The New Labour government has systematically dismantled the wildlife protection and conservation structures since it's been in government. The guys that look after obscure patches of earth and strange species are not effective campaigners, I guess. I never thought it possible that I would be able to praise the Conservative Party but their laws and financial support had put British wildlife research in front of the world - now it's a shambles worthy of an eastern European country. 'To hell in a handcart'. But my appointment with our county PAS officer is in January, so that particular object - a hammerstone that'd been used for dressing a carved stone - will be recorded. Estelle Morris? Waste of space ...