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Volunteers brave Yorkshire cold to plant trees to help prevent further severe flooding
Treesponsibility activists plant more than a quarter of a million trees to re-forest the Pennines

VOLUNTEERS were braving the foul weather to plant trees high in the Yorkshire Pennines at the weekend to help prevent flooding in the valleys below.

Treesponsibility, which is based in the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire, has planted more than a quarter of a million trees to re-forest the Pennines since the group was founded in 1998.

The group also campaigns against the burning of moorland by landowners to create conditions for grouse breeding and lucrative shooting parties. Burning the moor contributes to flooding.

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