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Campaigners win court appeal that banned right to camp in English National Park

A bitter dispute between a millionaire hedge fund manager and campers he tried to ban from pitching up on his land may have come to an end, Matt Mathers reports

A judge previously ruled that people do not have the right to camp overnight on Dartmoor Commons with landowners’ permission.

Duchy hopes to at least double size of Wistman’s Wood, a 3 hectare fragment of ancient woodland, by 2040

More than £13m of subsidies mainly paid to tenants of Duchy of Cornwall have done little to restore nature in national park

Originally opened in 1930 by Great Western Railways as a hotel and golf resort, Bovey Castle – or Bovey Castle Hotel and Spa to give its full name – is a genuinely impressive site. Those railway people knew what they were doing frankly as, it must be said, do current…

Tory MPs call for ministers, not watchdog, to make decisions on sites of special scientific interest

The former Brecon Beacons has acknowledged it is facing an onslaught of environmental threats – with the UK’s national parks from Dartmoor to the Cairngorms facing similar pressures

Farmers Alexander and Diana Darwall brought the successful legal challenge against the DNPA, claiming some campers cause problems to livestock.