Green Triumph the South Downs Gets Park Status [Edition 2]

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THE South Downs is to become a national park, more than 60 years after it was recommended for the designation. The area of Sussex and Hampshire was given the go-ahead a decade ago but this has been held up by legal wrangling and a public inquiry over its boundaries.

Today Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said the downs, a tract of countryside of rolling chalk uplands, river valleys and woodland between Winchester and Eastbourne, is to be given the status. The new national park covers an area of 627 square miles -- home to 120,000 people -- and includes the Western Weald region, whose inclusion had been contested.

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Green Triumph the South Downs Gets Park Status [Edition 2]

Mr Benn said: ...

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