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Page 7 of 7 It has now come to light that the National Trust and Natural ‘England’ intend to carve out the coast path to a width of 13 feet, their stated reason being to allow two people to walk abreast. I’m aware of obesity concerns but…six and a half foot wide people? It is an absurdity and a needlessly expensive one. Natural ‘England’, aware of the rising opposition to their project, has now taken to the shameful but predictable tactic of trying to frighten the public. Grazing cattle on the moor, it claimed recently in the local newspaper, will prevent moor fires that will have people running screaming from their endangered homes. Moor fires happen, and some of them have been huge. I have never, in half a century, heard of any dwelling being consumed by a moor fire. How will cattle prevent the fires? Perhaps Natural ‘England’ will train them to line up and mass-urinate on the flames to put them out?  Readers might like to know that the HEATH Project requested (unsuccessfully) to see this article before it went to print. A website, www.savepenwithmoors.com has been set up to give the facts and invite people to petition and protest against this latest threat to our Cornish heritage. My message to Natural ‘England’, to DEFRA and to the National Trust is this: abandon this ill-advised and damaging project and, instead, restore the successful and beneficial ESA scheme. | |||||||||