Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped

Thousands of miles of footpaths that faced being lost forever could now be saved after the government committed to lifting a deadline for all rights of ways in England to be mapped.People had been given until 2031 to have all historic but unrecorded public paths and bridleways added to the nation's official "definitive map".The government said scrapping the cut-off date would give councils time to assess whether…