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Conservationists have said the Lake District's World Heritage Site status is being used to defend and protect a model of farming which is 'bad for farmers, bad for the environment and bad for wider society'

Lib Dems Rural Affairs Spokesperson Tim Farron asked the Prime Minister if he would personally make the effort and meet sturggling upland hill farmers regarding support

Suzanne Greenhill, from Gloucestershire, provides her perspective on farming common land

The earliest records show Herdwick sheep belonging to the Rawling family roamed the Lake District fells in 1872 and the family has occupied the land in Ennerdale since at least 1620

Cumbrian sheep farmer and author James Rebanks reflects on his decision to turn down the invite to apply for a non-executive director at Defra

Evie Winston, 17, works for land drainage company BPG Contractors, and she is from Oldham in Greater Manchester

Gathering sheep from the fell is an act steeped in tradition - and one mostly unchanged by time

David Hughes helped to save the sheep which had been left high and dry in the Lake District

The code has been introduced at a time when tenants in the north of England are facing notices to quit by estates as a result of 'inheritance tax planning', as well as poor collaboration around the Landscape Recovery project

NSA's chief executive Phil Stocker said he was seeing a 'breakdown in traditional sheep farming and grazing practices', adding with holdings becoming unviable and tenants often not having the opportunity to benefit from the schemes that land is being entered to