Many thanks, I'll send them an email. Ta!

Hi all, I'm based in the Scottish Borders, where I am a leader of a local Scout group. I am looking to get assessed for a "Caving with SRT for the leader" permit. It doesn't appear that there are any assessors in Scotland and the Manager of the Activity Permit Scheme up here has no contact...

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It wouldn't actually be closing a cave though would it... just an entrance. In this case, closing the entrance may well win the support of many cavers. The PDCMG is a cave management group, not an access committee, the clue is in the name. "fundamental truth", "inevitable".... long words to...

Keep looking. You'll also find stuff about illegal diamond mining in Angola too. Shame you can't buy mercenaries off Mugabe with welsh cave mud or else Nig might be onto something.

Dear NigR It all makes sense now. Think I am going to set up a caving club of my own. Might call it the Jack Booted Nazi Caving Club. I'll be able to chuckle to myself when caving in Poland at least! Naming yourself after a group allegedly responsible for the massacre of children and the...

Dear NigR, I find it hard to believe that as an explorer of genuinely virgin cave passage you are not, at least in some sense, attracted by wilderness experiences. If this is true then I have learned something new today, up until now I honestly thought all cave explorers enjoyed experiences in...