Saving our Landscape ? This week has seen a few interesting developments... On Monday, Bill Bryson became the new president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. He gave a speech which was reported in the Guardian and can now be read on the CPRE's website. Bill Bryson's speech This had a lot of useful Geography in it: particularly the idea about the UK landscape and the threats that it faces. Later in the week, there was an interesting letter from Peter Dunn published in the Guardian which gave an alternative view of CPRE's policies, referring to Prunella Scales, who starred in a series of Tesco ads, but was also a former president. A good section in the middle of the letter would make a great discussion starter: "I've never met a farmer who doesn't loathe supermarkets for what they are doing to the farming community, yet the CPRE saw no conflict of interests in her appointment. Likewise it remains coy about the annexation of rural housing by wealthy towns...