Article: Park gives guarded welcome to news of more funds.

NORTHUMBERLAND National Park Authority (NNPA) has given a cautious welcome to the news that English National Parks are to receive a year on year increase of just over 2% over the next two years, which will help to meet the cost of inflation.

The announcement by Defra means an additional [pounds sterling]69,000 for the NNPA in this current financial year, with a further increase of [pounds sterling]76,000 in 2007/08. However, it looks like it has come too late to save up to 14 jobs which are being axed because the authority has already slashed its budget by [pounds sterling]500,000 over the next two years. Defra is the main funding body of the national parks in ...

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