In mid June 2007, I went to the Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve in W. Sussex to help my wife.

In the July 2006 number of Mollusc World I wrote about the absence of clausiliid snails in the otherwise very rich woods within the Sheffield city boundaries.

Travelling back from Cumbria in early February, I decided to stop off at Bolton-le-Sands at the top of Morecambe Bay to stretch my legs.

We all know the sort of damage slugs and snails can cause to our favourite garden plants.

Ian Killeen is currently surveying mussels, and has been for most of this summer, and so I have stepped in to put together this issue.