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Article from today's UK Independent:
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Robin Hood's forest planted
Tree planting begins today on 14 colliery
waste tips in Nottinghamshire. The Forestry
Commission said the result of planting two
million saplings over the next 18 months will
be to restore Sherwood Forest to its
greatest size since the Middle Ages.
The £10m project involves eight former pits
covering around 2,000 acres. In the past,
old tips would normally have been restored
to farmland, but this time it has been
decided that reforestation would bring
bigger environmental benefits as well as
encouraging investment.
The land has been transferred from British
Coal to Nottinghamshire County Council in
perpetuity. Six of the old colliery sites will
be redeveloped to attract new businesses.
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