Estate up for sale after 700 years in same family A prime Northumberland estate has come on the market. Shooting Times readers will be interested in the grouse shooting, the pheasants and salmon on the Coquet. However, it is also being advertised as the “single largest ring-fenced carbon offsetting opportunity to come to the market”. Carbon offsetting gives businesses the opportunity to buy carbon credits generated by projects that are cleaning up our atmosphere, to compensate for their own emissions. The 9,500-acre Rothbury Estate, which is on the market for £35m, has been owned by the Percy family since the 1330s, and the sale is proving controversial. Northumberland county councillor Steven Bridgett said: “Just what we need. More land being flogged off to corporations, so they can offset their carbon no opportunity for the next generation to work the land.” Northumberland-based gamekeeper Lindsay Waddell remarked: “The worry for those employed and who live locally is that
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