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East Lothian Courier Peeps into the Past: What was making the news 25, 50 and 100 years ago?
Peeps into the past
Sayings and doings of 25 years ago.
A CAMPAIGN to save a local woodland was on the front page of the East Lothian Courier on April 12, 1996. Friends of the Earth joined about 60 local people at a public meeting in Stenton Village Hall to discuss tactics to save up to 550 ancient sessile oak trees in Pressmennan Wood from being felled to make fence posts in Germany. The campaigners, who enlisted the sympathy of TV naturalist David Bellamy, feel let down by the authorities they thought existed to protect their woodlands and the legal processes which allow such felling to take place.