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email this page to a friendNew planning bill splits rural opinion
Wednesday 28 November 2007THE GOVERNMENT'S controversial new planning bill published yesterday aimed at speeding up England's lumbering planning system has already caused a major split between countryside organisations.
CPRE attacks Yorks house building plans
Tuesday 27 November 2007PLANS to build almost half a million new homes in Yorkshire and the Humber in the next twenty years are based on "unproven" economic forecast and would "put a huge strain on the region," says the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
Anger mounts over bio-security lapses
Monday 26 November 2007ANGER continued to mount over the weekend about alleged lapses of bio-security measures affecting both foot and mouth and avian 'flu outbreaks.
History comes alive for school children
Monday 26 November 2007MORE than 100 children from three North Yorkshire primary schools had a three-day history lesson with a difference thanks to staff at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes.