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Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Simon Hart writes: On Tuesday the Government launched a consultation on ‘Dangerous Dogs’ with a fanfare of media coverage about a 12 fold increase in dog fighting and a rising number of dog attacks on postal workers. These issues may, as Ministers suggest, be of growing public concern, but some of the ‘solutions’ proposed in the consultation bare little, if any, relation to the problems they are supposed to address.

Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Simon Hart writes: The Moorlands Association this week released an Uplands Manifesto, which makes a number of important recommendations to the next Government about safeguarding our precious moorlands. Unsurprisingly it identifies shooting and related moorland management as the beating heart of English and Welsh uplands.

Game- to-Eat is delighted that, for the second year running, it is to be the main sponsor of the Living Heritage country shows. The thirteen show schedule kicks off in Thame on the weekend of 3rd April and then moves around the country until October 2010. The Living Heritage shows are the ideal platform to show a new audience how versatile game is, and Chefs Rob Marles and Tony Robertson will be showcasing their skills. To accommodate the interest in cooking game the demonstration theatre will be bigger and better with even more seating this year. Read on for dates and venues....

Natural England’s decision to remove two gull species – the Herring Gull and the Greater Black-Backed Gull – from English General Licences has been met with disappointment by the Countryside Alliance. The decision was announced as part of Natural England’s response to its recent consultation on General Licences.