New Editor of CBC News

The Club is very grateful to Eleanor Shield eleanorshield@ukgateway.net for her decision to take on the editorship of CBC News. She will be well known to many members for her spell as secretary of the Club, and also for the years she edited the annual report Birds and Wildlife in Cumbria. We wish her an enjoyable and rewarding spell in the post. Please keep her busy with your contributions!

Welcome also to Bill Pigram who has joined the team as sub-editor; I am most grateful for his work on large parts of this issue.

Derek McAlone and Dave Shackleton continue as regional contacts for the west and east of the county. The arrangement would also be well-served by an editorial contact for the south of the county: someone with local knowledge of the ground and its birds, and of members in that area. Please contact Eleanor if you feel you fit the bill.

Just a final plea, repeated from the last issue. This bulletin will only ever be as good as its contributions: please help the new editor to keep it alive and lively. Short notes, queries and letters, opinions . . . you all have something which would interest other members.

Jeremy Roberts