Barn owls 'threatened' by new legislation

Barn owls, red kites and corncrakes could be killed as invasive species under the Infrastructure Bill, claim experts from the Zoological Society of London.

Twenty four experts from the Zoological Society of London and other organisations including the Natural History Museum and University of Oxford, made the warnings in an open letter to the Government about the potential dangers of the bill, which is published in the journal Nature.

Read more about this insanity here: Daily Telegraph 

Perfect Pair of Acronyms...

On a fairly regular basis The Daily Telegraph receives correspondence from readers about the railways. Some of these letters are very funny.

In August 2011 one such reader wrote:
"SIR - it is a surprise to me that while rail companies call their passengers 'customers' and trains 'services' they still use the outmoded 'stations' and 'platforms'. Perhaps customers of this newspaper can suggest modern alternatives."

Two days later the following response was published:

"SIR - How about ' Customer Regional Assembly Point' and 'Customer Rallying And Migration Pier'? In the interests of brevity, acronyms could be substituted."

Absolutely priceless.....