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The rape and pillage of our green and pleasant land
As part of the Morning Star's campaign to save our rivers an indignant PETER FROST reports from a river bank in Herefordshire designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation
The Lugg river, Lugg Flats, Hereford
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WITHIN days of the Tory government’s announcement that it will replace the set-aside huge payment to already rich farmers and landowners with even more money, supposedly to re-wild our countryside, at least one landowner has shown his total contempt for any kind of wildlife and landscape protection.
A huge section, well over a mile, of the beautiful Herefordshire River Lugg has been bulldozed. In a matter of hours this act of extreme and criminal vandalism has changed the Lugg from a beautiful river meandering through flowery water meadows into a straightened and re-profiled hard-edged sterile canal.
Ancient bank side trees have been grubbed out and burnt. Many riverside habitats completely obliterated. In just a few hours the bulldozer swept away part of a mature landscape that had taken many centuries to develop.
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