A Country Pillow Book

A COUNTRY PILLOW BOOK (Index)
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Pacific salmon 377 Packer, James 207 Packham, Chris 144 Paignton 153 paint balling 199 painting 154 Pale Moor 4 Palin, Estelle 254 Palmer, Eric 291 Palmer, Joy 265 Palmerston Wood 120 pampas grass 8 Pan Fish 364 panda 53 panoramic banality 58 panther 16, 109, 111, 133, 198, 351, 365 panther-like creatures 366 panthers 422 paper protection 86 Paradise Preserved 214 paraglider 408 paraglider pilot attacked 408 parakeet, Bobby 67 parakeets 191 parapox virus 297 parasite eggs 363 parasites 240, 328, 334 parasites in poultry and game birds 135 parasitic behaviour of cuckoos 257 parasitic birds 447 parasitic infestation 349 parasitic mites 244 parasitic wasps 49 Parc Mawr 135, 140 parcel bomb 100 parents 11 Parham 404 Paris 45, 195, 240 Parish Plan 146 Parish Transport Grants 158 Parish, Dr Dave 105 Parish, John 319 Parker, Rob 445 Parker, Stuart 93 Parkhead Farm 410 parks for walks 409 Parliament 42, 47, 62, 70, 81, 83, 87, 93, 95, 112, 125, 138, 173, 174, 180, 193, 194, 241, 256, 270, 277, 278, 292, 314 351, 353, 360, 447 Parliament Act 51, 115, 129, 280, 324, 329, 344, 354, 380, 424, 432, 441 Parliament hours devoted to Afghanistan 447 Parliament hours devoted to hunting 447 Parliament hours devoted to Iraq 447 Parliament Square 89, 247, 322, 325 Parliamentarians 181, 277, 345 Parliamentary convention 51 Parliamentary debate about dolphins 283 Parliamentary democracy 111, 181 Parliamentary democracy in trouble 131 Parliamentary Labour Party 344 Parliamentary Ombudsman 265 Parliamentary process 253, 293 Parliamentary questions 176 Parliamentary sessions 280 Parliamentary watchdog 320 Parminter, Kate 278, 289 parrot resident in tree 446 parrot, Holly 134 Parry, Morgan 199 Partnership for Action against Wildlife Crime 209 Partnership's Shooting Club 96 partridge 413 partridge numbers 263 partridges 215, 341 party politics 131 Paske, Michael 81, 131, 152, 165, 169, 314 Pass of Ryvoan 364 passionate encounter 180 Passport Issuing Organisations 421 passports for pets 121 Paterson, Bryan 129 Pathfinders Vocational Training 286 pathogens 417 pathways 378 patriotic customers 41 patriotic red, white and blue cover crops 215 patriotic shoppers 21 patriotism 395 patron saint of England 395 Patten, Marguerite 23 Patterson, Gordon 58 Patterson, Jim 468 Patton, Jeffrey 387 Paul's Maltings 2 Paul, Philip 66 paw prints 96 paws like a tiger's 351 Paxton, Jeremy 465 Paynter, Dave 134 PBDEs 393 PCBs 70 PDV effect on seals 255 PDV outbreak 256 Peace, Kevin 265 peach Juliette rose 474 Peach, Dr Will 49 peacock butterflies 107, 127, 434 peacock butterfly 235, 236, 393 peacocks 36 Peak District 75, 219, 400, 403 Peak District Rural Deprivation Forum 374 Peak Nestwatch 403 Peak Park Moorland Owners and Tenants Association 179 peanuts 3 pear trees 236 Pearce Seeds 215 Pearce, Colin 173 Pearce, Gordon 272 pearl mussels 46 pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly 317, 340, 450, 455 Pearlman, Jerry 9 Pearse, Colin 435 Pearson, Roger 178 peat alternatives 14 peat bog expert 186 peat bogs 214, 296, 413 peat compost 121 peat extraction 14, 60,121, 296, 399, 413 peat industry 14 Peat Moors 466 peat workings haven 466 peat-free products 121, 214 peatland concerns 399 Pedigree Greyhound Show 77 Peel, Ian 67, 171 peer 206, 344 peers 51, 60, 70, 111, 115, 206, 209, 289, 325, 354, 360, 373 peewits 437 peg-like teeth 57 pelagic bass fishery 283 pelagic trawl 373 pelican 352, 372 pelican, Lucy 358 pellets of mud 470 pelt 106 pelts 425 Pembridge 28 Pembrokeshire 6, 219, 337 Pembrokeshire coast 8 