CAMPAIGNING MP Gordon Prentice will celebrate his victory in the battle for a Right to Roam when he gives a keynote speech to a Lancashire County Council seminar on the countryside tomorrow .
He will speak out just days before the Government announces legislation to give people rights to the countryside in the Queen's Speech setting out its legislative programme.
The full day seminar at County Hall, organised by Lancashire's Countryside Service, will involve a wide range of rural interests, including the National Farmers Union and the new Countryside Agency.
Pendle MP Mr Prentice has campaigned for greater rights for ramblers to walk on privately owned, uncultivated land which is not the subject of special scientific or other interests.
Mr Prentice said today: "The Bill will give people the right to walk across, open uncultivated country. Bouldsworth Hill and thousands of acres of outstanding beautiful countryside on our own doorstep in East Lancashire will be available for us all to enjoy."
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