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Saturday听22nd December
Bethan Bell visits Aviemore in the Scottish Highlands, where visitor numbers are falling alongside fewer snowfalls.
Snowy days in听 are getting rarer - and if the snow doesn't come, then nor do the skiiers. At the foot of听 in the Scottish highlands, the town was little but a railway station until the 1950s, when bulldozers moved in and created ski-runs.听A tourist resort was created overnight - and until a few years ago, it was thriving. But snow is getting less predictable while the prices of foreign skiing holidays fall -听 and winter sports enthusiasts听want to go where the weather is guaranteed. So what else can Aviemore offer?
Tilly Smith from the听 introduces Bethan Bell to her herd, including Creran (pictured above); Heather Morning听 goes up Cairngorm听on a to show Bethan the snow at the top, and Neil Hicking talks about the . Down in , David Jarden from the Forestry Commission bemoans the plight of the听 - an odd-looking turkey-sized bird which is even rarer in the area than skiiers.
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