Today's Fresh Blogs...

• National Trust puts 3.5m members in front line against climate change

  Published: July 25, 2007, 5:59 am

  Tags: Environment, Rural Affairs, Voluntary Sector, Society, Climate Change, Travel, Travel News, Heritage, Uk News

  It controls 900-square miles of land and 710 miles of coastline and has far moremembers than the armed services, the teaching profession, the prison population, environmental groups and political parties combined.

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• The Cornish giant

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:31 am

  Tags: Food Drink, Life Style, Rural Affairs, Uk News, Travel, Cornwall

  He built a mini-empire of restaurants and shops in Padstow but then fell foul of some of the locals. Rick Stein tells Martin Skegg why he makes no apologies for his Cornish endeavours, and talks about his new passion - Mediterranean food.

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• Get tough on second home owners, rural adviser tells Brown

  Published: November 17, 2007, 7:16 pm

  Tags: Travel, Uk News, The Observer, Rural Affairs, Politics, Home Affairs

  The government is being urged to put controls on incomers so the Cornish can escape from 'squalor' into affordable housing, reports Jasper Gerard

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• The battle for Deadman's Hill

  Published: March 5, 2008, 7:09 pm

  Tags: Rural Affairs, Transport, Transport Policy, Green Politics, Ethical Living, Pollution, Carbon Emissions, Travel And Transport, Conservation, Environment, Yorkshire, Travel, Green Travel

  The Yorkshire Dales are in the front line in an increasingly bitter war between off-roaders who drive along its green lanes and environmentalists who want them banned. Hugh Wilson reports

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