ACHY BREAKY HEARTS

With a merry, “two fingers to the selfish landowner who wishes to remove a right of access that has taken 130 years to secure”, Right to Roam ramblers descended on the downs in their campaign to open up the site of Breaky Bottom, East Sussex last Saturday (12th).

The landowner had been using the ‘safety hazard’ of an unfenced chalk pit to exclude his farm from the statutory Access Land site. However, the walkers, from the Ramblers Association, Red Rope, and The Land Is Ours, braved the perilous chalk pit and made the site safe for all by fencing the pit off before decorating it with ribbons, banners and placards. Email action4access@googlemail.com