles its way back 463 beef payments 265 beef producers 232 beef producers 472 beef sales 79 Beef Special Premium 265 beef suckler herd 378 beef to your door 204 beekeepers 244 beer 16 beer drinkers 16 beer traps 127 bees 20, 44, 48, 244, 300, 318, 328, 351, 361, 372, 408 bees blamed for pollution scare 247 bees booklet 445 bees swarm 44 bees swarming 409 bees' feet advice 408 bees' nest 48 Beesley, John 447 beetle 112, 128, 129, 223 beetle banks 235, 286 beetle flight 223 beetle threat to flowers 435 beetle traps 296 beetle, ET 156 beetles 58, 206 243, 296, 311 Beith, Alan 101 Belbin, Rodney 254 belching cows 54 Belfast 158, 353 belfry 132 Belgian artist 462 Belgian beef 183 Belgian plant 183 Belgian ring 402 Belgians 183 Belgium 5, 402 Bell's Scottish League Challenge Cup 261 Bell, Sandra 436 Bell, Sarah 322 Bell, William 203 Bellamy, David 71, 167, 377 Bempton Cliffs nature reserve 439 Ben Gunn boat 44 Ben Nevis 444 Benbecula 278, 305, 378 beneficial beetles and spiders 49 beneficial insects 49 benefits of organic farming systems 183 Bennett, Andrew 169 Bennett, Paul 291 Bennett, Teresa 62 Bennett, Tim 6, 24, 35, 42, 51, 57, 59, 68, 74, 161, 233, 247, 249, 252, 269, 370, 378, 386 Benroy Cup 189 bequests 112 Bercow, John 61 Bere Regis 341 bereaved animal lovers 416 Beresford, Sir Paul 319 Berkeley 173 Berkeley Vale Hunt 173 Berkeley, Lord 365, 373 Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust 206, 364, 371, 381 Berkshire 15, 102, 138, 152, 197, 206, 254, 321, 340, 351, 381 Bernese Mountain dog 189 berries 332, 339 Berry Head 50 Berry, Bruce 185 Berry, Maggie 284 Berwyn Hills 248 besieged by burglars 30 bespoke outfits 469 best coursing greyhounds 193 Best Family Attraction in Gloucestershire 252 best of British food festival 50 best salmon river 433 best wines 107 best-loved apple 249 betray trust 286 Better Food Labelling 21 Better Regulation Task Force 78 Betteshanger 161 betting industry 180 Betws y Coed 284 Bevern stream 310 Bewick¹s swan 188 Bewick¹s swans 263 BHS 77 Bible (Proverbs) 242 bicycle covered in bees 409 Bideford 97, 310 Bidford 231 Biffen, Lord 340 Big Brother 183 Big Brother treatment 317 big cat 83, 92, 93, 96, 109, 111, 151, 158, 198, 216,t 251, 278, 338, 365 big cat at Chequers 474 big cat country 70 big cat experts 70 big cat forum 451 big cat scare 381 big cat sightings increase 351 big cat sightings on increase 285 big cat sightings surge 429 big cats 16, 281, 288, 366, 370, 396, 422, 451 big freeze 282 Big Garden Birdwatch 100, 126, 191, 200, 217, 283, 300, 38, 389, 471 big jungle cat 123 Big Lock 231 big, dark stranger 468 biggest changes in agriculture 438 biggest earthquake 338 biggest grouse in the world 239 biggest heather moorland experiment 226 biggest lobster caught in Europe 170 biggest market for British beef 364 biggest members of crow family 457 biggest reedbed 233 biggest seabird colonies 317 Biggin Hill 78 Biggleswade 146 Bill to ban foxhunting 140 Bill to ban hunting with dogs 95 Bill to ban hunting with dogs in Scotland 200 Bill to protect common land 451 billboards 59 Billingham, Harry 150 Billingham, Ruth 306 bindweed 8 bio-mass burning power station 75 bio-tech firm 187, 391 