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Local news 2007

Fencing plan for Rishworth Moor - 20 December 2007
Unlawful fencing on Carmarthenshire common - 20 December 2007
Campaign to save Waterfoot's green lung - 20 December 2007
Forestry Commission agrees to dedicate public path  - 14 December 2007
South Hams green lanes threatened by motorbike abuse - 7 December 2007
Morton open space saved from development - 7 December 2007
Land in Haverfordwest saved from development - 4 December 2007
Wokingham to seek solution to Henley Festival path-closure - 4 December 2007
Solution to save threatened space at Widmer Farm - 30 November 2007
Donation to help Warneford Meadows - 30 November 2007
Fight for Epworth footpath - 27 November 2007
We back bid to save Osbaldwick Meadows - 27 November 2007
Pitshill path saved - 26 November 2007
Bedfordshire County Council does its stuff - 26 November 2007
Closure of Hayes footpath - 9 November 2007
Suburban chalet-park rejected - 9 November 2007
Gates across ancient Somerset droveway must go - 18 October 2007
Path closure puts Woodley people at risk - 17 October 2007
Land in Croxley Green saved from development - 17 October 2007
Wind-turbine menace on Lancashire common - 17 October 2007
South Pennines Partnership's chance to promote public enjoyment - 12 October 2007
Betws Mountain battle enters new phase - 12 October 2007
Unlawful fencing on Monmouthshire common must go - 28 September 2007
Safe route to school - 28 September 2007
The fight for Yeovil rec - 28 September 2007
Chalet blot in beauty spot - 12 September 2007
Access-way on Surrey Common refused - 12 September 2007
Locked gates on Westwood Common - 12 September 2007
Deplorable enclosure of common land - 30 August 2007
Important site in Petersfield saved - 29 August 2007
Path won after 20-year struggle - 15 August 2007
Plympton school path saved - 15 August 2007
Rutland must abandon path priority-system - 15 August 2007
Fighting an eyesore in Chiltern wood - 14 August 2007
Joint action saves bridleway at Llanbadarn Fyndd in Powys - 14 August 2007
Path claimed round Bowmoor Lake - 14 August 2007
We slate Cornwall's path hierarchy - 10 August 2007
Important Devon footpath reopened - 2 August 2007
Henley Festival’s ‘self-inflicted slur’ - 11 July 2007
We win best answer for Holt Heath Common - 10 July 2007
Reopen blocked footpath, Brent - 6 July 2007
We bust attempted secrecy in Whitehaven Bill - 6 July 2007
Betws Mountain wind turbines: the battle’s not over - 6 July 2007
We fight new military hut at Baggator - 29 June 2007
First round for Jolly Sailor paths won - 29 June 2007
We win battle of Bullfinch Lane - 19 June 2007
Garway Common saved from degradation - 19 June 2007
Campaigners save valued footpath in Westbourne - 15 June 2007
Tele-mast eyesore at Parliament Piece - 23 May 2007
Bulldozed track on Torfaen Common - 23 May 2007
Council retreats from cycle-track plan - 11 May 2007
Widmer Farm—second chance - 25 April 2007
We back Warneford Meadow rescue plan - 18 April 2007
Wind turbine threat to South Pennine summit - 12 April 2007
Mablethorpe footpath threatened again - 11 April 2007
Safe walking-route spurned - 29 March 2007
We fight blot on Garway Common - 29 March 2007
Cross Moor wind-turbines 'add insult to injury' - 20 March 2007
Settlement secured for Bournemouth's paths and spaces - 20 March 2007
Poor’s Acre—victim of funding cuts - 5 March 2007
Council rules that Yeadon Banks stay green - 5 March 2007
Victory for Telscombe Tye Common - 2 March 2007
Destructive road-scheme- 20 February 2007
Glyndebourne to face the music - 20 February 2007
Longridge Wood campaign takes big step forward - 20 February 2007
Brooklands Passage saved - 20 February 2007
Hebden Bridge first ‘walkers are welcome’ town - 20 February 2007
We fight cycle track on Lincoln common - 2 February 2007
Bradfield Parish Council saves green - 29 January 2007
Ancient Stockport path saved from closure - 17 January 2007
Blocked path across golf course to be reopened - 17 January 2007
Ewyas Harold Common saved from eyesore - 17 January 2007
Path closure at Plympton School - 17 January 2007
Open space saved on Saxon Shore Way - 17 January 2007
We fight plan to close Lambeth footpath - 3 January 2007
Somerset’s path hierarchy deplored - 2 January 2007

 

