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Paddleboarders, dogs jumping in, people swimming \u2013 all enjoying our local river (Devon campaigners call for \u2018right to riverbank\u2019 after finding Dart has 108 owners, 29 July), but our kingfisher family have disappeared, and otters no longer seen. Let\u2019s leave much of our riverbanks to the natural world, which we are destroying so fast. As an expat Millwall supporter I took exception to Jonathan Freedland\u2019s comparison of Millwall fans with a murderous, vengeful nation like Israel (1 August). It had a humorous side, but this jarred when thousands of humans are being killed and injured. If Edinburgh University should unadopt the unworkable International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism (Letters, 29 July) it could do no better than use Stephen Sedley\u2019s: \u201cAntisemitism is hostility towards Jews as Jews.\u201d Seven words; no argument. \u201cHe is so chill,\u201d says the mother of a baby born from an embryo frozen in 1994 (Report, 31 July). I\u2019m not surprised. In response to your article (Neanderthals were not \u2018hypercarnivores\u2019 and feasted on maggots, scientists say, 25 July), Joan Clibbon\u2019s book Cooking the British Way quotes Daniel Defoe on how stilton was served thick with mites and maggots, which were eaten with a special spoon. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paddleboarders, dogs jumping in, people swimming \u2013 all enjoying our local river (Devon campaigners call for \u2018right to riverbank\u2019 after finding Dart has 108 owners, 29 July), but our kingfisher family have disappeared, and otters no longer seen. Let\u2019s leave much of our riverbanks to the natural world, which we are destroying so fast.Elaine FullardOxford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[6847,4449,7529,2616],"class_list":{"0":"post-13860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-riverbanks","9":"tag-rivers","10":"tag-roam","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Elaine Fullard<\/strong>
Oxford<\/em><\/p>\n
Peter Skinner<\/strong>
Corvallis, Oregon, US<\/em><\/p>\n
Rosalind Clayton <\/strong>
London<\/em><\/p>\n
Toby Wood <\/strong>
Peterborough <\/em><\/p>\n
Lorna Bushell<\/strong>
Lichfield<\/em><\/p>\n