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  • Mar 31, 2011
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March 31st, 2011
Some UK Public Forests Will Still Be Sold Off, minister admits

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A chunk of England’s publicly owned forest will still be sold off, Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary has admitted, despite the public outcry over plans to privatise woodland. In an embarrassing admission earlier this year, the minister was forced to back down from plans to change the law so the government could sell all the 258,000 hectares of woodland owned by the taxpayer. Read More