Local news 2006

We help to save inskip footpath - 20 December 2006
We join fight against blight on Devon landscape - 18 December 2006
Playgolf's plan thwarted to move blocked public path - 18 December 2006
Fencing rejected on North Wales common - 5 December 2006
Waste dump on East Sussex common - 5 December 2006
Reopen blocked footpath - 8 November 2006
Fight for community's wood - 25 October 2006
Disappointing decision to fence Barlaston Common -17 October 2006
Church Langley path-change - 9 October 2006
Herefordshire common saved from urbanisation - 13 September 2006
Fight to save Harden Moor - 12 September 2006
We fight Pitshill path changes - 12 September 2006
Fencing rejected on Swansea common - 1 September 2006
Odell bridleway no threat to security - 17 August 2006
Somerset slated for landowner bias - 26 July 2006
We oppose development on Kent cliff - 26 July 2006
Outrage at hilltop mast - 21 July 2006
Henley Festival blocks Thames towpath - 11 July 2006
Call for Wetley Moor action plan - 28 June 2006
Victory at Haytor, Dartmoor - 28 June 2006
Castle Cove Path, Dartmouth - 28 June 2006
Mablethorpe footpath rescue - 28 June 2006
Herefordshire common to be fenced - 28 June 2006
Cambrian catastrophe - 12 June 2006
Fencing cannot stop public recreation - 12 June 2006
Unauthorised fencing of common land - 9 June 2006
Deplorable fencing of Norfolk Common - 9 June 2006
Beckley path saved - 9 June 2006
We deplore decision to fence Wolvercote Green - 9 June 2006
Dismay at land swap for wind turbines - 31 May 2006
We fight land swap on West Sussex common - 10 May 2006
Victory on Dorset common - 8 May 2006
We deplore development on Dartmoor common - 8 May 2006
London's special square saved from abuse - 13 April 2006
We fight fencing plan on East Sussex common - 12 April 2006
Public paths could become private preserves - 5 April 2006
We scupper Salford's path-closure plans - 5 April 2006
We fight mast on hilltop common - 31 March 2006
Kent school-path closure pursued - 31 March 2006
We help save St Mary Bourne footpath - 31 March 2006
Henley Festival backs down from Thames path closure - 31 March 2006
Festival to close Thames path - 30 March 2006
Remedy for inner London's lost ways - 30 March 2006
Coombe Down, Dartmoor opening soon - 30 March 2006
We call on Kent to reject school-path closure - 15 February 2006
Public to be banned from beauty spot? - 14 February 2006
Fencing plan rejected on Allendale Common - 7 February 2006
Nina Smith - 31 January 2006
School path saved at Hoar Cross - 31 January 2006
We scupper city’s crime-path closure - 26 January 2006
Victory against opencast-mine - 19 January 2006

 

Local news 2005

We protest at alleygating in Doncaster - 28 December 2005
We fight downland destruction - 14 December 2005
Unlawful fencing on Netmead Common - 14 December 2005
We join battle against Den Brook turbines - 2 December 2005
Fight for Monmouth's special tree - 29 November 2005
Racecourse extension on common - 28 November 2005
Secretary of State rejects development on Suffolk common - 9 November 2005
Bridport path saved - 8 November 2005
The fight against wind turbines on Pool Hill, Kirklees - 8 November 2005
West Sussex path won - 8 November 2005
We back parish council to save village green - 26 October 2005
We object to controversial Weymouth Relief Road scheme - 26 October 2005
Private housing for historic Crystal Palace Park - 26 October 2005
Cliff-top beauty spot saved - 11 October 2005
Dismay at land swap for new county hall - 11 October 2005
Plymouth City Council forced to open blocked path in court case - 11 October 2005
We help save Borstal village recreation fields - 7 October 2005
We back Bridport path-change opponents - 7 October 2005
Halton Borough Council writes the longest paragraph - 20 September 2005
OSS rejoices at 'No' to wind turbines - 8 September 2005
Don't develop The Den - 8 September 2005
Historic Cotswold path saved - 25 August 2005
We deplore Dorset's failure to act - 25 August 2005
Fencing plan rejected on Hertfordshire common - 25 August 2005
We deplore dog ban in West Dart valley - 29 July 2005
Last plea to Dorset County Councillors - 18 July 2005
Fairwood Common to be 'suburbanised' - 18 July 2005
We save Exmoor footpath - 14 July 2005
Blot on Sussex beauty-spot path - 14 July 2005
Path changes on charity land - 22 June 2005
We fight development on Suffolk common - 8 June 2005
Fencing plan rejected on Painswick Hill Common - 2 June 2005
We fight Lambeth path closure - 2 June 2005
Pay-to-walk company fights right to roam - 2 June 2005
Fight to save paths from 'petulant' Pearson - 29 April 2005
We slate plan to desecrate Merthyr Common - 27 April 2005
Five blocked paths reopened - 27 April 2005
Regeneration scheme threatens common - 27 April 2005
Bedfordshire paths are 'Cinderellas of the highway network' - 12 April 2005
Dorset County Council should remove unlawful fences - 12 April 2005
Regrettable decision to fence West Sussex common - 5 April 2005
Caldecotte lakeside saved as open space - 5 April 2005
Norfolk County Council fails to defend footpath-  31 March 2005
Kids' kick-about on Wotter Common - 31 March 2005
Wind turbines - 90 feet higher than Nelson's Column - 31 March 2005
Rescue plan for Dartmouth path - 30 March 2005
'Unorthodox' council - 3 March 2005
Corporate grab of public square - 17 February 2005
'Scandalous' motorbike plans in beauty-spot - 17 February 2005
We slate Devon's path plan - 10 February 2005
Dismay at Quantock-fencing decision - 2 February 2005
Friends of Burleigh Green ask for your support - 27 January 2005
Victory on Pembrokeshire Common - 17 January 2005
We save Southwark short-cut  - 13 January 2005
 

