Gundog trainer Emma Mather, 32, and keeper Nathan Bamford, 33, have married near Inverness with a wedding breakfast entirely of local game. The game was sourced solely from local estates that Emma and Nathan work on. Emma, who founded and runs workin

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Combines are rolling across the country and woodpigeons are hitting stubbles hard — there is also a lot of flat barley after the wind and rain. Why not dust off your decoys and dig out your hide nets? Pigeon shooting can be a lot of fun. It’s great s

ST readers will be relieved to learn that the Duchy of Cornwall is set to release a further 30 curlew in July and August, having already released 60 on Dartmoor to date. As with the lapwing — a bird that has suffered a similar decline in Britain and

Last week, I received an email telling me that the Met is very sorry but it will take them at least a year to process my request for a 6.5 Creedmoor. To be totally fair to them, they are always immensely polite and the firearms enquiry officer, when

Two fallow bucks were seen in Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, in the early hours of Monday, 24 July. A Plymouth deer expert said the animals, believed to have weighed about 100kg (15st 10lb) each, could have posed a safety risk. A hospital spokesperson

Cancer is by far the biggest killer of otherwise healthy dogs, just as it is in humans. Many of the cancers dogs suffer from have their equivalent in humans. Older male dogs, for example, may suffer from prostate cancer, as do many men, while the mam

One of Suffolk’s greatest sons, Thomas Gainsborough, died on 2 August 1788. Although famed as a portrait artist, the Sudbury man merely painted people to pay the bills. Gainsborough was in part a misanthrope, disdainful of his wealthy patrons, once w