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Herefordshire river will take decades to recover from 'vandalism' (www.bbc.co.uk)
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An ecologist says it will take 20 to 30 years for a stretch of River Lugg in Herefordshire to recover after being damaged by a local farmer.

John Price was jailed in 2023 for illegally removing tonnes of gravel from the riverbed to build a road and horse yard at his home and tearing out 71 trees.

He was ordered to pay £600,000 and to restore the damage he had done.

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[–] -1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I find it tiresome when people get on their high horse because they don’t understand what a quote is.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I find it tiresome when people act like the media have no choice in what to quote. Why quote it as 'vandalism' and not "riverside destruction"?

    The media, which is owned and controlled by the ruling class, choose how to frame stories. They have reasons for their choices. You can pretend that the BBC is unbiased if you wish to remain ignorant, but my refusal to do so has nothing to do with a high horse and everything to do with my frustration with mainstream media relentlessly defending the interests of the ruling class and minimizing the harm they cause.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Interesting you bring up “riverside destruction”, as this is the headline linking to the story from the BBC News front page:

    How a farmer caused ‘the worst case of riverside destruction’ in England

    What’s that clop-clop sound?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm glad they changed it. I guess I wasn't the only person to be frustrated.

    The BBC is way, way worse for doing this around other topics, especially Israel's genocide.

    What’s that clop-clop sound?

    Not sure what this is a reference too, maybe I'm too young

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