Derbyshire Times news bulletin with editor Phil Bramley
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00:00Here's today's Derbyshire Times video bulletin.
00:03Campaigners are calling on the East Midlands Mayor to help them bring
00:06Derbyshire's buses back into public ownership. The coalition group Better Buses East Midlands
00:12will gather outside the Chesterfield office of the East Midlands Mayor, Clare Ward,
00:16at 11am on Saturday. The group, which is part of the wider East Midlands Combined Authority
00:22Coalition, claims that bus services across the East Midlands, including in Derbyshire,
00:27are in crisis. Lisa Hopkinson from Better Buses East Midlands said,
00:32Now, finally, we have the chance to turn this around.
00:35Mayors of combined authorities can take our buses back into public control,
00:40and the next few years are crucial. The government has committed to making
00:43re-regulation of buses easier for mayors.
00:49A nine-mile fence is set to be installed on Derbyshire Moorland
00:53as part of a huge re-wilding project. The National Trust wants to enclose more than
00:584,000 acres of moorland in the Upper Derwent Valley, to the east of the Derwent and Howden
01:02Reservoirs. The aim is to keep out sheep and to allow a bigger mix of plants to grow.
01:08The project is set to start this August and will last for up to three years.
01:12However, concerns about whether it will work and its impact on the environment
01:16have been raised by Rambler's Group. John Harker of the Peak and Northern
01:20Footpath Society said there was concern over footpath access and the very principle of fencing
01:25in a wild environment. He added,
01:29Regeneration of the damage done to the moorland by the human race is to be commended. However,
01:34it is a high price to pay, and without it being part of a national re-wilding and regeneration
01:39strategy, which this government is not providing, it's questionable how effective it's going to be
01:45in the longer term. A National Trust spokesperson
01:48said the fence would be around four feet high and designed to blend in with the landscape.
01:53They added that there would be access for people that's maintained and crossing points
01:57would be installed at regular intervals along the line of the fencing.