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BBC News By James McCarthy & Rachel Flint BBC News image captionWith holidaymakers facing difficulties booking traditional campsites, some are looking elsewhere Huge tracts of land should be opened up for people to camp on in Wales, campaigners have said. Organisations like the National Trust, Natural Resources Wales and the Crown Estate own or manage hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Wales. Wild camping is banned in Wales and England, except on parts of Dartmoor. It is legal in Scotland. Carl Collins, co-founder of website Tentlife, said allowing wild camping in Wales was "a very vi...

Sat 17 Jul 2021 02.00 EDT Retailers are running out of camping equipment and family tents as the Covid-19 pandemic puts a dampener on foreign trips and Britons search for affordable holiday alternatives. Sports retailer Decathlon said it had already sold out of all its own-brand camping chairs and expected to run out of its top-of-the-range family tents within the next few weeks. “We have been surprised how strong performance has been,” said Chris Allen, Decathlon’s head of camping, referring to several weeks of very rainy weather across the UK. “This year has been really strong, we t...

Many Brits have a camping trip planned this summer, here's your must-knows.

Regulations should be relaxed to allow more temporary campsites this summer, say campaigners.

Rural businesses and landowners want restrictions to be relaxed so more campsites can be opened this summer.