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Christmas card recycling scheme to help UK tree planting

 

 

A Christmas card recycling scheme to help fund tree planting around the UK has been launched by the Woodland Trust and national campaign Recycle Now.

It hopes to gain a nature conservation boost from helping to tackle the mountain of extra waste created over the festive period. This includes an estimated extra three quarters of a million tonnes including over one billion Christmas cards generated by households in England alone.

The 2008 Surrey Horse Pasture Management Calendar.

 

 

Are you entitled to receive a free copy of the 2008 Surrey Horse Pasture Management Calendar?
The advisory calendar is A3 size (A4 size when closed) with high quality and colourful illustrative equine photographs and monthly land management advice accompanying the date boxes. Advice contains information specific to Surrey's Landscape Character Areas and also more generic points (e.g. how to go about applying fertiliser, when and why practices such as harrowing and rolling should be carried out etc.) The Calendar will help horse-keepers to keep pasture in good condition whilst also assisting wildlife, the landscape and the environment.

ENJOY THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PAST

 

 

Crackling log fires, carols, hot chestnuts, warming drinks and tasty Christmas fare – just some of the treats in store for visitors to the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum this festive season. The Museum’s ‘Sussex Christmas’ event runs from 26 December to 1 January 2008, recreating many evocative aspects of traditional Christmas celebrations. The Museum’s downland site with its wide open spaces, woodland walks and picturesque lake provides an ideal setting for stretching the legs and enjoying the warmth and atmosphere of the historic houses, many decorated for Christmas in the style of the period when they were originally built

Make a date with kent this Christmas

 

 

As Christmas approaches, Kent County Council is offering a gift idea that will give benefits long after the festive period has passed.

£50m lottery grant goes to new Sustrans network

The Sustrans Connect2 project yesterday scooped the £50m People's Lottery prize, the largest award ever decided by public vote. It means the national network will expand even further, to take in a derelict rail tunnel near Bath and a neglected ferry in Northumberland.