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FIRE services are still battling a large heath fire at Ash Ranges this afternoon.

Surrey Fire and Rescue Service is in attendance

But for half a century Johnson, like many residents of Ash Vale, has been able to walk the ranges when the red flags are down, showing the soldiers are elsewhere. That changed last year when the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Infrastructure Organisation decided to permanently close the ranges to the public for the first time since the commons were granted to the armed forces in 1876, on the proviso that they remained open to the public when not in military use. Now Johnson and other campaigners say the MoD has become increasingly heavy-handed in enforcing what they call an illegal closure...

MBR 0shares Mountain bikers could still be given their marching orders from swathes of prime singletrack in Hampshire, following a MOD by-laws review Riders on MOD land look likely to remain barred from singletrack Mountain bikers probably won’t get the permitted access to singletrack they were hoping for on military land around Aldershot, Hampshire, following a review into access. Thousands of riders use the heath and forest land around Aldershot and its network of trails every week, but riding singletrack has technically been prohibited under existing rules. N...