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The Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature.

Between 24 September and 2 October this year, Great Big Green Week will unleash a wave of support for action to protect the planet. Tens of thousands of people in every corner of the country will celebrate the heartfelt, brave, everyday actions being taken to stand…

We have received an update regarding the Welney Barrier and road closure:  This year's work is currently going well, and the works required to be carried out under the road closure at Welney are nearly complete. The road is due to open, as programmed, on Thursday 25 August at 5.30pm.  The road will open with two way traffic lights from 25/08/2022 to 16/09/2022. 

The barrier work is programmed…

The Environment Agency (EA) has shared a Briefing Note regarding the Drought in East Anglia declared on 12^th August – see the EA press release here (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/environment-agency-chairs-national-drought-group-as-parts-of-country-move-into-drought).…

The government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed a number of cases of avian influenza (bird flu) in the wild bird population of Huntingdonshire, centred on the River Great Ouse.  Although there is a very low risk to public health it is vital that people do not touch sick live birds or bird carcasses.  Anyone who has been in direct touching…

New CPRE research has found that there has been a hundred-fold increase in our best farmland lost to development in little more than a decade, and 60% of our finest agricultural land is at risk of flooding.

To read more, go to https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/we-call-for-land-strategy-and-new-planning-rules-to-guard-food-security/

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