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Labour Figures Grow Nervous About Net Zero After Reform Success
Labour Figures Grow Nervous About Net Zero After Reform Success
Environment
Labour MPs are growing increasingly nervous about the government’s approach to net zero following Reform’s sweeping success in the local and mayoral elections.
Labour MP Warns Planning Reforms Could Overwhelm Environment Regulator
Environment
Labour MP Warns Planning Reforms Could Overwhelm Environment Regulator
Victoria Atkins: I’ve Cross-Examined Gun-Toting Drug Lords – Labour MPs Don't Worry Me
Environment
Victoria Atkins: I’ve Cross-Examined Gun-Toting Drug Lords – Labour MPs Don't Worry Me
An official register of fire safety certificates will protect homeowners from bad actors
Environment
By Matt Western MP
An official register of fire safety certificates will protect homeowners from bad actors
Labour Figures Come Out Against Chancellor's 'Environmentally Illiterate' Plans
Environment
Labour Figures Come Out Against Chancellor's 'Environmentally Illiterate' Plans
Labour Sticks To Its Guns On Inheritance Tax Despite Farmer Backlash
Environment
Labour Sticks To Its Guns On Inheritance Tax Despite Farmer Backlash
Greens Urge Government To Rethink Tax On Farming
Environment
Greens Urge Government To Rethink Tax On Farming
Opinion
Rural notspots – why there's no phone signal in the countryside and how to fix it
Environment
By Simon Rockman
Rural notspots – why there's no phone signal in the countryside and how to fix it
Defra has lost its way
Environment
By Alistair Carmichael MP
Defra has lost its way
We cannot continue to take a flippant approach to how we feed the nation
Environment
By Baroness Batters
We cannot continue to take a flippant approach to how we feed the nation
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Labour Figures Grow Nervous About Net Zero After Reform Success
Labour Figures Grow Nervous About Net Zero After Reform Success
Environment
The Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act should cause no confusion – the judgment is a model of clarity
The Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act should cause no confusion – the judgment is a model of clarity
By Baroness Kishwer Falkner
Social affairs
Blue Labour's Jonathan Rutherford Is Helping No 10 Find Purpose, Energy And A Story To Tell
Blue Labour's Jonathan Rutherford Is Helping No 10 Find Purpose, Energy And A Story To Tell
Political parties
Local Elections 2025: Reform Soars As Tories And Labour Suffer Bruising Results
Local Elections 2025: Reform Soars As Tories And Labour Suffer Bruising Results
Communities
Keir Starmer Would Harm Labour’s Chances In Runcorn By-Election, Say Labour MPs
Keir Starmer Would Harm Labour’s Chances In Runcorn By-Election, Say Labour MPs
Political parties
Defeat in Runcorn was entirely avoidable – the Labour leadership must now change course
Defeat in Runcorn was entirely avoidable – the Labour leadership must now change course
By Richard Burgon MP
Political parties
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Victoria Atkins: I’ve Cross-Examined Gun-Toting Drug Lords – Labour MPs Don't Worry Me
Environment
Victoria Atkins: I’ve Cross-Examined Gun-Toting Drug Lords – Labour MPs Don't Worry Me
Sienna Rodgers talks to shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins who aims her fire at ‘City Steve’, ‘showman’ Nigel Farage and the government’s ‘Marxist’ policy on compulsory purchase
The spiders that ate Ebbsfleet
Environment
By Michael Dnes
The spiders that ate Ebbsfleet
As we – once again – await the unveiling of a host of proposed new towns, Michael Dnes tells the extraordinary cautionary tale of how an industrial wasteland in Kent just 17 minutes by high-speed train from central London remains a spiders’ paradise
A nuclear kettle of fish at Hinkley Point C
Environment
By Tali Fraser
A nuclear kettle of fish at Hinkley Point C
Is a trawler’s worth of fish getting in the way of our nuclear ambitions? Tali Fraser investigates something fishy going on around Hinkley Point C
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Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
Former AHDB Beef Lamb Chairman awarded prestigious Royal Smithfield Club prize
Sheep farmer and former Chairman of AHDB Beef Lamb, John Cross, has been honoured by the Royal Smithfield Club for his services to the livestock industry over the last 25 years.
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
BVA/BVA NI response to compulsory BVD testing announcement
Responding to the announcement made by DARD minister Michelle ONeill (1 December), the British Veterinary Association and the British Veterinary Association Northern Ireland Branch have welcomed plans to bring forward draft legislation to make Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) testing compulsory in Northern Ireland.
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
Badger vaccine suspension in Wales a blow to eradication programme
BVA response to Welsh Government announcement that Badger vaccination project is to be suspended due to the global shortage of the BCG vaccine.
Partner content
Environment
By Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
CIWM responds to EU Circular Economy package
In an initial comment on the European Commission's circular economy package launched today, CIWM's Chief Executive Steve Lee said:
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
Launch of Lebey Guide promotes QSM beef and lamb in Paris
Quality Standard Mark (QSM) beef and lamb has been placed alongside some of the top bistros and restaurants in London and Paris following the launch of a new gastronomic guide which recognises eateries of distinction in the two cities.
