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Peak quarrying worries as firm considers Europe appeal

The long battle to save one of the Peak District’s most contentious stretches of countryside is not over, campaigners have warned.

Cards will help Dales walkers call for help

Help is on the cards for stricken walkers in the Yorkshire Dales. Three volunteer rescue organisations have teamed up to produce a card detailing h...

Election candidates sign up for 'walkers manifesto'

A fifth of would-be MPs have signed up to support a walkers’ manifesto put forward by the Ramblers as the election campaign gets into full gear.

Experts warn walkers: it's still winter on the hills

The calendar may say it’s spring, but in the mountains, it’s still firmly winter. Authorities in Snowdonia warned that full winter gear – inc...

No change for walkers' maps as OS frees data

The long-awaited results of the Government’s Ordnance Survey consultation were announced today. Walkers and outdoor enthusiasts had hoped for a b...

Man dies after being trapped by boulder on Highland mountain

A man has died after becoming trapped by a boulder on a Highland munro. Mountain rescuers joined firefighters in the operation to free the 62-year-...

Coastal access: Ramblers urge action as election looms

Campaigners are pressing for urgency in the setting up of the coastal path round England. The plea came as Natural England, the Government’s offi...

No Cairngorms ban on wild camping

Scotland’s biggest national park will not introduce bylaws to tackle problems caused by wild camping.

Access campaigners win battle with hospital trust

Campaigners fighting for access to an Oxford open space have won a battle against a health trust. A High Court judge rejected an application for ju...

Company boss urges Ordnance Survey rethink on schools charging

The head of the British arm of an international geographic information company urged the national mapping urgency to think again over plans to start charging schools for data.

Everest's height finally settled – sort of

In 1852, an Indian surveyor and mathematician Radhanath Sikdar, clearly calculated that a distant peak in the closed kingdom of Nepal – formerly known as Peak B and then renamed Peak XV – was the highest in the world.

Hill tracks campaign will be subject of Holyrood debate

The problem of Scotland’s burgeoning tracks across wilderness areas will be debated in the Scottish Parliament, thanks to a campaign by the Mountaineering Council of Scotland.

Government 'lost its nerve' on free Ordnance Survey maps

The Ramblers today expressed extreme disappointment with the Government’s failure to provide free maps at scales used by walkers in its move to liberalise the national mapping agency.

Campaigners' ten-point outdoors plan for election

Britain’s oldest national conservation group has produced an access manifesto in the run-up to the general election and is asking candidates to sign up the 10-point plan.

Cash boost for moorland watershed landscape

The wild landscape that inspired the Bronte sisters, poet Ted Hughes and sculptor Henry Moore has received a £1.9m boost towards helping access, restoration and heritage projects.