Long service award (From Hereford Times)
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Long service award
12:00pm Thursday 29th September 2011 in Kington
Peter (left) receiving the award of a blotter from the society’s chairman Tim Crowther.
PETER Newman, Kington bookseller and campaigner for public paths, has been given an award for achieving 25 years as a trustee of the Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body.
The society’s trustees presented Peter with a blotter at their recent meeting, to thank him for his long service to the committee and as a campaigner for public paths in the Welsh Marches.
Peter, of Castle Hill Books, invented and runs the Kington Footpath Scheme which works with offenders on Community Payback to erect signposts on public paths and install footbridges and ditch crossings.
It is likely that Peter is the longest-serving trustee in the society’s 146-year history.
