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Farming matters: John Thorley - "National Parks bring no benefits"

News reported in Farmers Guardian highlighting NFU Scotland’s challenge over National Parks struck a chord, one which I hope will go on reverberating until the entire edifice of National Parks is challenged

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Farming matters: John Thorley - "National Parks bring no benefits"

It is an entity which is expensive, has no real beneficial purpose in these days of tight money supply and has been imposed on farming and rural communities, which have allowed them to happen without understanding...

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