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		<title>Poisoned red kite is ninth to die in County Wicklow, Ireland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Belfast Telegraph is reporting that another red kite has been confirmed illegally poisoned &#8211; the ninth kite to be killed this way in County Wicklow, Ireland. According to the report, the breeding female (known as Blue Purple G &#8211; her wing tag code) was found by Brittas Bay late last year. She was one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12332624&amp;post=3101&amp;subd=raptorpersecutionscotland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alice in Wonderland: curiouser and curiouser!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you sitting comfortably children? Then I&#8217;ll begin&#8230; Once upon a time there was a girl called Alice, who fell down a rabbit hole and entered a fantasy world (&#8216;Wonderland&#8217;) where everyone spoke gibberish and nothing made sense. In Wonderland, (also known as the Countryside Alliance HQ), Alice thought it was &#8220;absurd&#8221; that those evil-doers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12332624&amp;post=3086&amp;subd=raptorpersecutionscotland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Unscrupulous liars&#8217; in the Glenn Brown gamekeeper trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the report that convicted gamekeeper Glenn Brown lost his appeal yesterday (see here), one of the RSPB investigators has blogged about his experience, and that of his colleagues, in the appeal process. Mark Thomas discusses how he and three other RSPB investigation colleagues (Guy Shorrock, James Leonard and John McMahon) were repeatedly accused of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12332624&amp;post=3079&amp;subd=raptorpersecutionscotland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Man charged with shooting a buzzard has case adjourned until March</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Winn Roberts, 43, of Woodend Meadow, Ballymagorry, Strabane, Northern Ireland, appeared in front of magistrates on the Isle of Wight last Friday (20 January 2012) and pleaded not guilty to intentionally shooting a wild bird (a buzzard) on 26 November 2011 at a quarry in Newport, Isle of Wight. The case was adjourned until 22 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12332624&amp;post=3076&amp;subd=raptorpersecutionscotland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Convicted gamekeeper Glenn Brown loses his appeal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The RSPB reports that Derbyshire gamekeeper Glenn Brown has lost his lengthy appeal against his conviction for seven offences relating to the illegal use  of a baited trap to take birds of prey, the intentional taking of a sparrowhawk, and numerous animal welfare offences. Brown was convicted in June 2011 for the offences that took place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12332624&amp;post=3062&amp;subd=raptorpersecutionscotland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gamekeeper &amp; apprentice avoid jail in cruelty case</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the blog post on December 9th 2011 (see here), gamekeeper Christopher Carter and his apprentice Luke Byrne have been sentenced for their involvement in an horrendous animal cruelty case on the West Acre Estate in Norfolk. See here for the sentencing report published in the Daily Mail. Unbelieveable. The National Gamekeepers&#8217; Organisation has put [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12332624&amp;post=3060&amp;subd=raptorpersecutionscotland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another South Lanarkshire gamekeeper convicted of poison offence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well well well. Another gamekeeper from South Lanarkshire has been convicted of possessing the banned pesticide, Carbofuran. Police were alerted to the location after a member of the public found a poisoned buzzard lying next to a pheasant bait near Loanhead Farm, Lamington, South Lanarkshire, in November 2010. Lab tests by SASA revealed Carbofuran in both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12332624&amp;post=3058&amp;subd=raptorpersecutionscotland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cumbrian man &#8216;not in any way connected&#8217; to red kite deaths</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the blog post on 6 December 2011 (see here), Cumbrian man Allan Armistead appeared at Preston Crown Court on 6 January 2012. Here is what was reported by the &#8216;In-Cumbria&#8217; newsletter: AN investigation into the suspected poisoning and shooting of red kites led to the discovery of breaches of regulations dealing with pesticides and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12332624&amp;post=3051&amp;subd=raptorpersecutionscotland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joke sentence for second-time convicted gamekeeper</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Alexander Whitefield, the former gamekeeper at Culter Allers Estate in South Lanarkshire, was today sentenced following his December 2011 conviction for illegally poisoning four buzzards (see here for conviction report). Before we discuss his latest sentence, let’s remind ourselves of Whitefield’s criminal record: This keeper, who was also a member of the Scottish Gamekeepers’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12332624&amp;post=3047&amp;subd=raptorpersecutionscotland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sat-tagged golden eagle &#8216;disappears&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular blog followers will remember the golden eagle that was found poisoned on Glenbuchat Estate last March (see here). What wasn’t reported at the time was that this young eagle was one of a pair of twins from 2010 being satellite-tracked by the RSPB (unfortunately, the movement maps of these two birds were not made public). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12332624&amp;post=3043&amp;subd=raptorpersecutionscotland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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