On the badger baiting, definitely worth getting in touch with the Notts wildlife crime officer about, don't know the current one but they're usually very keen to hear about suspicious finds like that.
That consultation document is quite an interesting read, especially some of the responses section. I'm not sure what people expect when they say they want 'The Story of Robin Hood' to feature more prominently, I mean it's not really history or tangible heritage, is it?
It's clear what the locals think to these proposals - and it's not much. All that money spent on the new visitor centre and now the local councils wants to throw more at commercialising Robin Hood to the detriment of Edwinstowe and the surrounding countryside.
As for:
'Can you do something about the man who walks his dog completely nude in the forest'
Perhaps the local council should persuade tribalbrit buy his dog a coat - that way the poor animal won't have to walk nude.
By the way, did Robin Hood really wear those clothes on a warm summer's day while tramping through Sherwood Forest? I doubt it!
@tribalbrit I have no idea how you found this I have ploughed through all of the comments and they go on forever. Do you know which page of the pdf it was on
I dont think it's actually on the comments pages just the google heading as far as I can see.
A quick speed read and found it on
Page 52 item 128.
"Can you do something about the man who walks his dog completely nude in the forest and on
budby heath. Its quite disturbing when your out trying to relax and see nature"
Not sure how I stop them relaxing. And seeing nature, what more nature is there if not naturism.
if the hole is “official” it will be surrounded by bollards and safety fences. Doesn’t sound as if it’s that. If it was, as you suggest, following a burrow, someone might have been digging out their terrier that got stuck down there?
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I thought about that but it's been getting bigger since Friday. How long would the dog survive down there?
@tribalbrit I wonder how he feels when he see groups of people out walking together breaking the law.
If you have the details, contact the warden first (before doing anything). It may be something they know about and is legitimate, or something they don't and want the scene untouched.
I reported it to the warden, heard nothing back. Hole is still there but not getting any bigger.
Spade still in the hole, not a very good one though or someone would have had it by now.
Wouldn't want to be walking at dusk unaware of hole , you could break your neck.
Had a wander over that way while out today and the hole has been filled in and a sign attached to a nearby tree, telling the diggers that they are breaking the law and risking their lives as the area is littered with live ordnance from the MOD days
' ... a sign attached to a nearby tree, telling the diggers that they are breaking the law and risking their lives as the area is littered with live ordnance from the MOD days'.
That is a measure of just how stupid the official mind is; that it thinks we are so stupid as to believe such signs.
Actually it has been know for live ordnance to be found in the area, not for a while but it has been known.
The whole area used to be a no go area asi t was a training ground for the MOD
@tribalbrit As children we used to play on the tanks and often found live ammunition which we used to play with. We had no idea how dangerous it was and would often take bullets apart to set light to the gun powder. Over 60 years ago life was very different to the way it is now. Young people today have no perspective of how things were in the past. I still find live bullets in the forest even now and an incendiary device was found last year at the side of a footpath that had been cleared with heavy machinery, the area was closed off and the device was blown up.
@jorrox Please believe such signs. This area used to be part of the Proteus Army Training Camp until about 20 years ago. I also believe it was heavily used by armed forces during the Second World War as a convenient hideaway. Many of the concrete roads installed at that time are still visible and in places form part of the network of paths used today in this section of Sherwood Forest.