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Thread #46922   Message #699366
Posted By: Peter K (Fionn)
26-Apr-02 - 10:08 PM
Thread Name: 70th anniversary of UK mass trespass
Subject: RE: 70th anniversary of UK mass trespass
8 pints, I saw the good man's televised apology - in which he apologised primarily for his ancesters' gamekeepers! He's still got to explain why he owns most of Derbyshire, when he is in fact the Duke of Devonshire....

Thanks for the reminder Grab - I'm going to try to make it.

By the way, next Monday (29 April) is the funeral of Gordon Skinner, a longstanding fighter for the right to roam, an NUM leader and a member of Nottinghamshire County Council for many years. (Also Dennis's kid brother.) Gordon had had cancer for several years. I gather it's to be a secular funeral, and his ashes are to be scattered on Kinder Scout. RIP.