biodiesel 215, 465 biodiversity 104, 163, 318 Biodiversity Action Plan 255, 263, 284, 299, 328, 408 Biodiversity Action Plan Species 238, 246, 343 Biodiversity Action Plan targets 156 biodiversity benefits 420 biodiversity police 357 biological controls 223 biological transformation 84 biologist 49, 313 biologists 247 biomass industry 296 biosecurity 136, 161, 162, 184, 462 biosecurity awareness on farms 268 biotech industry 81, 457 biotechnology 198 biotechnology industry 25 birch 171, 412, 416 Birchills 66 bird 'success story of the century' 309 Bird Aid 421 bird anatomy 29 bird broke all the rules 432 Bird Centre of the Year 252 bird cherry 236 bird distress calls 172 bird feeding couple face court 474 bird flew 'five million miles' 308 bird flu accusations 465 bird flu fears grow 474 bird flu pandemic fear 462 bird flu panic mounts 462 bird flu reassurance 453 bird killings by cats 99 bird migration to Africa 427 bird nests in traffic lights 395 bird of prey 126, 132, 134, 383, 427, 439, 458 bird of prey's quads 423 Bird of the century 5 bird poisoning 439 bird population drops by 34 million 428 Bird Registration System 246 bird revered by Pharaohs 337 bird ringing demonstration 380 bird shooting 439 bird stuck up tree 411 bird tables 350 bird trapping 78 bird traps 326 bird virus alert 453 Bird, Tony 200 bird-brains 437 bird-eating bats 302 bird-feeding hat 181 Birdcrime '99 72 Birdcrime 2003 report 439 Birdcrime report 329 Birdland 358 BirdLife International 18, 59, 283, 300, 373 birds 'hazard to native wildlife' 466 birds - 60 million pairs estimate 407 birds collide with windows 389 birds have no feet 382 birds of prey 13, 43, 85, 98, 107, 112, 128, 129, 156, 175, 194, 206, 219, 225, 246, 261, 293, 329, 341, 364, 381, 402, 403, 411, 449, 453, 463, 466, 471 birds of prey found dead 380 birds of prey killed on roads per day 295 birds of prey nestboxes 444 birds of prey poisoned 370 birds of prey registration scheme 270 birds of prey viewing point 469 birds' 'sky-dancing' displays 469 birds' growing unpopularity 461 birdsong 130, 182 birdsong almost extinct 227 birdstrike 304, 366 birdwatcher 9 birdwatcher's cat eats rare bird 371 birdwatcher's dream 195 birdwatchers 41, 47, 52, 71, 136, 139, 143 191, 240, 265, 283, 297, 315, 318, 352, 353, 375, 378, 379, 382, 386, 397, 406, 416, 424, 427, 449, 466, 474 birdwatchers scratching heads 314 birdwatching trips 203 Birks, Johnny 281 Birmingham 5, 43, 117, 140, 194, 366 Bishop 142 Bishop Middleham 240, 251 Bishop's Castle 42 Bisler, Brian 335 bites to otter genitals and face 66 bitten and stung 48 bitterly cold winters 22 bittern 27 bittern booms for love 379 bittern rescue scheme 338 bittern returns 190 bitterns 68, 117, 134, 233, 357 bitterns back in London 474 bitterns boosted 312 bitterns' reedbed boost 338 Bitton 423 Bjerraard, Ritt 89 black ants 242 black ash tree 237 black big cat 429 black boar 244 Black Bog Rush grass 294 black butterfly 133 black cats 281 black grouse 5, 71, 161, 237, 265, 333, 413 black grouse lekking 348 Black Grouse Recovery Initiative 348 black grouse revival 408 Black Isle 370 black kite 90 black labrador 241 black leopard 365 black market 432 Black Mountains 