THE destruction by the county council of heather and gorse estimated to be over 700 years old is being condemned as environmental vandalism by an irate parish councillor. David Lanyon was so outraged that indigenous species, alongside the road between the villages of Crofthandy and St Day, were being ripped up to make way for a wall, that he mounted a one-man protest. He put up banners on the contractor's JCB claiming the county council was destroying what was part of a world heritage site. "They're not abiding by common sense which would mean decent design procedures should come in to play," said Mr Lanyon. "I've just had enough."

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