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email this page to a friendCavers busy again on conservation work
Friday 30 JulyFOLLOWING last month’s building of a stone stile near Browgill, cavers have again been busy on conservation work. This time it was the turn of the wooded valley around Yordas Cave in Kingsdale.
New interim boss for RPA
Friday 30 JulyTHE much-criticised Rural Payments Agency is to have a new temporary boss following the resignation of former chief executive Tony Cooper after the agency was damned for incompetence and poor service by a Government investigation.
Dales grants for broadleaf forestry
Thursday 29 JulyNEW grants have become available for Yorkshire Dales farmers and landowners to encourage them to plant broadleaf trees, it was announced today (July 29).
New pilot scheme launched to open up digital cinema to rural North Yorkshire
Thursday 29 JulyUK Film Council awards new consortium £400,000 to run North Yorkshire Rural Cinema Pilot Scheme.
New advice for grouse moor owners
Wednesday 28 JulyGROUSE shooting is a major industry in North Yorkshire and its two national parks, providing welcome jobs in some of the most remote areas of the county, but owning and maintaining a grouse shoot can be a financial nightmare.
Investors needed for barn conservation project
Wednesday 28 JulyBUSINESSES, individuals and charities are being headhunted to support a unique project to restore and conserve some of the thousands of dilapidated field barns in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Hill farmers join new subsidy scheme
Tuesday 27 JulySOME 2,000 hill farmers have already signed up to the new uplands subsidies scheme which only came into effect at he beginning of July, 500 of them in Yorkshire. Each will receive grants averaging £26,800 over the next five years.
New era for restoring the natural environment
Tuesday 27 JulyTHE White Paper on the Natural Environment provides a real opportunity to lay the foundations of nature conservation for the 21st century, according to The Wildlife Trusts.
Three Peaks award for schoolgirl
Monday 26 JulyA 10-year-old schoolgirl is the latest walker to join a special club in the Yorkshire Dales – after complete the gruelling Three Peaks challenge in 11 hours.
Countryside quangos: the bonfire grows
Monday 26 JulyYET more countryside quangos are being added to the bonfire promised by the Coalition government as the new Defra Secretary Caroline Spelman takes their duties back into the heart of her department.