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Government 'failing to protect' forests
AN PANEL set up to assess the future of England’s woodlands has criticised the government’s failure to protect public forest.
The Independent Panel on Forestry, comprising industry and countryside groups, was established following national outcry over the coalition’s plot to dispose of publicly owned woodlands to businesses, communities and charities.
Con-Dem ministers were forced into an embarrassing U-turn by the furore.
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