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The £2.4m of funding is from the Nature for Climate Fund to help meet tree planting targets.

Peter Haycraft, who migrated to the Virgin Islands as a young sailor and founded a small wholesale company that would become the territory’s largest supermarket chain, died in the early hours of Saturday. He was 88.

Chatsworth Park and Paine's Bridge - Credit: DPC Photography For mere mortals, it can be difficult to keep on top of our own gardens.   How often have we let the grass grow too long, failed to mend that face or let the flowers at the bottom of the garden wither away?  Now imagine being responsible for 105 acres of garden, sat within 2,000 acres of varied and demanding land so beautiful and diverse that it is visited by over 700,000 people a year, all travelling from far and wide to take in its beauty.  That’s the unenviable task that Chatsworth head gardener Steve Porter faces when h...

New £5 million project to save woodlands Natural England’s LIFE in the Ravines project is launched today with £5 million of funding. From: Image credit: National Trust The project will tackle ash dieback in the ravines The future of the beautiful ravine woodlands in the Peak District is looking brighter thanks to £5 million in funding. The LIFE in the Ravines partnership project, led by Natural England, will tackle the threat that ash dieback poses to the forested river valleys of the Peak District. The project has received £3.6m in funding from the EU LIFE programme, with...

WATERTOWN — A Public Hearing on a controversial application was closed by members of the Conservation Commission on Thursday, December 10, but the inclusion of a draft approval in the agenda packet, written by staff and without request by the members, helped convince commissioners to table the issue to the next meeting. The sole Public Hearing on the agenda was for an application by Erik Markiewicz, EPM Development LLC, to demolish a single-family home at 542 Davis St. and construct a new, three-family home. The application has been opposed by neighbors on Everitt Lane, whose prope...