Pembrokeshire Coast National Park 6, 23, 64 Pen y Fan Industrial Estate 351 penguins 96 Penn Inn 438 Penn Wood 75, 206 Pennells, Christine 468 Pennine Way 92 Pennines 92, 237 penny-pinching 113 Penrhyndeudraeth 31 Penrith 100, 140, 181 Penrith Spur restrictions 181 Pensford 397 pentobarbitone 261 Pentre Tump 404 Penybontfawr 351 Penzance 457, 459 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) 119, 124, 134, 137, 144, 150, 156, 160, 180, 295 People's Trust for Endangered Species 75, 164, 375, 378, 453 pepper-sprayed 137 Pepys, Samuel 434 perch 277, 306, 317, 361 Pere David's deer 312 peregrine egg shells too thin 316 peregrine falcon 13, 161, 207, 270, 316, 329 peregrine falcon nest failures 267 peregrine falcon numbers 110, 439 peregrine falcon shot dead 439 peregrine falcons 56, 72, 107, 110, 132, 156, 306, 334, 344, 381, 463 peregrine falcons poisoned 316 peregrine falcons spoiled party 406 peregrine falcons' lucky escape 403 peregrine falcons' poison threat 402 peregrine nests 306 peregrine territories 267, 344 peregrine youngster feared dead 424 peregrines 13, 43, 469 peregrines 319 Perkins, Bryan 313 Perranporth 3 persecution of badgers 117 personal liberty 87 Perth 65, 413, 444 Perthshire 18, 124, 207, 304, 354, 370, 420 Perthshire Big Tree Country 460 Perthshire's forests 460 Peru 472 Peruvian pygmy porker 160 pest 87 pest control 110, 378 pest control campaigns 63 pest control company 411 pest control officers 67 pest control professionals 262 pest controller 15 pest controllers 72, 101, 293 pesticide free food 103 pesticide regulations 383 pesticide-drenched cereal fields 342 pesticides 56, 89, 98, 160 pesticides used as poison 370 pests 49 pet cremations 416 pet fish warning 411 pet mice suffocated 159 Peterborough 65, 165, 433 Peterborough City Council 433 Petersfield 409 petrel 457 Petrie-Ritchie, Robyn 320 petrol protest 56 Petronius 472 pets 'at risk from hounds' 445 pets 349 Pets Travel Scheme 306 pets' fear of fireworks 262 petunia 340 Pharaohs 337 PhD student 329 PhD study 299 pheasant 82, 166, 184, 193, 361, 413 pheasant and grouse shoot 211 pheasant attacks postman 387 pheasant chicks 44 pheasant eggs 222 pheasant release pens 13, 263 pheasant shoot prize 28 pheasant shooting 28, 99, 331, 374, 469 pheasant shooting season 261 pheasant shoots 427 pheasant-rearing areas 435 pheasants 96, 215, 341, 388, 427 pheasants culled at farm 453 pheasants excess 167 pheasants in bird flu row 465 Phelps Inquiry 77 phenologists 240, 253, 290 Phenology Network 290 pheromone baits 269 Phileas Fogg Tortilla Chips 79 Phillips, Julia 426 Philpott, Stephen 445 phlox 340 phobia about frogs 84 phocine distemper virus (PDV) 245, 256 phoserin 370 phosphates 347 phosphorescent beetles 243 phosphoric acid 475 phosphorus 432 photosynthesise 412 phypoptahera 177 physiotherapist 186 phytophthora fungus 38 phytophthora kernovii 429 phytophthora ramorum 401, 429 phytophthora taxon C 429 pickaxe handles 65 Pickering 154 Picknall Brook 143, 177 Pickthall, Colin 203 picnic recipes 23 Picts 18 pied wagtail 138 pied wagtails 474 pied wheatear 357 Pierre White, Marco 255, 349 pig 67, 244 pig body parts 431 pig clones 22, 46 pig farmer 50 pig farmer fined 358 pig farmers 8, 60, 253 pig lucky 137 pig meat 195 pig organs 22 pig organs for transplant 60 pig producers 8 pig saved its own bacon 137 pig semen 60 pig slurry pollution 358 pig viruses 60 pig wallowing 442 pig welfare improvements 138 pig's snout used in protest 285 pig, Poddington 160 pigeon 'hotels' 64 pigeon 136, 141, 147, 476 Pigeon Control Advisory Council 85 pigeon culls 191 pigeon exploded in a fireball 136 pigeon fanciers 