Scottish ministers have been urged to rethink restrictions on controlled burning on moorland after a report disclosed recent wildfires were the largest Scotland has ever seen.

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Scottish Land and Estates (SLE) estimates the fires that broke out in late June and early July affected 29,225 acres (11,827 hectares) - an area almost 30 times bigger than Lanarkshire's Strathclyde ...

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Ross Ewing, SLE's director of moorland, said: "The Carrbridge and Dava wildfires represent the largest such event in Scotland's history and without the extraordinary intervention of rural businesses, ...

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The report refers to the Carrbridge and Dava wildfires earlier this year, in which 11,827 hectares of land were burnt.