Archive for June 2025
Path fighters reopen way to hills
We are celebrating the newly-reopened path which leads from Cwmparc, Treorchy, in Rhondda Cynon Taf to the hills above. The popular public highway was illegally obstructed by locked gates, two metres high, in February. The community, with the society’s support, has campaigned vigorously ever since, naming their crusade ‘Gate-gate’. On Friday 13 June, the landowners…
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Our general secretary, Kate Ashbrook, urges the government to act for access. Every Labour government since the second-world war has taken major steps, with landmark legislation, to improve public access to the countryside. Nearly a year since its election, what will this government do? Environment ministers seem genuinely sympathetic. There is talk of a green…
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