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04 August 2007

Pirbright lab could be foot-and-mouth source

Scientists analysing the virus responsible for the Surrey foot-and-mouth disease outbreak have revealed it may have come from their own site.The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this evening issued a statement saying the strain is used at the Pirbright laboratory of the Institute of Animal Health (IAH) and a pharmaceutical company Merial Animal Health Ltd, which shares the site.

05 August 2007

Bad weather knocks back Snowdon project

Strangely, workers building the new Snowdon mountain-top café have encountered high winds which have put the construction schedule back by two weeks.An impression of how Hafod Eryri will look We know you’ll find it hard to believe, but weather on the 1,067m summit of Wales’s highest peak has been a bit harsher than at valley level.

02 August 2007

TV feast for mountain lovers as comedian hits the heights

Britain’s mountains hit the small screen again soon with a series devoted to the wild uplands.Griff Rhys-Jones will present the BBC series Mountain BBC/IWC MediaComedian and actor Griff Rhys-Jones will present Mountain, which the BBC says is part of its Ultimate Outdoors season.

19 July 2007

National trail for North-West would be England's longest

Plans are afoot to create England’s longest national trail.The proposed North-West Coastal Trail would be nearly 400km longer than the existing longest tail, the South West Coast Path.

11 July 2007

Lakeland campers found guilty of murder conspiracy

Four of the men photographed by Special Branch police taking part in exercises in the Lake District have been found guilty of conspiracy to murder.Police surveillance pictures of the group on the campsite in Great Langdale A jury at Woolwich Crown Court today delivered its verdict on Muktar Said Ibrahim, Hussain Osman, Ramzi Mohammed and Yassin Hassan Omar.

10 July 2007

Lakeland charity walkers give rescuers busy weekend

Ill-equipped charity walkers have caused more headaches for rescuers this weekend.Unseasonably severe weather caught out Three Peaks Challengers tackling Scafell Pike in the Lake District with 20 members of the Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team out on England’s highest fell for more than six hours helping walkers in distress. The road in Wasdale, choked by parked vehicles of challenge participants Picture by Wasdale MRT Their rescue efforts were hampered by the numerous cars and minibuses clogging the country lane in Wasdale, making it difficult to get rescue vehicles into position.

01 July 2007

Have you seen a Scots mountain hare?

Conservationists are asking for walkers’ help in recording sightings of a rare Scottish mountain dweller.The Game Conservancy Trust wants details of numbers of mountain hares spotted while our on the hills.

28 June 2007

Pictures from the Three Peaks Race 2007

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30 April 2007

Footpath closures begin as second disease outbreak announced

Government scientists have identified a second outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease within the protection zone already in place.

07 August 2007

TGO strike off as talks resume

Journalists working for The Great Outdoors magazine have suspended strike action after managers agreed to reopen talks.Members of the National Union of Journalists working for Newsquest in Glasgow, publishers of the magazine, had walked out on Friday morning.

04 August 2007

Dispute escalates at TGO publishers

Journalists on one of Britain’s best known outdoors magazines are embroiled in an increasingly bitter dispute.Managers at USA-owned Newsquest, which has The Great Outdoors – TGO among its publications, faced a walk-out by 200 staff at its Glasgow offices, home of TGO, after it asked for £3m-worth of cuts and imposed compulsory redundancies.Now it has suspended a workplace representative of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) after he refused a meeting with two managers unless he was accompanied by a colleague.

31 July 2007

Life sentences for bombers who trained in Lakeland

The four men who took part in a Lake District training camp before attempting a bombing campaign in London were sentenced to life imprisonment today.They will all be pensioners before they are considered for release; the judge told them they would serve a minimum of 40 years.

11 July 2007

Highland wood owners must open path to bikers

After recent setbacks in Scottish access hearings comes a small victory for access campaigners.The owners of a Black Isle wood have been ordered to remove obstacles that prevented bike and horse riders using a track.

10 July 2007

Gloag access case: Ramblers will not appeal

The Ramblers’ Association in Scotland says it will not appeal against the court decision which banned the public from a millionaire’s land.Stagecoach bus magnate Ann Gloag, whose fortune is estimated at £400m, persuaded Sheriff Michael Fletcher to grant her an exclusion from right-to-roam laws at her Kinfauns Castle estate near Perth.

05 July 2007

Campaign continues against Welsh wind farm

Campaigners have vowed to fight on after a council approved an application to build a wind farm at a Welsh beauty spot.Carmarthenshire County Council gave the green light to plans to erect 16 wind turbines on Mynydd y Betws (Betws Mountain), near Ammanford in south Wales.

01 July 2007

Benn takes over environment as Miliband moves up

As predicted by grough, Environment Secretary David Miliband has been promoted upwards by new Prime Minister Gordon Brown.David Miliband, promoted from Environment Secretary to Foreign Secretary by Gordon Brown His successor in the hot seat is former International Development Secretary Hilary Benn, son of the elder statesman of the Left Tony Benn.

28 June 2007

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28 May 2007

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