A FORMER RAF air commodore from North Yorkshire is the new chairman of the national Moorland Association. Simon Bostock, of the Dallowgill Estate in Nidderdale, near Harrogate, has worked on the MA's committee for five years.
The association represents the owners and managers of 750,000 of the 800,000 acres of heather moorland in England and Wales. "I see the role of the Moorlands Association as pressing home the many positive benefits of grouse moor management," said the new chairman.
"It is grouse shooting revenues that have preserved, and continue to preserve, our heather moorland at little or no cost to the taxpayer."
Updated: 10:43 Thursday, June 14, 2001
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