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Last Updated:
Tuesday, 15 January 2008, 12:01 GMT
'Costs double' for roaming scheme
The cost of opening up the countryside to ramblers is criticised by a Parliamentary watchdog.
ICON pope voxes
KEY STORIES
Farmers speak out at Royal Show
Farm subsidies system criticised
Badger culls among anti-TB plans
Historic new rights for walkers
Farming incomes see further drop
Foot-and-mouth 'human tragedy'
Farmers embark on prices strike
Eagles 'used to beat hunting ban'
Cost 'key to rural homes crisis'
Rural realities
A fascinating snapshot of country living in the 21st century
Sounding off
What's the biggest noise pollutant in the UK? It's not traffic...
Rural homes crisis
Locals 'priced out' of the countryside
TOURISM AND JOBS
Why rural tourism is no picnic
Farm tourism is booming, and policy makers hope it could revive the counryside - but not everyone is convinced.
Foreign corner of an English field
High hopes for 'Eden of North'
Countryside gunning for change
Sink or swim for rural businesses
FARMING
Who needs farmers anyway?
Should we import our food and leave the countryside to tourists, asks Farming Today's Miriam O'Reilly.
Fighting supermarket dominance
Locals-only rule stalls home sale
Why sheep are bouncing back
Climate of change troubles farms
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Soil Association
Sustain
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Countryslide?
What does the future hold for rural Britain? Join in the debate
In pictures
Life in the village where everybody knows your name
Country life
Urban myths - and rural reality
COUNTRY LIFE
Rural transport: stuck in a jam
Poor public transport is leaving some people in the countryside stranded. Tom Symonds investigates.
The countryside's uncertain future
The return of the countryside
Rural healthcare need 'neglected'
Black projects in green pastures
Boom squeezes out Welsh
ANALYSIS AND FEATURES
Badly served: the isolation of country life
It looks lovely from the outside, but it's not always easy to find the services you need in rural areas.
In the country without a car
An elegy for the UK countryside
Rapid change in rural Britain
Politics and the countryside
Right to roam: right or wrong?
Countryfile
Rural news from John Craven and BBC One's Countryfile team
Country roads
Find how how to protect or change public footpaths
In Depth
Full details of the growing debate over the future of hunting
Talking Pictures
See and hear the daily struggles of a Cumbrian farmer
Past imperfect
How foot-and-mouth disease gripped the UK countryside
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