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Colin Smyth: "The failure to deliver has left Dumfries and Galloway, once again, Scotland's forgotten region"

Labour MSP Colin Smyth has written exclusively for ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã on Scottish Government's decision not to proceed with Galloway and Ayrshire as the location for Scotland's third National Park

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Colin Smyth, MSP for South Scotland, said: "This was not just a rejection of the Park. It was a rejection of any plan for the region's future. We have been left with nothing."
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Colin Smyth, MSP for South Scotland, said: "This was not just a rejection of the Park. It was a rejection of any plan for the region's future. We have been left with nothing."

Imagine a National Park designed not in Edinburgh, but in Galloway. One that worked with farmers and foresters, not against them. That was the vision many held by many. Galloway National Park...

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