13, 56, 316 pigeon nests in car wash machine 319 pigeon problems 50, 151 pigeon racer 109 pigeon, Pierre 333 pigeons 13, 50, 56, 64, 85 107, 119, 132, 141, 187, 191, 261, 268, 316, 354 pigeons doused in poison 316 pigeons going missing 375 pigeons shot as game 141 pigeons' droppings 50 pigeons' homing instincts go haywire 375 piggery 46, 52 piglet 139, 192 piglet, Wilbur 42 piglet, Wilma 83 piglets 46, 52, 67, 148, 431 piglets, Wolver and Hampton 255 pigs 22, 46, 52, 67, 68, 115, 195, 275, 361, 388, 431 pigs across Europe 138 pigs killed by fire 114 pigs love music 333 pigs must be kept happy 285 pigs slaughtered 60 pigs' cheeks 275 pigs, Butch and Sundance 337 pigs, Rasher, Snuffles, Crackling, Porkchop and Porkpie 115 pike 1, 56, 84, 105, 122, 277, 347, 369, 449 Pike Anglers Club 401 Pike Cooked in Horseradish Cream 1 pike fishermen 401 pike lake 243 pike threat to Scots fish 401 pike, Isaac 208 Pilate, Pontius 18 Pilcher, Mark 288 Pilling, Neil 330 pilot whales 462 Pilton site 301 pine bunting 357 pine cones 473 Pine Marten booklet 281 pine martens 75, 165, 281, 339 pine martens reintroduction bid 339 pine needles 348 pine needles as food 239 pine tree barriers 454 pine trees 348, 416 Pineapple Pippin apple 350 pink Miranda rose 474 pink-backed pelican 352 pink-footed geese 170, 263, 419 pink-footed geese threat 281 pint of milk 19 pipe leaking steam 46 piped oxygen 306 pipistrelle 302 pipistrelle bat 343 pipistrelle bats 215 pipistrelles 244, 430 pipits 447 piranhas in pond 407 pirhana fish 147 pit ponies 444 Pitlochry 444, 460 Pitson, John 134 Plague 350 Plaid Cymru 413 Plaistow Mills 108 plane trees 412 plankton 30, 387 plankton feeder 325 plankton stocks 411 plankton-eating giants 57 planning new houses and roads 191 Planning Policy Wales 267 Plant a Wood on your Doorstep 72 plant ecologist 186 Plant Health Service 223 Plant Press 372 Plantlife International 395, 413 plants super resistant to herbicides 198 plants with external skeletons 395 Plas Machynlleth Hunt 391 plaster casts taken of prints 130 plastic wine bottle stoppers 90, 190, 253 platinum wedding 166 platters at a giant royal feast 188 playgrounds of business executives 333 playing chicken 74 playing on children's anxieties 160 pleasure craft anger 456 pluckiest of birds 133 plums 335 Plymbridge Woods 402 Plymouth 23, 57, 67, 147, 163, 170, 292, 317, 402 Plymouth College of Further Education 402 Plymouth reservoir 30 Plynlimmon 113 poached salmon fines threat 400 poacher pair in court 379 poachers 262 poachers hunted 433 poaching 158, 262, 354 poaching trip 330 pockets of tranquillity 119 Pocklington 317 Pocklington Beck 317 Pocklington Canal 317 poet 274 poets 350 point-to-point race 223 pointing dogs 337 poison 349 poisoned bait 457 poisoned birds of prey 72 poisoned Scottish birds 370 poisoned vermin 58 poisoning birds of prey 463 poisoning campaign 56 poisoning peregrines 306 poisonous spiders 48 poisonous, parasitic shrub 412 poisons 274 pole nestboxes 64, 346 polecat populations 433 polecats 165 Polesdon 263 Police Federation 36 police 'should not' enforce hunt ban - poll 433 police 10, 30, 32, 34, 61, 69, 71, 72, 75, 81, 93, 100, 102, 112, 113, 114, 124, 131, 139, 140, 142, 152, 154, 156, 158, 161, 164, 171, 174, 177, 194, 210, 216, 217, 219, 222, 223, 229, 233, 235, 237, 240, 241, 244, 248, 251, 252, 260, 263, 264, 276, 278, 281, 286, 296, 306, 308, 315, 325, 328, 329 338, 365, 378, 380, 381, 382, 384, 387, 391, 395, 397, 401, 403, 416, 422, 427, 432, 433, 441, 442, 447, 451, 456, 468, 472, 474 police attempts 197 police cell 219 police chased by violent badger 311 police chiefs 438 Police Constabularies 