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NEW 27th June 2008

1. Canoeist arrested after fees row - As reported on the BBC Website (26th June 2008) A canoeist has been arrested following a dispute over rights of access along a stretch of the River Dee. To see the full BBC news website report: click the link right....

2. The MailOnline also covered this story.....

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NEW 17th June 2008 IOL is now a Charity Registered in Scotland - Number SC039561
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NEW 5th June 2008 Scottish Conservatives call for all teenagers to be given the right to outdoor education.
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12th May 2008 The government has made a significant commitment to improving skills by giving the go ahead on a National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure
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28th April 2008 Brian Ware has died after being ill for some time. A sad loss to the world of outdoor adventure
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16th April 2008 Six New Zealand school students and a teacher on an outdoor adventure course killed in flash flood
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31st March 2008 Liverpool Hope University celebrates over twenty-five years of outdoor courses with a £280,000 cash injection
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25th March 2008 £215m funding pot available for outdoor and environmental organisations
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29th February 2008 IOL Announces their first Vice President - Conrad Dickinson (FRGS)
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14th February 2008 Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto: NEWS. Incl. Issue 3 of the e-newsletter
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13th February 2008

Ralph Montagu To Open New Activity Centre in Beaulieu at Easter

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5th February 2008

'Staying Safe' Action Plan, launched today by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Also in the news....Children should be allowed to play outdoors more.... So say the Conservatives.

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