Sentences with phrase «time gamekeepers»

There are around 5,000 full - time gamekeepers employed in the UK, with many more keepers working part time, managing around six million hectares — a land area roughly equivalent in size to Scotland.

Forty years ago, shooting and poisoning birds of prey was widespread, and the killing invariably blamed on old - time gamekeepers, men born and bred to view birds of prey as the enemy.

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Yet Johnson, a former union leader himself, has curiously decided that now is the time to rake over the coals of Labour's recent leadership contest and called for union influence over the party to be further reduced, thus proving the old adage that former poachers make worse gamekeepers.

RADIO TIMES — Richard Madden takes on the role of gamekeeper Oliver Mellors in BBC1's lush adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover yesterday night.

In this show — split between the gallery and Edlin's booth at Frieze New York (4 - 7 May)-- the artist Summer Wheat takes inspiration from the role of the gamekeeper since Medieval times.

For a very long time, gamekeepers used to wantonly shoot peregrine falcons and other raptors that prey on grouse and the like in the UK.

Officially known as Teversal Manor, the six - bedroom house is referenced many times in the 1928 novel because it's where Constance Chatterley lives with her paralysed husband Clifford, and from which she tiptoes out at night to meet her gamekeeper lover, Oliver Mellors.