281 Black Park country park 416 black poplar tree 404 black rat 26 black rat demo 310 Black Rock 438 black swan 188 Black, Liz 105 black-browed albatross 126 black-legged kittiwakes 394 black-tailed godwit 66, 330, 343, 432 black-tailed godwits 134, 352, 357 black-throated divers 230, 441 blackbird 126, 130, 149, 215, 220, 250, 300, 332, 340, 393, 395 blackbird chicks 440 blackbird driving off magpie 440 blackbird droppings 49 blackbird window strike 389 blackbirds 'do best in London' 460 blackbirds 49, 84, 147, 195, 220, 241, 311, 351, 410, 442, 474 Blackburn 254 blackcap 5, 29, 93, 214, 215 blackcaps 78, 176, 185, 191 blackcaps winter here 363 Blacker, Mike 356 Blackfriars Bridge 140 Blackhill Mill 176 Blackpill 252 Blackpool 140,l 265 blacksmiths 226 Blackthorn Centre 462 Blackwell, Miles 179 Blackwells bookshop fortune 179 Blackwood 199 bladderwort 296 Blair Drummond Safari Park 312 Blair, Tony 4, 14, 15, 21, 36, 41, 47, 56, 65, 66, 78, 94, 112, 115, 122, 125, 127, 129,139, 140, 193, 203, 208, 221, 258, 265, 293, 344, 352, 372, 391, 393, 401, 474 Blake, William 273 Blakehill airfield 22 Blanc, Raymond 384 Bland, Richard 407 Blandford Forum 254 blatant propaganda 135 blaze death 19 bleak farming economy 52 Blenheim Palace 51, 54 Blessed, Brian 210 blight resistant potatoes 445 blindness 349 blizzards 378 blockade 13 blockade of oil refinery 65 blocking attempt by peers 70 blond hedgehogs 194 blood samples 161 blood testing 181 blood-curdling noise 205 bloodhound 274 blooding of children 184 bloodlines of rare livestock 118 bloodthirsty murderers 124 bloody waste spread on field 37 Bloomsbury 352 Blue Moor grass 294 Blue Reef Aquarium 459 Blue Riband 102, 193 Blue Square betting 274 blue tit 17, 76, 126, 215, 300, 405, 407, 452 blue tit chicks 76 blue tits 98, 227, 240, 378, 383, 460, 475 blue tongue virus 342 blue willow beetle 296 Bluebell 269 bluebell carpets 253 Bluebell Publishing 475 bluebell woods 210 bluebells 21, 35, 196, 285, 300, 307 bluebottle 323 Blumenthal, Liz 88 Blunkett, David 282 boa constrictor 328 boa constrictors 21 boar 350 boar meat imported from Asia 67 boar products 361 Bodmin Magistrates 73 Bodmin Moor 30 boffins 107, 127, 145, 363, 402 bog 161, 186 Bognor Regis area 97 bogs 70, 121, 214, 296, 399 bogs continue to vanish 413 bogus waste disposal teams 447 Boharm 292 Bolton Fell Moss 413 Bolton, Phil 349, 357 bomb disposal experts 61, 137, 431 bombus harrisellus bee 328 bonfire hazard for hedgehogs 430 Bonfire Night 176, 262 bonfires 176, 268 bonfires herald march 243 Bonner, Tim 395 Bontuchel Weir 406 Book 1 - The Eastern Fells 249 'booming' heron-like birds 474 booming-voiced birds 190 booms deployed 243 booted eagle 90 Booth, Sue 240 Boothroyd room 253 Boots 94 Border 209 border collies 186 border defences 230 Borders 178, 380 Borders area 333 Boroughbridge 46 Boroughbridge Weir 345 Borwick Waters 394 Bosanquet, Anthony 74, 86, 94, 96, 107, 109, 113, 115, 118, 121, 122, 173 Boston 260 Bosworth, Tony 56, 113 botanists 255 botany 412 Botany Bay 326 Botham, Ian 384 bottlenose dolphin 140, 144, 260, 337 bottlenose dolphins 62, 86, 238, 239 421, 454 BOU conference 79 Bourne End 475 Bourne, Professor John 80