The NSPCC Childrens Charity have teamed up with the world’s biggest football league (not soccer!), to help show the red card to child cruelty.

The winner of the NSPCC’s Premiership text promotion will win a signed shirt from EVERY team in the Barclays Premier League. Texts cost only £1.50 (including the standard rate), with 91p of every donation going directly to the NSPCC’s fight to help children’s lives around the country.

Fulham’s midfield dynamo Jimmy Bullard is fully behind the NSPCC’s stance on zero tolerance to abuse. He said:-

“Playing in a football match, sometimes you’re a minute from the final whistle and you can’t let people down, you just have to keep going. But I reckon a shift taking calls at ChildLine would be a real challenge. Listening to kids of all ages talk about being hit, and abused, that takes a lot of strength. That’s why I’m supporting the NSPCC’s Premiership text promotion and I hope you will too - text today and help change children’s lives.”

To enter, simply text ‘NSPCC’ to 87121 to be in with a chance of winning the 20 signed Premiership shirts. And remember, your entry not only gives you a chance of winning this great prize, it also helps the fight against child abuse in the U.K.

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The past couple of weeks have been a busy one – between keeping an eye on the whaling issue, the death of common dolphins around the southwest and producing a new cetacean report, there never seems to be enough hours in a day. A worrying piece of news we received is that by 2012, Busch Entertainment Corporation and Nakheel, a major Dubai real estate developer, will develop ‘World of Discovery’, a major theme park which will include Sea World, Discovery Cove, Busch Gardens and Aquatica. Like other SeaWorld parks the new Dubai facility will include killer whales and dolphins which is a huge concern as to where the animals will be sourced from.  

I was delighted to read about the Daily Mail’s “Banish the Bags” campaign. We live in a very out of sight, out of mind society and although recycling is being promoted, the average person uses over 280 plastic bags a year. Recycling rates of plastic bags globally stand at only 1% and with four trillion bags handed out around the world! The choices we make each day as to what we buy, how we travel and the lifestyle habits we adopt all have an environmental impact.

On a brighter note it’s lovely to see the lighter evenings coming in and soon it will be spring, the parks are already full of lovely daffodils which never fail to brighten my day as I walk to work. I’ll also be able to post to this blog from my lunch break in the park using unlimited mobile broadband.

All the best Liz,

 Marine Connection - Protecting Dolphins and Whales Worldwide

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