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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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It is with great sadness that we announce that former Chairman of CPRE Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, Mike Bratby, has died at the age of 77. Mike chaired CPRE Cambridgeshire and Peterborough until 2010.

We welcomed the visit of Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb to a tour organised by Friends of the Cam to explore the damage being done to the River Cam. A number of issues were raised, and a member of our committee was able to attend to represent the views of CPRE Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, in particular our concerns at the scale of development proposed in Waterbeach.

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