92 police disturb mystery gunman 403 police fight with hunt fans 424 police forces 38, 445 police have name of suspect 194 police helicopter hunts panther-like animal 285 police helicopter may track hunts 466 police horse 331 police marksman 81, 192, 284 police marksmen hunting big cats 281 police morale 32 police officers 74 police powers 194 police probe 360 police probe dog attack 397 police probe hunt incident 375 police probe osprey shooting 402 police probe peregrine death 439 police raid estate 380 police recover eggs haul 207 police scratching their heads 230 police services 36 police shoot raging animal 410 police squad 130 police state-style black propaganda 119 police stations 2, 61 police surgeries 301 police turnout 'very low' 471 police warn livestock owners 435 Police Wildlife Liaison Officers 72 police wildlife officers 117 Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food 183, 229, 298 political agenda 129 political correctness 124 political cynicism 293, 438 political interference 139 politically correct climate 63 politician 137 politicians 93, 99, 101, 126, 170, 200, 223, 247, 265, 321 Pollard, Andrew 326 Pollard, Freda 28 pollarded beech trees 350 pollen 361 pollen season 290 pollen sources 124 pollinating crops 124 pollinators of crops 328 polling day 126 pollutants 143 pollution - guilty companies 54 pollution 104, 143 pollution by nappies 291 pollution catastrophe 217 pollution culprits escape 361 pollution disaster fears 475 pollution nipped in the bud 158 pollution source 213 Polperro 3 polychlorinated biphenyls 70 polypropylene 374 pomarine 311 Pomfret, Ed 293, 312, 366, 418 pond 7 pong 27, 75 ponies 224, 241, 251, 416, 444 ponies abandoned 145 Pontarddulais 403 Pontypridd 224 pony 140 pony clubs 189 pony, Peggy Blue 35 pony, Tilly 140 pony-trekked 390 pony-trekking business 68 poodle 281 Poolbrook 223 Poole 191 Poole fisherman 289 Poole Harbour 289, 297, 303, 379, 384 Poole Harbour Yacht Club 289, 303 Poole RSPB 47 pools of blood 37 Pope, Alexander 166 poplar 412 poplar timber 404 poplar tree 404 poppies 300, 321, 413 popular bull seal threatened 388 popularity of shooting 261 Porfell Animal Land 265 pork 8, 40 pork industry 8 pork pate 8 pork producers 40 porpoise carcasses 283 porpoises 86, 157, 161, 183, 196, 222, 239, 290, 421, 462 porpoises washed up 373 Porritt, Jonathon 235 port expansion scheme 181 port health authorities 173, 225 port health officers 173 Port Isaac 218 port plans rejected 396 Port Talbot 140, 370 Portcullis House 253, 261, 353 Porter, Dr Keith 342 Porter, Mary 393 Porthleven 3 Porthmadog 416 Porto 368 ports authorities 365 ports Bill 373 Portugal 16, 90, 190, 253, 314, 368, 394 Possible Impacts of Grey Squirrels on Birds and Other Wildlife 384 post mortems on coursed hares 194 Post Office 14 post office chiefs 47 post office closures 213 post office decline 225 post offices 2, 14, 15, 47, 73, 229, 310 post-Christmas 6 post-election mass cull 135 post-mortemed hares 204 postmasters 29, 47 postmen nicknamed 'robins' 273 pot-bellied pigs 115 potassium 432 potato crops 79, 128 potato disease found 359 potato farmers face disaster 359 potato growers 165 potatoes 34, 165, 219, 359, 445 pots called dolia 472 Potten End 118 Potter, Harry 178, 179 potting clays 28 Poulton 392 poultry 52 poultry bird flu fears 474 Poultry Committee 61 poultry experts 134 poultry farmers 453 poultry housing 6 poultry industry 462 poultry meat 61 Poultry Meat Federation 135 poultry producers 462 poultry units 6 poultry worth £1,674 million per year 462 pound 134 power stations 54 powerful low-frequency sounds 86 Powys 129, 157, 350, 