Local news 2004

Our Wiltshire activist rescues path - 21 December 2004
Our chairman wins new access-land in south - 13 December 2004
We slate new wind-turbine plans - 30 November 2004
We rescue historic Northamptonshire footpath - 23 November 2004
'Pre-empt the developers!' - 5 October 2004
Society saves vital path for Reading's residents - 9 September 2004
We give Henley Festival the rocket - 14 July 2004
We back new campaign for Petersham Meadows - 14 July 2004
Ugborough footpaths won back - 14 July 2004
We call for task force to save beauty-spot path - 14 July 2004
Lazy Lincolnshire - 14 July 2004
Wiltshire footpaths reinstated through crops - 14 July 2004
We fight for Marsh Lane Footbridge in Leyton - 5 July 2004
Wetley Moor common saved from fencing blight - 6 May 2004
Eype Down Common to stay free - 6 May 2004
Weaverham's vital greenspace saved - 6 May 2004
Beating the bounds on Spring Common, Huntingdon - 26 April 2004
We fight wind turbines on common land - 26 April 2004
Calling all path-users in Torbay - 7 April 2004
Vital path in Norfolk saved - 31 March 2004
Fighting for ancient Ketton way - 16 March 2004
Plymouth's path-failures - 25 February 2004
Grendon footpath to remain - 25 February 2004
Two paths saved at Dowlish Wake - 25 February 2004
Land at Little Sugden stays on the access map - 25 February 2004
We slate Wiltshire's hierarchy plan - 26 January 2004
 

Local news 2003

Kilmington path saved - 23 December 2003
Beds decides to reopen blocked footpath - 8 December 2003
Commons to stay free - 3 December 2003
Exmouth victory - 28 November 2003
View of Colmworth Church - 28 November 2003
Vital Gillingham alleyway saved - 25 November 2003
Ferndown green - 3 November 2003
Pop star abandons path-change plan - 8 Oct 2003
We condemn Blackburn Council for poor state of paths - 6 October 2003
The future of Crownhill Down - 21 Sept 2003
We fight for Durham's ancient common -  25 July 2003
Our win against fencing of Odiham Common - 8 July 2003
Isle of Wight path saved from closure - 25 June 2003
Access battle at Vixen Tor - June 2003
Cliff-top road closed - June 2003
Kensworth Circular - June 2003
We call on council to reopen blocked Maulden path - 13 May 2003
We fight Manchester's plans to close paths - 30 April 2003
Sutton Common fence deplored - 30 April 2003
Bradford's steps to close paths slated - 16 April 2003
Victory against development of national-park common - 15 April 2003
Lake District fencing plan rejected - 15 April 2003
The fight to save Crownhill Down - 25 February 2003
We rescue Wyboston path - 27 January 2003
Kinsbourne Green saved from commercial development - 27 January 2003
Victory against fencing on Llynclys Common - 21 January 2003
Path vandalised by County Council - 20 January 2003
Pressure groups protest at Lake District fencing plans - January 2003
New ten-year military land grab succeeds - story update January 2003
 

Local news 2002

OSS fights pop star's path change - 3 December 2002
Path-switch sweetener offered - 12 November 2002
Stratford path restored - 9 October 2002
Hertfordshire common threatened - 26 September 2002
We condemn new military plans for Dartmoor - 20 September 2002
Bedfordshire bridleway saved - 2 September 2002
We slate Wiltshire's plans to neglect public paths - 21 August 2002
We help to save rectory path - 15 August 2002
Alderminster path rescued - 5 August 2002
Society's campaigner saves Leamington footpath - 5 July 2002
Free Wetley Moor from unlawful fencing - 1 July 2002
Homebase sent packing - 21 June 2002
Newton's Way - 10 June 2002
We condemn Salford's alleygater policy - 10 June 2002
We celebrate victory at Widmer End Fields - 31 May 2002
We condemn Cefn Croes wind-turbine decision - 24 May 2002
Free the Highest Hill, campaigners tell prince - 23 May 2002
OSS fights new country house plans - 23 May 2002
We deplore fencing decision on wild Exmoor - 9 May 2002
Damaging planning application withdrawn in Guildford - 9 May 2002
We celebrate rescue of vital heathland at Fordham Heath near Colchester - 15 Apr 2002
OSS celebrates the freeing of entrance to Eel Brook Common - 3 April 2002
Fence refused on Rishworth Moor common - 20 March 2002
We save Barton path - 18 Mar 2002
Barley Hedges won’t be closed - 18 Mar 2002
Dyffryn Hall in Powys - 18 Mar 2002
Parkland path saved - 18 Mar 2002
National Trust slated for illegally blocked paths on Norfolk estate - 14 March 2002
Salford Council must prosecute builder over housing-estate bridleway  - 1 February 2002
OSS calls on the crown to remove unlawful fencing from PowysCommon - 29 January 2002