Yesterday I heard a new piece of music by Patrick Hedley, or Hadley, entitled Kinder Scout. I thought that it was quite good. If you want to go back to listen, it was on about 9am on Radio 3.
Just listened to it on You Tube. To my uneducated ear it sounds a bit like the background music for a Catherine Earnshaw/ Heathcliff bit of dalliance on the moor so maybe the tone is right. I doubt a rewilded Kinder looking more like Kielder would have evoked the same response from the composer.
The Irish Government today announced the creation of a new National Park, the country's eighth. Located on the Dingle Peninsula, Páírc Náisiúnta na Mara, Ciarraí includes the rugged Conor Pass, the unique island of Sceilg Mhichíl, and Mount Brandon, one of...