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Hidden report reveals Wenny Meadow is home to rare 'false scorpions'

False Scorpion

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According to an invertebrate survey obtained via a Freedom of Information Request, Wenny Meadow in Chatteris is home to a “substantial and healthy population” of rare pseudoscorpions. Otherwise known as “false scorpions”, these invertebrates are like scorpions…


Ouse Washes: Middle Level Barrier Bank raising works

Ouse Washes

- The Ouse Washes near Welney" by Richard Humphrey

The Middle Level Barrier Bank is the bank of the Ouse Washes reservoir extending from Earith to Welmore Lake Sluice. The Environment Agency are carrying out work to comply with recommendations made by the reservoir Inspecting…


Oxford Cambridge Arc: Creating a Vision - CPRE Response

 Arc Area

Our response has been prepared through collaboration between our national charity and the five local CPRE groups within the Arc area: Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

This response document is in three parts:

  • CPRE’s overall critique of the Oxford-Cambridge…


More than 90% of survey respondents reject Ox-Cam Arc

Vote No

More than 90% of survey respondents across five counties of the ‘Ox-Cam Arc’ (Beds, Bucks, Cambs & Peterborough, Northants and Oxon) have told campaigners they reject government plans for the region.