RIGHT TO ROAM
September 1st, 2002
BY MARK ROWEWITH the Government's right-to-roam soon allowing citizens to wander pretty much at will over the moors and hills, an ironic footnote is being added to the issue of greater access. The Open Spaces Society, Britain's oldest public access group, has been working with young offenders to clean up and fix broken and overgrown paths neglected by erring landowners and local councils.The project, around the town of Kington in Herefordshire, involves the OSS using the unspent energy of young offenders on probation to improve access to some of the county's ...
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