404, 426 Powys Castle 468 Powys County Council 445 PPL Therapeutics 22, 46 Prague zoo 13 Pratt, Mike 465 prayed 354 prayers 61 pre-BSE levels 78 pre-cull figures 191 pre-election polls 131 pre-smolts 209 predation by cats and dogs 180 Predation Control Studies 315 predation rate of open nests 384 predator control 235 pregnant cow goes walkabout 288 pregnant ewes 116 pregnant wife 65 prehensile tail 467 prehistoric 287 prehistoric farmers 282 Premier 112, 115, 129, 193 premium beef 87 Prentice, Gordon 37, 54 preparation of game 427 Prescott, John 11, 43, 46, 51, 59, 62, 68, 83, 86, 113, 239, 278, 289, 321, 410, 436, 439 Prescott, Sir Mark 15, 447 Prescott-topia 289 presedation to the point of coma 148 Presidency of the EU 45 Presidential Palace 78 Presteigne 157 Prestige 271 Preston 296 Preston, Dawn 2, 8 Preston, Ian 409 previously unrecorded colony 363 price discrepancy 253 Price, Anthony 103 prickly mammals in throes of passion 161 Priddis, David 135 priests 85 primary school 12 primary school teachers 144 prime badger habitat 260 prime estuary habitats 21 Prime Minister 4, 14, 15, 21, 41, 47, 56, 66, 73, 78, 94, 115, 125, 127, 140, 203, 221, 293, 393, 401, 474 primrose 196, 236, 307 Prince Albert of Saxony 366 Prince Charles 22, 256, 286, 291 Prince Consort 366 Prince of Wales 286 Prince William 6 Princess Anne 77, 291 Princess Royal 291 Principality's most important forests 199 principle and evidence 286 principle of tolerance 87 Prinknash Bird and Deer Park 236 prints belonged to a puma 474 Prison Service 177 prison-based stud farm 117 private country police squads 130 private llama owners 226 private member's Bill 21, 42, 163, 360 privately owned woodlands 343 privately-owned forest 102 privet hedge 332 prize-winning stallion 349 pro-democracy organisation 82 pro-hunt 2, 209, 211 pro-hunt campaigners 244 pro-hunt extremists 304 pro-hunt groups 90, 274, 278, 427, 433, 438 pro-hunt lobby 233 pro-hunt protesters 424 pro-hunt stance 271 pro-hunt supporters 367, 401, 406 pro-hunt voters 393 pro-hunter 95 pro-hunters 94, 95, 107, 203, 324 pro-hunting Labour MP 286 pro-hunting lobby 322 pro-hunting MPs 292 pro-hunting peers 325 Probert, Chris 19 procurator-fiscal 308 Prodi, Romano 239 Prodohl, Dr Paulo 353 producers 6, 32, 51 production costs for eggs and poultry meat 61 production-based subsidies 20 professional mole-hunters 182 Professor Emeritus 429 programme of eradication 25 promoting fishing 295 propaganda hallmarks 119 proposal to lift beef embargo 463 prospective parliamentary candidates 101 Prosser, Gwyn 31 Prosser, Jacqueline 261 Protected Geographical Indication 331 Protecting Hedgerows for Birds 393 Protection of Animals Act 122 Protection of Badgers Act 155, 170, 260, 292 Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 244, 308, 333, 433 protesters 100 protocol on access 211 proved ownership 67 Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 83 Prozac 160 ptarmigan 58, 62, 229 pub 58, 198 pub protest 285 public enemy number one 362 Public Service Agreement 71 public transport 213 pubs 196, 310 puffin 456 puffins 5, 10 163, 183, 254, 267, 269, 411, 446 puma 151, 158, 474 puma 92, 109, 130 puma-like animal 251 puma-like cat 285 puma-like creature 83, 151 puma-type animal hunted 338 pumas 281, 422 Pumpsaint 342 pungent pelts 37 pungent plants 240 pupping beaches 64 pupping season 64 puppy 116 Purbeck 168 Purbeck District Council 168, 180, 191 Purbeck Estate 326 Purdey shotguns 193 purple hairstreak butterfly 455 purple moor grass 161 purple orchid 307 purple sandpiper 330 Purvis, Bill 347 Purvis, Julian 85 pygmy shrew 382 pygmyweed 264 Pymore 75 pyres 135