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‘It will bring in too many tourists’: Why some Scots don’t want a new national park

More than a few champagne corks popped in Scotland’s most southerly region of Dumfries and Galloway on July 22 when it fought off stiff competition bidding to be the site of Scotland’s newest national ...
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Consultation on scrapped national park cost £160,000

A government body spent more than £160,000 on a consultation process which ultimately ended in plans for a new national park in Galloway being scrapped. The sum spent by NatureScot was revealed ...