Countryside Guardians Face Axe ; Support Is Mounting for Les Davies and Tina Bath, Whose Vital Jobs As Wardens of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (Aonb) Are Under Threat As Part of a Major Review.

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › January 08, 2009

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Support is mounting for Les Davies and Tina Bath, whose vital jobs as wardens of the Mendip Hills area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) are under threat as part of a major review.

Sir David Wills, landowner and farmer, who owns 1,000 acres of famously picturesque open space at Burrington Ham and Black Rock, said the hills would be worse off without the pair.

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Countryside Guardians Face Axe ; Support Is Mounting for Les Davies and Tina Bath, Whose Vital Jobs As Wardens of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (Aonb) Are Under Threat As Part of a Major Review.

A statement on the situation will be made on Thursday after the AONB decision-making body, the resources steering group, composed of Natural Engl...

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