Right to roam campaigners have staged a mass trespass near the England-Scotland border calling for the Westminster Government to adopt the same land…
Scottish residents can legally wander over almost all land and inland waters provided they follow certain basic rules such as removing all their belongings – a practice known as leave no trace.
North of Carlisle along a historic stretch of the Border called the Debatable Lands, campaigners from the Right to Roam group trespassed through boggy woodland to meet their Scottish counterparts coming legally from the other side. He said: “I think that’d be really brilliant for public health in terms of physical and mental health.
Nadia Shaikh, representing the English side, and Adhamh O Broin, representing the Scottish, waded into the water and exchanged a slug of beer andHarry Jenkins, who has been with the group since its inception, said: “We’re not doing this as protests, they are celebrations of the land. It’s a coming together of people with respect for the rights of the countryside.
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