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		<title>BBC News &#8211; Suffolk &#8211; Kiln Meadow in Ipswich &#8216;no longer for sale&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Ipswich meadow, home to a large population of toads, will not be put up for sale again for housing, Ipswich Borough Council has announced. Developers had planned to build more than 100 homes on the 11-acre Kiln Meadow in Pinewood before planning permission expired last October. The council has now decided it will look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormice.org/archives/353</link>
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		<title>Kiln Meadow Saved!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ipswich Wildlife Group are delighted with the decision of Ipswich Borough Council’s Executive committee to revoke the decision to sell Kiln Meadow. IWG Chairman Ray Sidaway said: &#8220;The &#8216;Save Kiln Meadow&#8217; campaign has been long and complicated. The low point was when the previous administration decided to sell the site last July without due consideration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormice.org/archives/350</link>
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		<title>Suffolk Wildlife Trust says harvest mice need farmers&#8217; help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Farmers are being asked to create more grass margins around fields to encourage harvest mice. The Suffolk Wildlife Trust (SWT) has been studying the tiny rodent to work out how to increase its numbers. They want to link up grassland, reed bed a riverbank habitats to allow the mice to thrive. Martha Meek, trust project [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormice.org/archives/317</link>
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		<title>Urgent! Save Kiln Meadow!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Save Kiln Meadow for the Dormice! IBC is trying to sell a strip of land on the outskirts of Ipswich,  the land is good habitat for many species and the borders and hedges of the land contain Dormice. Please sign the petition : http://petitions.ipswich.gov.uk/SaveKilnMeadow/ This whole area has a number of wildlife species that should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormice.org/archives/315</link>
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		<title>Salisbury Journal &#8211; Join in the great hunt for nuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Picture by Clare Pengally. WILTSHIRE Wildlife Trust is encouraging people to help locate populations of hazel dormice in the county by looking for nibbled nuts. This is the 21st anniversary of the National Dormouse Monitoring Programme and The People’s Trust for Endangered Species and Natural England have launched the third Great Nut Hunt this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormice.org/archives/169</link>
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		<title>Devon Wildlife Trust &#8211; Devon Dormice Go Nuts Over Funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) has just received funding to help with conservation work to improve the lot of dormice at a number of its nature reserves. The £4986 grant from the Pennon Environment Fund will help the charity’s reserve officers to implement and enhance coppicing regimes at its Andrew’s Wood, Lady’s Wood, Scanniclift Copse, Sourton [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormice.org/archives/238</link>
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		<title>BBC Oxford &#8211; Is the Hazel Dormouse extinct in Oxfordshire?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hazel Dormouse was once widespread in the UK but is now endangered. The People&#8217;s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) and Natural England will attempt to highlight its plight with a treasure hunt. Locals are being asked to search their local woods for gnawed hazelnuts, a typical sign of the vulnerable species. PTES have hidden [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormice.org/archives/262</link>
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		<title>Forestry Commision &#8211; Volunteers wanted to help dormice box clever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nature lovers are being invited to give rare dormice a helping hand in Chambers Farm Wood. Repairs have been carried out on nearly 60 wooden nesting boxes which the tree climbing creature uses to rear its young during summer and willing volunteers are needed to help erect them in the 360 hectare (900 acre) woodland, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormice.org/archives/259</link>
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		<title>Ipswich &#8211; Your Toads Need YOU!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year volunteers escorted almost 7000 toads across Bobbits Lane in a 3 week period, stopping them from being run over by the passing traffic. You are invited to an Introductory meeting on Wednesday 16th February 2011 At the Pinewood Community Centre at 7:30pm We will outline how and why we do the Toad Patrol [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormice.org/archives/277</link>
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		<title>Dormice on the Doorstep &#8211; a fantastic wildlife discovery.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent months Dormice have unexpectedly been found on Ipswich&#8217;s fringes: in Spring Wood, Millennium wood, the trees in Kiln Meadow and in the hedge along Bobbits Lane, just to the south of Ipswich. This is a fantastic find of a European protected species in a wildlife area we have been looking after for many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormice.org/archives/271</link>
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