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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Severin Carrell

Ramblers unite at Scots Dyke to protest against England’s draconian right to roam laws

Walkers Nadia Shaikh, Shafag Elnour and Andy Wightman protest against England’s right to roam laws.
Walkers Nadia Shaikh, Shafag Elnour and Andy Wightman protest against England’s right to roam laws. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Observer

Flag-waving activists for land reform have expressed their demands for greater freedom to roam in England and Wales by staging a symbolic trespass through farmland on the Scottish border.

In a bid to highlight Scotland’s far more generous rights of access to the countryside, around 40 campaigners tramped through boggy, dense woodland to arrive at an earth dyke north of Carlisle which once marked the medieval border.

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