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We were younger then,” says Jennie Marles, turning the pages of a photo album, revealing grainy shots of a complex of semi-industrial buildings – vast, asbestos-roofed sheds housing thousands of inten

Up through the dappled oak grove, across a tinkling stream and out into open fields. It’s a lunchtime walk I do a lot, living here in West Yorkshire’s lush Upper Calder Valley. Recently, I’d been skir

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM THE WORLD OF FISHING

When the new year is welcomed in, we hope for good fortune in the months that lie ahead. But 25 years ago, right across the British countryside, good fortune was nowhere to be seen. Instead, 2001 was

THE now infamous mountain of illegally dumped waste ...

The Solway Firth is a huge inlet on the west coast of Britain between Cumbria and Scotland, more specifically the area of Dumfries and Galloway. The firth has vast areas of saltmarsh and intertidal mu