This week, a RSPB member sent our campaigns team a copy of a letter that he had found in his father's Bible. The letter was dated March 1955 and was from PE Brown, Secretary of the RSPB. This is what it said,
"The Secretary of State has given notice of his intention to make an order withdrawing protection from the eggs of 13 commons and harmless birds, including the Robin, Chaffinch, Linnet and Wren. The Society is…