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• Countywise - your guide to events in your area
Understanding the relationship between brown and sea trout
Make it count
The fourth Big Farmland Bird Count is on its way
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Also in this issue 25 years of Allerton songbirds
Remembering the Duke of Westminster
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The importance of monitoring
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The issues facing our countryside as Britain prepares to leave the European Union
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