Friday 28 Jan 2011- What the press is saying - News Links

Here are some news links that may interest you:

UK ministers in partial climbdown over woodland sell-off plan

Backlash at £250 million woodland plans

The Coalition shouldn’t throw our woodland on the quango bonfire

Suffolk: Anger at forests sell-off plan

 Don't sell trees, say campaigners

We will all be the losers if our state-owned forests are sold off

Protests at forest sell-off

Outrage over planned sell-off of Britain's state-owned forests

This green and private land: 637,000 acres of woodland up for sale

Forestry Commission: Facing the chop

Leading article: Safeguard the wood and the trees

UPDATE - NEW LINKS ADDED AT 11:15 AM:

Campaigns set up to oppose forest sell-off

Local groups to get first refusal in controversial woodland sell-off by Government

Cannock Chase petition over forestry sell off

Photographers could keep some access in forest sell-off

Defra forestry plans revealed

Mad about the trees


Update: 12:26 pm

Outcry in the east over forest sell-off plan - BBC

Forest of Dean MP says there's no risk of a sell-off- BBC


Update: 03:45 PM

Forest protest continues, despite government assurances

Comment: Forest sell-off shows the coalition is losing the plot

Government’s forest leasing plan a “recipe for disaster”

CLA backs forestry privatisation with caution

Nothing to fear over forest sale, says MP