Beekeeper fights to keep essential shed

AN ORDER by Environment to remove a beekeeper's shed is 'straight out of Spike Milligan', its owner said yesterday.

Former airline pilot John Campbell, who has kept bees in Guernsey for 30 years, said the department had become 'intoxicated by the power of their opinions' and was acting contrary to government agencies worldwide that worked to support the insects.

But a spokesman said that the department had no issue with either beekeeping or the use of a shed to store beekeeping equipment and agreed that bees were important to the island's environment.

Mr Campbell (pictured), who is in his early 60s, has two hives on his property in Torteval and keeps bee equipment such as veils and smokers in the shed.

He said the shed had stood on his property for 80 years without issue.

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