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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
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
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
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
Environment news
How the UK can manage competing demands on its landscape Partner content
Environment
By Campaign to Protect Rural England
How the UK can manage competing demands on its landscape
The Campaign to Protect Rural England, the John Muir Trust and the National Trust hosted a discussion between MPs and experts at the Lib Dem conference on UK landscape pressures.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
Project highlights importance of lamb vaccinations
Producers are being reminded to vaccinate lambs before the autumn sets in following the results of an AHDB Beef Lamb-funded post mortem project.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
Recruitment underway for next generation of beef experts
Recruits are being sought for a new industry training scheme to further develop expertise in the English beef sector.
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
Top trunks do battle for nations’ votes in Tree of the Year contest
A tree with links to Joseph of Arimathea, one of Game of Thrones most iconic locations and a tree said to have been visited by William Wallace are among the contenders shortlisted in the Woodland Trusts Tree of the Year contest.
Partner content
Environment
By Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Veterinary surgeons asked to submit CPD records in audit of compliance
As the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) undertakes its second annual audit of continuing professional development for veterinary surgeons, it is reminding members that undertaking CPD is a professional obligation.
Partner content
Environment
By Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Vets host ground-breaking mental health conference for the medical professions
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has joined forces with Maudsley Learning to host a ground-breaking conference to address mental health issues across the medical professions.
Partner content
Environment
By British Gas
British Gas brings to life the wonder of a warm and working home in new winter campaign
The British Gas Warm Working campaign was launched today (Sunday 20th September) during ITVs X Factor (London) and Downton Abbey (rest of UK) ad breaks.
Partner content
Environment
By Nuclear Industry Association
NIA welcomes Chancellor’s civil nuclear commitment
The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) welcomes the Governments support for the Hinkley Point C project as a major step in securing a Final Investment Decision.
British vets launch LGBT group Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
British vets launch LGBT group
British vets have announced the formation of a new LGBT group which will meet at the British Veterinary Association headquarters in London at the end of September.
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
Vets come together to support LGBT colleagues
Vets across the country are coming together to back a new initiative that will support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender colleagues in the veterinary professions and provide a support network promoting fairness and equality for all.
Replace Britain’s rural boilers to offset energy efficiency funding cuts, urges UKLPG Partner content
Environment
By Calor Gas
Replace Britain’s rural boilers to offset energy efficiency funding cuts, urges UKLPG
Britain’s ageing, rural boilers must be replaced in order to improve energy efficiency, according to industry experts.
Partner content
Environment
By Campaign to Protect Rural England
Ministerial support for Our Green Belt campaign
Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis has responded to our letter marking the 60th anniversary of the Green Belt, recognising the support for the Green Belt shown in our survey, and emphasising the Governments commitment to protecting Green Belt.
Partner content
Environment
By Calor Gas
Replace Britain’s rural boilers to boost household energy efficiency, urges UKLPG
Following announcements that the government is set to make substantial cuts to household energy efficiency funding, LP Gas trade association, UKLPG, is urging ministers to consider a future rural boiler replacement programme following Parliaments return from recess this week.
Partner content
Environment
By Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
RCVS consults the profession on competences for recent graduates
This week the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has launched a consultation asking members of the profession for their views on a new set of Year-One Competences the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours that the College believes a veterinary surgeon should possess on the completion of the Professional Development Phase (PDP).
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
Vets and farmers play a key role in achieving Northern Ireland Brucellosis free status
Following the EU declaration that Northern Ireland is Officially Brucellosis Free (OBF) (9 September) the British Veterinary Association and BVA Northern Ireland Branch commend the hard work of farmers, ministers and local vets in eradicating this disease affecting both animals and humans from Northern Ireland.
Partner content
Environment
By Mott MacDonald
Mott MacDonald designing £19 million Sheffield Lower Don Valley flood defence project, UK
Mott MacDonald has begun design work on the Sheffield Lower Don Valley flood defence project, one of the largest flood protection schemes in the UK.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
National advertising campaign to promote lamb and beef
A new 1 million TV and online advertising campaign is being launched this autumn to promote Quality Standard Mark (QSM) and Red Tractor lamb and beef.
Partner content
Environment
By Energy Technologies Institute
Importance of innovation to help the UK meet its carbon targets highlighted in new ETI report
The UK needs innovation to help meet its carbon targets, but successful low carbon innovation should not just focus on technological breakthroughs, according to a new report by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI).
Partner content
Environment
By Energy Technologies Institute
ETI appoints TRL to lead integrated energy and transport project to encourage wider adoption of plug-in vehicles
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has appointed TRL, the UKs Transport Research Laboratory, to lead its Consumers, Vehicles and Energy Integration (CVEI) project
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
Help the Woodland Trust track autumn’s arrival across the UK
The Woodland Trust is looking for signs of autumn from people acrossthe countryas it tracks the arrival of the season on its Natures Calendar survey.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
New steak guide aims to revolutionise menus
A new guide to help chefs and foodservice operators maximise their profits from a range of steak cuts and provide menu inspiration has been developed by AHDB Beef Lamb.
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
Sweet scented poo confirms presence of pine martens at Glen Devon Woodlands
Droppings with the tell-tale scent of Parma violets have confirmed the presence of pine martens within a large new native woodland.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
AHDB autumn beef and lamb promotion campaign ‘will launch in October’
A 1.6 million autumn promotional campaign for beef and lamb cuts will be launched next month, following approval from Ministers on Monday.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
International spotlight for AHDB Beef Lamb
Quality Standard Mark (QSM) beef and lamb will next month take centre stage in front of a global audience at the foremost industry event of 2015.
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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