There was an interesting item published last week in the Daventry Express relating to a local Conservative Councillor called Tony Scott who has resigned from the Conservative party to show the Government the Council’s ‘complete disdain at its blind determination to blight our countryside with expensive and useless machines’. He has urged fellow councillors across […]
THE REMOTE HAMLET of Upton Cressett, near Bridgnorth in Shropshire, where I live, was snowed in over the weekend. On Saturday morning, which was bright, clear and very cold – but the winter air quite still – I went for a walk with my dog, tramping through the snowy old deserted medieval village that lies […]
I recently had the pleasure of attending a party thrown by the CPRE at the Philip Mould gallery in Mayfair to celebrate the English countryside. The CPRE – along with the Spear’s ‘Save Britain’s Historic Landscape’ campaign – have been in the very front trenches (along with the National Trust) of the national debate over […]