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		<title>the most useless 52 pages ever committed to print</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following yesterday&#8217;s Guest Blog by John Bryden, former land reform adviser to the Scottish Office, we are delighted to publish the thoughts of Brian Wilson on the topic. Brian was one of the founders of the West Highland Free Press, a newspaper established in part to expose the iniquities of the land question and whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Land Reform: A Comment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are delighted to host this Guest blog from John Bryden who was External Adviser to the Scottish Office Land Reform Policy Group (LRPG) 1997-1999. John delivered the 3rd John McEwen Memorial Lecture in 1996 and now lives and works in Oslo. Further details of John&#8217;s involvement in land relations are detailed at the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land reform withers on the vine of complacency &amp; ignorance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Farming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is probably quite appropriate that today, within 24 hours of publishing her Interim Report, the Chair of the Land Reform Review Group, Alison Elliot, is giving the keynote address to Scottish Land and Estates AGM at Perth racecourse. (1) No doubt she will receive a warm welcome and a rousing cheer from the landed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planting forests is a sure way to grow rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I studied forestry at Aberdeen University at the time of the rapidly expanding afforestation of the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland. One day, the Chief Executive of Fountain Forestry, the company that was the leading player in this misadventure, gave a lecture to us. Afterwards, he invited questions. &#8220;Why, I asked, was the Government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for a decision on Cape Wrath</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scottish Ministers are 220 days late in making a decision as to whether to register an interest submitted by a community group Durness in relation to the Cape Wrath lighthouse. The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 contains provision in Part 2 for communities to apply to Scottish Ministers to register an interest in land in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land reform. Are you on the south or the north bank?</title>
		<link>http://www.andywightman.com/?p=2551</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Land Reform Review Group (LRRG) is due to publish its first report in the next few weeks. The Group, set up as an independent policy review group by the Scottish Government in October 2012 has been given the task of proposing innovative and radical proposals for land reform. Over 500 individuals and organisations have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Inheritance of Abraham</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 09:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A stooshie has been created by the publication of a Church of Scotland report The inheritance of Abraham? A report on the &#8216;promised land&#8217;. The report has been removed from the Church of Scotland&#8217;s General Assembly website page and replaced with a statement. (pdf copy here for when CoS page disappears) Here is the original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who owns Scotland&#8217;s public forests?</title>
		<link>http://www.andywightman.com/?p=2535</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Forestry Commission is planning to sell the 790 hectare Tioran Forest on the Isle of Mull and have advised the community that it has the opportunity to acquire it under the National Forest Land Scheme (NFLS). I have blogged about Mull and forestry already and how it appears that the Scottish Government is intent on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linwood Community Development Trust</title>
		<link>http://www.andywightman.com/?p=2524</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following response was posted as a comment on my previous blog &#8220;Linwood no more. From the Hillman Imp to Tescotown&#8220;. I consider that the content merits a Guest Blog rather than a comment and am delighted to host this response from Linwood Community Development Trust. I should add for clarity that, apart from having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The revolution will start in a hut</title>
		<link>http://www.andywightman.com/?p=2490</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 17:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huts, gardens & urban greesnspace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes life is sweet. People think good thoughts. Folk are inspired to imagine and drive forward a happier, more contented society where we live good lives in good places with economic and political democracy. A little bit of that dream came alive this week. First of all, Liz Grey (pictured above) finally realised her life-long ambition [...]]]></description>
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