National Parks in England "have lost millions in government funding"

Image caption Exmoor is one of England"s best-known National Parks National Parks in England have lost millions of pounds of government funding in the past five years, says the Press Association news agency.
Their funding was cut by a quarter from 2011 to 2016, according to an investigation by the agency.
The government is committed to raising parks" budgets between now and 2020.
However, funding in 2020 will be as much as a fifth below 2010 levels, said the study, even before inflation is taken into account.
Among the parks affected were the Peak District, with annual funding cut from £8.3m to £6.3m, and the Lake District from £6.9m to £5.2m.
The investigation found that once inflation was taken into account cuts over the five years were even more severe, at 40% in real terms.
In 2015, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) pledged to increase the direct grant for National Parks by 1.72% a year for most parks up to 2020.
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National Front mayor creates "Rue du Brexit" in French town

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Front National mayor of Beaucaire, Julien Sanchez, announced the name change on Twitter A little corner of France is set to pay tribute to Britain"s decision to leave the EU after a town"s mayor created a “Rue du Brexit”.
Julien Sanchez, a member of France"s far right National Front (FN), suggested the name in order “to pay homage to the choice of the British people” following the referendum.
The road will sit next to Rue Robert-Schumann and Avenue Jean-Monnet – regarded as founders of the EU.
The FN want to see France leave the EU.
The party"s leader Marine Le Pen is expected to reach the second round of the presidential elections in 2017, with polls suggesting she will come second to conservative candidate Francois Fillon.
Councillors in the town of Beaucaire – which sits in one of the FN"s heartlands in the south, near Marseille – voted for the name by 23 to nine.
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TALK is cheap. Since 1997 Canada has signed five global climate deals pledging to lower its greenhouse-gas emissions. However, it has never implemented a national climate plan. Instead, its ten provinces and three territories have mostly been free to do their own thing.
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A small act of national suicide in Peru

FOR most of this century, Peru’s economy has shone: income per person has doubled in the past dozen years. But education failed to keep up. In 2012 Peru ranked last among the 65 countries that took part in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which tests the reading, maths and science proficiency of 15-year-olds.
Fortunately, Peru then..

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