What's in the issue

Key news in the NCA’s DEFRA campaign this week, as we report on the government’s important concessions over event licences and also that campaign leader Barry Mills has stepped aside (with honour) to be replaced by NCA president Robb Brown. Switching to history, we have a fascinating account of how the popular Dewar show cage for canaries came into being, and budgie man Neil Cawley’s summary of how his career in the fancy got on in the 2010s (up and down!) We learn what it takes to plan and manage a tropical house, and hear from our regulars on zebra finches, native finches, Bengalese and news and views from  both the North-East and South-East regions.