Countryside Alliance - love the countryside

You will remember that cosmetics firm Lush took the strange decision to go into partnership with the Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) last year, donating the funds from selling an interesting smelling aniseed soap to the HSA.

The Countryside Alliance has criticised as “knee jerk” a government report which suggests children should not have contact with animals at open farms. The Griffin report was set up after the 2009 E-coli outbreak in which ninety three people, including children, became ill. It has today laid out recommendations to prevent such an outbreak happening in the future.

The National Assembly for Wales report into Access to Inland Water, published today, will “protect angling whilst promoting access” and will be welcomed by the angling community says the Countryside Alliance. The National Assembly’s Sustainability Committee has concluded its year long inquiry by rejecting calls for a ‘right to paddle’ and recommending the expansion of voluntary access agreements.