public footpaths

Twenty-two people in the UK were killed by cows in a 4-year period from 2019 to 2023. A quarter of these were walkers crossing fields on public footpaths. Is it time to address this hazard with simple legislation?

The Ramblers Association has launched a campaign to reclaim some of Britain’s lost footpaths before legislation comes into effect that turns them permanently into private land. The campaign was accompanied by the launch of a clever app which I had some fun with last weekend.

While sitting in my tent the other morning deciding which Scottish mountain to tackle that day, I came across a couple of passages in Cameron McNeish’s book The Munros which struck me as out of place. “It’s interesting that the

As a digital communications professional who has worked in central government for much of the last three years, I’ve managed to remain deliciously apathetic to the world of politics. This may seem strange, for you would think a person whose

As a keen walker who spends many weekends walking and enjoying the UK’s network of public footpaths, many of which pass through woodland, I’ve been following with interest discussion of the Coalition government’s proposals to sell off 150,000 hectares of

Crazy cows on public footpaths: is it time to change the law?

How the Duke of Cornwall stole a footpath and I rediscovered it

The joys and perils of off-piste walking

How the sale of England’s forests drove me back into politics

Will the Coalition government protect the UK’s forests?