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
Screening and responsible breeding are improving dog health, new statistics show
Health testing designed to support responsible dog breeding by screening for hereditary conditions is helping to improve the health of breeds across the UK, according to new statistics from the Canine Health Schemes.
Partner content
Environment
By Turn2us
Charity launches star-studded clothes auction to help people struggling in cold homes this winter
A host of famous faces including Ed Sheeran, Dame Helen Mirren, Hugh Laurie, Sir Chris Hoy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeremy Irons and Fern Britton have joined forces with Turn2us to help fight fuel poverty in the UK by donating items for the charitys biggest ever celebrity clothes auction.
Partner content
Environment
By Energy Technologies Institute
ETI seeks partners for a new project examining the ways that different networks could integrate and the potential for a multi-vector approach to future energy supply
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is seeking partners for a project which aims to understand the opportunity for and implications of moving to more integrated multi-vector networks.
Partner content
Environment
By Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Golden Jubilee Award for veterinary nurses relaunched for 2016
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has relaunched its Golden Jubilee Award, an accolade which recognises those veterinary nurses who are playing a leadership role within the profession.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
First data collection completed in national beef cattle feed efficiency programme
Data collection is now complete for the first batch of cattle involved in the ground-breaking Beef Feed Efficiency Programme, marking an important project milestone.
What this week's Spending Review means for the Environment Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
What this week's Spending Review means for the Environment
Dr James Cooper, Head of Government Affairs at the Woodland Trust reviews the Spending Review and Autumn Statement and assess the impact on national parks, forests and the environment.
Partner content
Environment
By Energy Saving Trust
Energy Saving Trust announces the 2015 Fleet Heroes
The Energy Saving Trust is delighted to announce the 11 winners for the 2015 Fleet Hero Awards.
Concerns raised that waste and resources will be hit by Spending Review cuts Partner content
Environment
By Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
Concerns raised that waste and resources will be hit by Spending Review cuts
The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management gives its reaction to the Chancellor’s Comprehensive Spending Review
Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Wool Insulation Manufacturers Association
The Mineral Wool Manufacturers Association (MIMA) has today responded to the Spending Review and Autumn Statement
MIMA along with leading businesses and charities have come together in the lead up to the Spending Review to urge the Government to recognise energy efficiency as a national infrastructure priority and to use capital funds to improve our homes across the UK the homes that are the draughtiest in Western Europe.
Partner content
Environment
By Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
Waste and resources likely to feel the impact of Spending Review cuts, says CIWM
Responding to the Chancellors Autumn Spending Review, the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has expressed concern that significant cuts to key departmental budgets, as well as the cut in central grant funding to local authorities, could have a significant impact on the waste and resource management industry.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
AHDB Outlook Conference 2016 date announced
EU membership and the livestock sectors competitiveness will come under the spotlight at the 2016 Agriculture Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) Outlook Conference.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
Top quality ram semen sought by RamCompare
The search has resumed for ram semen to be used as part of the UKs first large-scale commercial progeny test.
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
Autumn Statement - BVA reaction to Defra cuts
In response to the Chancellors Autumn Statement and Spending Review (25 November), where he announced that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) operating budget will be cut by 15%, BVA President Sean Wensley said:
Osborne must face up to UK’s plutonium stockpile, NIA warns Partner content
Environment
By Nuclear Industry Association
Osborne must face up to UK’s plutonium stockpile, NIA warns
The Nuclear Industry Association has today welcomed the Government’s commitment to the nuclear sector and its additional funding for nuclear research and development, including the development of Small Modular Reactors.
Partner content
Environment
By Campaign to Protect Rural England
Autumn Statement and Spending Review - designated landscapes
CPRE reacts to the Autumn Statement and Spending Review, where the Chancellor made a number of announcements on issues affecting the countryside.
Autumn Statement 2015: Osborne’s ‘short-term’ proposals threaten the environment, Woodland Trust says Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
Autumn Statement 2015: Osborne’s ‘short-term’ proposals threaten the environment, Woodland Trust says
The Government’s long term ambition to be ‘the first generation to leave the natural environment of England in a better state than it inherited,’ is under question today after the Chancellor’s housing focussed Autumn Statement, according to a leading charity.
Partner content
Environment
By Turn2us
Winter deaths at highest level for 15 years
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has today released figures showing that nearly 44,000 excess winter deaths occurred in 2014/15, 27% higher than in non-winter months and the highest level of excess winter deaths since 1999/00.
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
The Woodland Trust announces appointment of new Chair
The Woodland Trust is delighted to announce the appointment of Baroness Young of Old Scone as its next Chair. She will take up the role in May 2016 when current Chair, Dr Nicola Nicholls, steps down after six years as Chair.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
Sheep Breeders’ Round Table hailed a success
Nearly 200 sheep industry representatives attended the 2015 Sheep Breeders Round Table, making it the biggest event yet.
EventsAll
Journey to Safety: Combatting Disability Hate Crime on Public Transport
2025
Surveyor's House, 12 Great George Street, SW1P 3AD
Journey to Safety: Combatting Disability Hate Crime on Public Transport
Starmer: One Year On
2025
Online
Starmer: One Year On
Net Zero Week 2025
2025
Virtual
Net Zero Week 2025