Glastonbury is back on… sort of: Festival site in Somerset is opening up for campers – but you’ll need to be quiet after 11pm, and fork out more than £1,000 for a six-night stay Worthy Pastures in Somerset is opening up its fields for a ‘tranquil’ campsite Tents cost from £425 for three nights or … Read more
Locals can now report ‘dirty campers’ trashing Scottish beauty spots to police using geo-location app that gives every 10ft square on Earth a unique three-word name Dirty campers will be reported directly to the police in Scotland due to a new app The initiative was launched by Perth and Kinross Council ahead of summer influx … Read more
How many times in the last few months, days or even hours have you muttered the phrase: I need a holiday? In these bleak wintery months, it’s on my mind constantly and not helped by reminders around the home. The bottle opener fridge magnet bought in a little shop in Key West; a t-shirt from … Read more
The ONE bizarre thing I’m A Celebrity campers aren’t allowed to do in the jungle – with many scenes being cut from series after stars defied the rules By Candice Jackson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 03:02 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 03:02 GMT, 18 January 2021 The stars on I’m A Celebrity… Get … Read more
A hiker shared shared skin-crawling footage showing the ‘worst swarm of midges he has seen in 20 years’. Dr Alan Mackie, from Edinburgh, was camping at Gleann an t-Slugain, Aberdeenshire, when he was set upon by the mass of midges. The footage, taken on Friday morning shows Alan’s tent besieged by thousands of the blood-sucking mites. … Read more
Staycationers have been blasted for littering the UK’s beauty spots with rangers at the Queen’s Balmoral estate shaming wild campers for abandoning tents as the Lake District is buried under mounds of ‘heartbreaking’ rubbish. The estate’s rangers posted a picture of an array of abandoned tents left on Saturday. It echoes a catalogue of other … Read more
Staycationers have been blasted for littering the UK’s beauty spots with rangers at the Queen’s Balmoral estate shaming wild campers for abandoning tents as the Lake District is buried under mounds of ‘heartbreaking’ rubbish. The estate’s rangers posted a picture of an array of abandoned tents left on Saturday. It echoes a catalogue of other … Read more
A National Park boss today hit out at illegal ‘wild campers’ he said left mounds of rubbish behind at British beauty spots. Trevor Beattie, Chief Executive of South Downs National Park Authority, shared a photograph of tents, chairs and coolers surrounded by discarded bottles and bags. Another image taken this weekend captured the remains of … Read more
Balmoral rangers slammed wild campers yesterday after a group had left tents and rubbish strewn on the Queen’s private Scottish estate on Saturday. The estate’s rangers shared a picture on Twitter of the seemingly abandoned tents and rubbish that were left on the Balmoral grounds. Some of the camping chairs were pictured knocked to the … Read more
A fishery owner who killed an otter that had been eating his valuable fish has been sent to jail in the first prosecution of its kind in the UK. Stuart Jones, 54, shot the heavily-protected Eurasian otter with a rifle after it had been caught by an angler in his landing net. At the time … Read more