Country Diary

The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) is calling for the Government to set a target to increase English hedgerows by 40% by the year 2050. As well as environmental benefits, the CPRE claims 25,000 rural jobs would be created to plant and manage these new hedgerows and that, for every £1 of taxpayers’ money invested in hedges, £3.92 would be generated for the wider economy.

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