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Alastair Leake: Cowslips secure reprieve in Spending Review

Alastair Leake, Director of Policy at the GWCT’s Allerton Project demonstration farm, reflects on the Spending Review

Alex Black
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Alastair Leake: Cowslips secure reprieve in Spending Review

Just last month I was admiring the display of cowslips in one of our field margins. These were not sown here by us but have rejuvenated themselves from the seedbank from the days long ago when this field...

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