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Locals know how best to run national parks
The church of St Michael de Rupe at Brentor in Dartmoor National Park, Devon
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SIR – Seventy years ago, the first English national parks were set up. The Government recently said that they represented one of the most outstanding environmental achievements of the past 100 years.
Since 1995, the national park authorities have been independent statutory bodies, with a majority of local councillors on their boards. However, according to documents leaked to the BBC’s
Countryfile programme (shown March 28), the Government now plans to bring all the functions and responsibilities of the protected landscapes into a single organisational structure, effectively a new national quango.
Britain s most unfashionable (but beautiful) holiday options, according to the data
We turned to Google Trends to find out which of Britain s counties, national parks and AONBs are the least trendy
This is England s least searched-for national park
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It seems like every man and his dog is planning to celebrate the end of our nationwide incarceration with an old fashioned UK holiday, and for the honeypots like Cornwall and the Cotswolds, the accommodation cupboard for the peak season is almost bare. Expect crowds on the beaches of the South West this summer, and queues of walkers in our most popular national parks.
The tier 3 borders you shouldn t cross from Bath and North East Somerset from Boxing Day
Some communities will be sliced in half
A map of Bath and North East Somerset and stock photo of police officers (Image: Bath Live)
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