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Country diary: Bere Alston, Tamar ValleyGuardian Unlimited | 23 Feb 2011The tidal Tamar flows in a tight meander near Hooe beneath the steep woods and coverts of Pentillie and around the expansive mud bank off Clifton. From the narrow peninsula within this river loop are short views across to more familiar territory on the Cornish side - to Halton Quay with its lime...
Wales | Local Issues Country diary: AberystwythGuardian Unlimited | 07 Jan 2011The sea was pitted with soft rain and almost motionless, with only the slightest fringe of breaking water on the shoreline. Looking out from the beach at dusk, the grey murk that had hung over the coast all day severely foreshortened the view. Subtle graduations of tone merged sea and sky almost...
Wales | Local Issues Ministers reveal list of 142 court closuresEpolitix.com | 14 Dec 2010The government will close 93 magistrates' courts and 49 county courts in England and Wales, the Commons has heard. Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly made a statement to MPs on the planned shake-up of the courts service in England and Wales. Only 15 courts included in the government's consultation are due to be saved. The minister said he was "determined" to develop a proper court service" and for £22m of capital to be reinvested to "improve and modernise courts in the future".
England | Wales | Local Issues | National Policies and Environmental Laws | Policy Country Diary: PorthmadogGuardian Unlimited | 11 Dec 2010Gnarled fingers of geology, gloved with dense woodland of sessile oak, stretch out from peaks south of Snowdon into Traeth Mawr. On the map they look like a left hand, palm up, the thumb abutting Pont Briwet at the head of Traeth Bach - the great strand and the little strand. As recently as two...
Wales | Local Issues Sustainable food in WalesGuardian Unlimited | 21 Oct 2010Sustainability is at the heart of the Welsh food industry - but what does that actually mean? In the foothills of the Black Mountains, on the edge of the small village of Felindre near Hay-on-Wye, Wales, Paul Benham works 1.5 acres of what once was unproductive grazing land. Primrose Organic Farm...
Wales | Agriculture and Fisheries | Organic Farming Welsh assembly unveils revised badger cull plansGuardian Unlimited | 20 Sep 2010Assembly says it can overcome an appeal court verdict that halted the cull by meeting tests that prove 'destruction' of badgers is necessary. Brian May: A senseless badger cull won't save the UK's cows. Wales will attempt to push ahead with revised plans for a badger cull after previously losing a legal battle with wildlife campaigners, the Welsh assembly said today.
Wales | Biodiversity | Livestock Country diary: Harlech, GwyneddGuardian Unlimited | 17 Sep 2010The sands of the two estuaries, and the danger of them, once known begin to exert a powerful fascination. Their ever-changing nature, the brief time available for instinctive assessment of viability in a crossing, the sudden surge of the tide, the sculpted allure of the submarine sand bars by which...
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