Mr Hooper said maram grass would be planted at Grandes Rocques and Port Soif to "shore up the softer coastal defences" and they were looking at possibly encouraging it to grow elsewhere.

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Solutions to America's challenges are being developed every day at the grass roots - and government should not be supplanting those efforts, it should be supporting those efforts.

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Geoff Willetts, senior coast and countryside officer at Fylde Borough Council, said marram grass would also be planted on the dunes.

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The tie against Turkey will take place on the grass courts at Eastbourne between 9-11 July and will be Smith's first tie as captain, following the resignation of John Lloyd after the loss to Lithuania.

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The promotion will be brought to life at retail with in-store POS, social media integration, grass roots activation, radio, and interactive TV on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Old Trafford is a football pitch, so the grass is shorter and with the game kicking off at 1800 BST, the surface will be slippier, so I'm not expecting many long-range tries.

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Last week the company said it was looking at the possibility of giving the grass runway at Land's End airport a hard covering, and that a decision would be made "soon".

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