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Your roundup: Countryside Alliance in the press

Representatives from the Countryside Alliance regularly feature in both print and broadcast media. It's been another bumper few weeks of coverage.

As well as national coverage, the Alliance work hard to ensure representation is fair and balanced in local news too.

Please note that not all coverage is available online. There are many articles which are in print only (this is usually the case with industry press), as well as radio and TV appearances which cannot be retrieved.

Be sure not to miss the coverage below. Please click the name of the news outlet to read the story.

Countryside Alliance warns lockdown walkers not to damage fields - Bishop's Stortford Independent

Fly-tipper caught red-handed and forced to put rubbish back in van - Daily Telegraph

Hunt Ban stalls after council learn they have no land used by hunts - Derbyshire Live

Britain's glorious traditional country pubs set to shut in droves as six in 10 on brink - Sunday Express

Rise in rural incidents in lockdown worries Sussex farmers - The Argus

How buying venison can avert Covid catastrophe by Sam Carlisle - Yorkshire Post

Call for rural crime task force for Wales after livestock attack - In your area

Do you care about our trees? Then eat more VENISON! - Daily Mail

Essex pub owner calls for Government Covid support - Epping Forest Guardian

Walkers urged not to feed horses or livestock in Dorset fields - Dorset Echo

Walkers warned not to feed animals on lockdown walks - Somerset County Gazette

Newcastle Uni praised for move to source from local farmers - Farming UK

Public urged not to feed farm animals after death of pony - Farming UK

Why you should keep buying local during lockdown - Cornwall Live

Using vacant pubs for vaccination centres gets the support of brewery boss - Westmorland Gazette

Rural fly-tipping issue raised amid UK's new lockdown - Farming UK

Rural communities 'under siege' by criminal hare-coursing gangs - Daily Telegraph

National Rural Crime Taskforce for Wales calls following appalling livestock attack - Brecon and Radnor Express

Bolsover councillor accused of 'class war rage' for trying to ban trail hunting - Derbyshire Live

Public told to stick to farm footpaths amid damaged fields - Farming UK

Local fishing allowed under lockdown rules - Cumberland and Westmorland Gazette

The RSPCA is set to abandon bringing private prosecutions for animal abuse - Daily Telegraph

Heather burning on peat bogs to be banned in blow for moorland landowners - Daily Mail

Shooting and fishing permitted during lockdown as they count as 'exercise' - Daily Telegraph

COVID crisis: Boris unveils lockdown exit plan as vaccine drive ramped up - Sunday Express

Hunt supporters warned about coordinated data breaches - Daily Telegraph

Cornwall pub landlord Will McClelland, Kings Arms on lockdown pressure - Falmouth Packet

Councils raked in £7.3m from rubbish-tip 'tax' last year amid fly-tipping fears - Daily Telegraph

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