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SaturdayÌý22nd December
Bethan Bell visits Aviemore in the Scottish Highlands, where visitor numbers are falling alongside fewer snowfalls.
Snowy days inÌý are getting rarer - and if the snow doesn't come, then nor do the skiiers. At the foot ofÌý in the Scottish highlands, the town was little but a railway station until the 1950s, when bulldozers moved in and created ski-runs.ÌýA 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 -Ìý and winter sports enthusiastsÌýwant to go where the weather is guaranteed. So what else can Aviemore offer?
Tilly Smith from theÌý introduces Bethan Bell to her herd, including Creran (pictured above); Heather MorningÌý goes up CairngormÌýon 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 theÌý - an odd-looking turkey-sized bird which is even rarer in the area than skiiers.
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