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Foot & Mouth Breaks Out in Egham |
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Written by Peter Burgess
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 |
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 At least 8,000 sheep are stuck at Bakewell Agricultural Business Centre in the Derbyshire Peak District and 1,300 cattle are stranded in Carlisle. Farmers will only be allowed to move their sheep if Defra grants a temporary licence. It is just a month since the last outbreak and six years since the national crisis that closed most of the outdoors to the nation's walkers. I guess the government will really need to investigate how best to deal with the F&M situation especially if the frequency of outbreak is going to either continue or even persist. For less affluent hill farmers in this country, these continued outbreaks will be the last straw for an already deflated farming economy.
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| HAVE YOU SEEN? |
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 Since the days when people clung onto their Bartholomews' one inch map of the Lake District a decent map of the whole district has not really been available. However, the BMC has recently published its very own map aimed it says for climbers, hill walkers and mountaineers. Does this map prove useful or is it not worth the paper it's printed on? Oh! That's the thing, it's not printed on paper....
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 Having a brand is the new buzz word and I am afraid that AW has become a brand. Sadly, and I am sure he would hate this, when people mention AW in fellwalking circles, their ears prick up. Of course AW is to be admired, but when people start to abuse this name many years after his death I begin to feel that they might just have lost the plot. Although for anyone unfamiliar to AW, this book might be useful, however to most of us I think that investment in a very large barge pole will be the order. I don't want to slate the company that saved the Wainwright guides but come on Frances Lincoln, let's have some originality if you are going to use the great fellwalker's name to sell a book! |
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