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The British Isles has a huge variety and richness of landscapes, buildings, wildlife, history and cultural association which helps give each area its local identity. This local distinctiveness is being eroded by mass production, out-of-town shopping developments, signs and shop fronts, roadsides and landscape planting, all of which are tending to make one area look...