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Licence fate

Tim Bonner, chief executive of the Countryside Alliance, has described the unholy and ongoing row over general licences as a “cock up” by Natural England. If you don’t mind me saying, Tim, that’s putting it politely. I can think of a far better four-lettered Anglo-Saxon word to sum up the situation.

However you want to look at it, this fiasco was — and still is — a complete and utter you-know-what. The way Natural England — and Wild Justice, for that matter — dropped red-listed

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