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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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Figures released to the Countryside Alliance under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed that at least 135,000 new homes in Britain are planned for flood plains or in flood risk areas. The Government changed planning policy in 2006 “to ensure that flood risk is taken into account at all stages in the planning process to avoid inappropriate development in areas at risk of flooding, and to direct development away from areas at highest risk”. This new research, however, reveals the thousands of homes already planned in flood risk areas.
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
The Countryside Alliance membership insurance package provides Personal Accident cover and Employers’, Public and Products Liability cover for eligible members whilst participating in a range of specific country pursuits that are defined as Recognised Activities. The Membership Insurance Programme has been renegotiated and placed with new Underwriters AIG UK Limited effective from 1st January 2008. Click here for more information, summaries of cover and claim forms. |
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was challenged over the huge rise in rod licences for disabled anglers during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday 30th April 2008. The visibly uncomfortable Prime Minister pledged to look into the 37% increase saying: “I will look at the facts…and see what has happened to bring that about”. |
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Friday, 25 April 2008 |
One of Scotland’s leading rural campaigners has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Scottish Countryside Alliance. Geva Blackett joins the SCA after many years in a senior role with the Scottish Gamekeepers Association. |
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
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The management of heather moorland should be the one area where non-shooting conservationists can be unequivocal in their support for shooting. The evidence is overwhelming that on moorland managed for grouse, most importantly through the control of predators and burning of heather, a huge range of other important bird species thrive. |
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
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New research, commissioned by Natural England, into the status of breeding birds in the North Pennine Special Protection Area (SPA) between 2005 and 2007 has revealed that the RSPB’s Geltsdale reserve in Cumbria has some of the lowest densities of birds found anywhere in the region.
The status of “Special Protection Area” (SPA) is an EU Natura 2000 designation which requires measure to be taken to preserve certain at risk bird species. In the case of the North Pennines SPA (1470 sq km), it encompasses 17 smaller Sites of Special Scientific Interest, including the 7967 hectare Geltsdale and Glendue SSSI of which the RSPB manage over 5000 hectares. |
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
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The Countryside Alliance has branded recent plans to impose eco-towns in select locations throughout Britain “short sighted”.
While acknowledging the desperate need for new housing in rural locations, the Alliance has criticised plans to build eco-towns where residents have not been consulted, in areas already struggling to cope with crumbling transport infrastructure and the withdrawal of key services such as local schools and post offices. |
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
The Countryside Alliance has warned DEFRA Secretary of State Hilary Benn that his cash-strapped department will find its coastal access promises difficult to fulfil and the success difficult to measure. |
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
Nine brave ladies enjoyed a weekend of fly fishing at the Arundell Arms in Devon from 28-30 March as participants in Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland, a unique outdoor-based programme specifically designed for women who have, or have had, breast cancer. |
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