The Latest Breaking News from Dartmoor

Authority given permission to challenge high court ruling in favour of landowner

Move to stop overgrazing harming bird habitats would ‘destroy ancient tradition’ and harm business, say MPs

A bitter dispute between a millionaire hedge fund boss and the campers he has banned from pitching on the land he owns is reaching boiling point, Matt Mathers reports

Lawyers argue judgment to end wild camping without landowner’s permission may be flawed

Exclusive: Shadow environment secretary Jim McMahon says access to land and waterways ‘needs to change’

Brief letters: Donating to charity | Death of a king | War dead | Dartmoor | Jacinda Ardern

When the owners of the 4,000-acre Blachford estate in Dartmoor, a vast moorland in south-west England, recently won the right to exclude campers from their land, it demonstrated how fragile the right to enjoy Britain’s countryside is.

More than 3,000 people protest on estate of Alexander Darwall after his court victory ends right to wild camp in England

Exclusive: Alexander Darwall, who said he brought case to improve conservation, is releasing pheasants near protected woodland