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Just been speaking to Brian Mead who runs the Blackpool Show and he is urging people to send their entries in as normal as he is optomistic that the ban will soon be lifted,should the show be cancelled all entry fees would be returned anyway,so that is the good news!!

The bad news is that from 2008 individual membership of the RPRA will go up from the current £4.50 a year to £10,that's what you call inflation!!

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why so much ?

 

Another source told me some people didn't realise what they were voting for when it was proposed!,can you believe that?

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I hope it goes ahead Chrissy as I want to get rid of all these Prizes I have for the Young Fanciers Section as it will make my bedroom a little bigger :)

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only private membership is going up ......if your a member of a club rpra membership is £4.50..still will be in 2008

Guest TAMMY_1
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Just been speaking to Brian Mead who runs the Blackpool Show and he is urging people to send their entries in as normal as he is optomistic that the ban will soon be lifted,should the show be cancelled all entry fees would be returned anyway,so that is the good news!!

The bad news is that from 2008 individual membership of the RPRA will go up from the current £4.50 a year to £10,that's what you call inflation!!

 

Regarding what you term as the good news part, today I  was telephoned by the local ADH office today, and the same lady who called me last week to tell me all shows were cancelled, informed that because there had been another outbreak of flu that it was unlikely the ban would be lifted in the near future, and not to make any plans at all to hold our show, seems conflicting to what you have posted regards as to  Brian Meade being optimistic.

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Here's the latest from Peter Bryant:

 

Dear All

 

Monday’s meeting with DEFRA was cancelled at the last minute, in the main because of the latest recorded outbreak of AI.  A meeting was held at 2pm yesterday but I was out of the office.  Nevertheless I pulled up into a lay-by to participate in the conference as I had specially asked 2 questions.  

 

The latest on the situation as at 2pm yesterday is that the second outbreak was not a surprise as it was in one of the ‘dangerous contact’ locations already identified.  This is where there is a common denominator between 2 sites i.e. the same workers at both sites.  The chairman seemed quite buoyant that the disease has been relatively contained and they are reviewing the nationwide ban on gatherings daily.  Providing there are no more widespread outbreaks it is possible that we may hear something by the end of the week.  I stress ‘possibly’.  

 

 

 

I have today had the first phone call from a member asking me to confirm that racing in 2008 has been cancelled.  This of course is utter rubbish!

 

 

 

Anyway the statement below is the latest I have sent to DEFRA for today’s meeting

 

 

 

Further to yesterday’s meeting where Andrew Jones replied on 2 questions posed.  During my long drive back to the office from the Midlands yesterday afternoon I pondered on the responses given to my questions.

 

 

 

Cats -  To just say that all mammals are at risk is rather an understatement.  The point I was trying to make therefore was that there have been feline casualties of AI in Europe.  There have been no deaths of racing pigeons.  Cats are marauding animals, likely to eat infected birds, racing pigeons are at this time of year contained to their lofts thereby undergoing a self imposed quarantining.

The point about shooting in the restricted and even SZ areas is also inconsistent.  We were stopped from racing because of the threat of racing pigeons picking droppings up mechanically.  How is this any different for the shooting fraternity particularly as you have still not announced the source of the outbreak?  Given that we still have a national ban on bird gatherings I still fail to see the difference between allowing such activities to take place in the SZ/PZ and cancelling gatherings 200 miles away!

 

 

I appreciate that you are reviewing the situation regarding gatherings nationally regularly but there do appear to be inconsistencies in the policy by DEFRA.  Moreover, you will know that we have challenged DEFRA over the status of racing pigeons in the AI legislation yet it is now 3 months today (21 August) since our solicitor wrote to the S of S.  I am not sure if his refusal to respond is contempt for my members or incompetence elsewhere.  Are you able to advise when we may have the courtesy of a response.

 

 

 

Regards

 

 

 

Peter Bryant

 

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only private membership is going up ......if your a member of a club rpra membership is £4.50..still will be in 2008

 

And that is exactly why i am joining 1 of the local flying clubs as a none flying member for £1 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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And that is exactly why i am joining 1 of the local flying clubs as a none flying member for £1 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

good on you chrissy its not fair to charge more for idividual membership every one should be treated the same

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And that is exactly why i am joining 1 of the local flying clubs as a none flying member for £1 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

In some clubs this could mean that you will have to pay the club fees which in our club is£25,then in some cases you will also have to pay the federation fees which again in our club is £6 plus your rpra fee if it doesn,t go up £4.50,you might be better off staying a individual member.

Guest TAMMY_1
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And that is exactly why i am joining 1 of the local flying clubs as a none flying member for £1 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

No the reason you are doing that is because you are so tight  ;) ;) ;D ;D

Guest TAMMY_1
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AND LISTEN TO THE POT CRYING THE KETTLE BLACK. ;D ;D ;D

 

  well that's just me isn' ;D ;Dt it

Guest TAMMY_1
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HA HA HA we know. ;D ;D

 

YOU KNOW TOO MUCH SOMETIMES  :P :P

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