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Upland keeper

We have now had, of all things, a debate on the burning of heather in Parliament. Quite what will come of that remains to be seen, but what really annoys me — and that is putting it mildly, by the way — is that an awful lot of people with degrees are ignoring the science because they don’t like what it is telling them. I should add to that they also have an alternative agenda, and it does not include fieldsports.

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