Youth angling club Kingfisher Piscatorials are rallying behind the country's leading bird rescue sanctuary after its local told crusading leader Dorothy Beeson to get off their land by 2004 so they could use it for development. Dot was awarded a British Empire Medal for the work, after selling her name to turn a former rubbish dump into Surrey's Egham Swan Sanctuary.
She is continually nursing Birds back to health after injuries by sick vandals, boats, bridges and anglers tackle amongst others.
Steve Gray a National Federation of Anglers coach and leader of local Sunbury based Kingfisher, said: We set up our petition of own back and we all agree these places are Fundamentally important to the environment. To my knowledge we are the only angling club to have visited the sanctuary and I saw it as a shock treatment for the kids. I was worried how embracing they would be but the were pleased to talk and take time out. Anglers need to keep building bridges like this.