MPA RESTORATION AWARDS WINNERS 2019 JOINT WINNER of Cooper-Heyman Cup for outstanding restoration: Aggregate Industries Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Middlemarch Environmental and Greenfields Countryside Ltd - Ripon City Quarry, Ripon, North Yorkshire. Tarmac - Broom Quarry, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. HIGHLY COMMENDED Hills Quarry Products, Shornecote Quarry, South Cerney, Gloucestershire. Aggregate Industries, Venn Quarry, Landkey, Barnstaple. COMMENDED Raymond Brown Quarry Products - Binnegar Quarry, Wareham, Dorset. Hanson - Horcott Quarry, Fairford, Gloucestershire. Tarmac - Loudounhill (Allanton Plain) Quarry, nr Darvel, East Ayrshire. Hanson - West Knighton Quarry Complex, Dorchester, Dorset. Island Barn Aggregates (CEMEX and Tarmac) - Molesey Reservoirs, West Molesey, Surrey. MPA SPECIAL AWARD George McDonic - Lifetime contribution to high quality restoration and commitment to the MPA Restoration Awards. Ron Foster - Minerals industry pioneer for Nature. MPA BIODIVERSITY AWARDS WINNERS 2019 LANDSCAPE SCALE IN ASSOCIATION WITH NATURAL ENGLAND WINNER NATURAL ENGLAND AWARD Aggregate Industries in partnership with RSPB - Venn Ottery Quarry, Venn Ottery, Exeter, Devon. HIGHLY COMMENDED AND RUNNER-UP Imerys Minerals and Devon Wildlife Trust - Meeth Quarry, Hatherleigh, Devon. COMMENDED Sibelco - Headon and Shaugh Clay Quarries, Ivybridge, Plymouth. Brett Aggregates and Romney Marsh Partnership - Lydd Quarry, Jury's Gap, Lydd, Kent. MPA SPECIAL AWARD Mary Lane, Sibelco - for personal commitment and driving mire restoration at Headon and Shaugh Clay Quarries. INNOVATION WINNER Hanson, The Parks Trust, Milton Keynes - Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve (Manor Park Quarry) Wolverton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire - Creation of dynamic floodplain forest. HIGHLY COMMENDED AND RUNNER-UP Hanson and High Batts Nature Reserve - Ripon Quarry, North Stainley, nr Ripon, North Yorkshire - ‘In at the Start' community engagement. COMMENDED Hanson & Bath Spa University & University of the West of England - Batts Combe Quarry, Cheddar, Somerset - Bench restoration. Aggregate Industries, Somerset County Council, Natural England, Mendip AONB and Somerset Wildlife Trust - Callow Rock Quarry, Shipham Gorge, Cheddar, Somerset - Horseshoe bat foraging habitation compensation. CEMEX, RSPB, BTO and Jamie Dunnings’ Twite Google Group - Dove Holes Quarry, Dove Holes, Buxton, Derbyshire – Radio-tagging twites. CEMEX, RSPB, Conwy County Borough Council, and North Wales Minerals and Waste Planning Service - Raynes Quarry, Old Colwyn, Conwy - Creation of chough habitat. CEMEX, National Museum of Wales and Cardiff Council - Taffs Well Quarry, Pentyrch, Cardiff - Creation of bat caves. Atkins, Tarmac, Wagtail UK and Natural England - Crown Farm Quarry, Sandiway, Cheshire – Great- crested newts conservation dogs. MPA SPECIAL AWARD Tarmac and Cranfield University - Trialling and evaluation of the Defra Biodiversity Metric 2.0 on sand and gravel quarries. PLANNED RESTORATION WINNER CEMEX and Northumberland Wildlife Trust ('Save our Magnificent Meadows' Initiative) - Divethill Quarry Farm Extension Area, Capheaton, Newcastle Upon Tyne. HIGHLY COMMENDED AND RUNNER-UP Aggregate Industries, Peak District National Park Authority, Natural England, Environment Agency and Derbyshire Wildlife Trust - Topley Pike Quarry Restoration, nr Buxton, Derbyshire. COMMENDED Tarmac and Natural Resources Wales - Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Presteigne, Powys. Hanson, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, Natural England, Environment Agency, RSPB and Misson Parish Council Newington - Misson Quarry, Misson, Nottinghamshire. INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTION WINNERS: Brian Beales, CEMEX Wangford and Flixton Quarries. Dave Hellier and Alan Knight, Aggregate Industries, Chard Junction Quarry Nature Reserve. Vaughan Gray, Tarmac Halecombe Quarry. MPA SPECIAL AWARD Martin Crow, formerly Hanson. Martin Layer, Smith and Sons (Bletchington). John Vine, Imerys Minerals Limited. MPA NATURE PHOTO COMPETITION 2019 MEMBERS CATEGORY 1st Dave Soons, Aggregate Industries - Hobby. 2nd Linda Thompson, Irish Salt Mining & Exploration, Kilroot Quarry, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland - Common lizard. 3rd Dave Barnes, Hanson, Almington Quarry, Staffordshire - Stoat. VOLUNTEERS CATEGORY 1st Roy McDonald, Beds, Cambs & Northants Wildlife Trust, Totternhoe Knolls Nature Reserve, Totternhoe, Bedfordshire - Short-eared owl. 2nd John J Kaczanow, Devon Wildlife Trust, Sourton Quarry Nature Reserve, nr Okehampton, Devon - Whiskered bat. 3rd Malcolm Jarvis, Blackhill Quarry, Exeter, Devon - Broad-bodied chaser dragonfly. Ends. .