Royal announces amalgamation of four charities to help protect communities and local heritageThe Prince of Wales has urged communities not to lose the dwindling skills that shaped the built environment and prevent specialist trades from disappearing “at an alarming rate”. A royal revolution: is Prince Charles's model village having the last laugh? “I have long believed in a genuinely integrated approach to the way we deal with the challenges of the world around us. Lamenting the loss of certain skills, the prince wrote: “If we had to start again tomorrow, it is far from certain whether we would have the knowledge or experience to recreate them. And he said people’s knowledge of food and what makes a healthy diet had “in some cases, disappeared altogether”.

Source: The Guardian March 10, 2018 23:15 UTC