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Food Prices Could Rise By Almost A Fifth This Autumn, Officials Believe
Food Prices Could Rise By Almost A Fifth This Autumn, Officials Believe
Environment
Exclusive: Food inflation could come close to 20% this year, some government officials believe, in the latest glimpse of the worsening cost-of-living crisis that awaits Boris Johnson's successor.
Struggling Government Staff Are Using Food Banks Due To Real Terms Pay Cuts
Environment
Struggling Government Staff Are Using Food Banks Due To Real Terms Pay Cuts
Calls For Water Company Bosses To Face Prison Over Sewage Pollution
Environment
Calls For Water Company Bosses To Face Prison Over Sewage Pollution
Chicken Will Get More Expensive In The UK After Putin's Ukraine Invasion
Environment
Chicken Will Get More Expensive In The UK After Putin's Ukraine Invasion
Minister Warns Storm Eunice Is 'Risk To Life And Limb' As People Urged To Stay At Home
Environment
Minister Warns Storm Eunice Is 'Risk To Life And Limb' As People Urged To Stay At Home
Rishi Sunak Urged To Drop Green Levy To Ease The Cost Of Living Crisis
Environment
Rishi Sunak Urged To Drop Green Levy To Ease The Cost Of Living Crisis
Government Accused Of 'Blind Optimism' Over Post-Brexit Farming Plans
Environment
Government Accused Of "Blind Optimism" Over Post-Brexit Farming Plans
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The next prime minister must maintain our place as a world leader in animal welfare
Environment
By Lorraine Platt
The next prime minister must maintain our place as a world leader in animal welfare
Why forestry should be at the top of the next Prime Minister's agenda Partner content
Environment
By Confor
Why forestry should be at the top of the next Prime Minister's agenda
Selaine Saxby: The next prime minister must level up our countryside to retain the trust of rural communities
Environment
By Selaine Saxby MP
Selaine Saxby: The next prime minister must level up our countryside to retain the trust of rural communities
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Fears Blackouts Could Lead To Empty Supermarket Shelves Raised By Government
Fears Blackouts Could Lead To Empty Supermarket Shelves Raised By Government
Economy
Money Expert Compares Energy Crisis Inaction To UK 'Watching European Hospital Beds Fill Up' With Covid
Money Expert Compares Energy Crisis Inaction To UK "Watching European Hospital Beds Fill Up" With Covid
Economy
New Asylum Centre On Hold After Ben Wallace 'Withdraws' Former RAF Base Offer
New Asylum Centre On Hold After Ben Wallace "Withdraws" Former RAF Base Offer
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The next prime minister must maintain our place as a world leader in animal welfare
Environment
By Lorraine Platt
The next prime minister must maintain our place as a world leader in animal welfare
Over the last four decades, the Conservative Party has time and again led the way in advancing animal welfare.
Why can't BEIS and the Treasury get on?
Environment
By Tom Sasse
Why can't BEIS and the Treasury get on?
At the heart of the government’s problems with the cost-of-living crisis is a rupture between the two departments charged with managing the economy. Is it just down to the personalities, or is there something deeper going on? Tom Sasse reports.
Shelf preservation society: major challenges await UK supply chains this year
Environment
By Adam Payne
Shelf preservation society: major challenges await UK supply chains this year
If Britain’s supermarkets are to remain well-stocked, the government must address the long-term challenges facing the supply chain. From labour shortages to Brexit bureaucracy, there are gaps in the system that puts food on the table, writes Adam Payne.
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Partner content
Environment
By Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Six overseas veterinary surgeons welcomed to the Register after passing examinations
The President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), Dr Bradley Viner, has welcomed six veterinary surgeons to the UK Register after they passed the Statutory Examination for Membership of the RCVS.
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
No cheesy grins as Trust reveals winners of ‘Say Trees!’ photography contest
A beautiful photograph of a scene at Ullswater in the Lake District has won the Woodland Trusts Say Trees! photo competition, chosen from more than 1,500 entries submitted from outdoor locations across the UK.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
French trade issue adds to British farmer lamb woes
French trade disruption, poor consumer demand and the strength of the Pound are continuing to depress the sheep price for British farmers.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
Call to farmers to highlight lamb cooking resources
Farmers are being urged to back a 7.7 million campaign to encourage more people to cook with lamb.
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
Get your kids drawing this summer holiday and you could be on your way to Europe!
The Woodland Trust has put out a call to all parents, grandparents and children this summer, gather together all the budding young artists in your families - pick up a paintbrush, sharpen those crayons and enter the Trusts exciting Doodle Bugs Drawing Competition.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
Shoppers in Cyprus buy Quality Standard Mark beef for first time
Families in Cyprus can now buy Quality Standard Mark (QSM) beef lamb after it was listed in supermarkets there for the first time.
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
Trust calls on tree planting army to replace millions of ash trees across the countryside
Studies by the Woodland Trust suggest the impact of ash dieback on 12 million trees outside of woods could prove disastrous both for wildlife and our cherished landscapes, with the charity launching a new initiative encouraging people to plant trees specifically in areas badly affected by the tree disease.
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
Trust calls on tree planting army to replace millions of ash trees across the countryside
Studies by the Woodland Trust suggest the impact of ash dieback on 12 million trees outside of woods could prove disastrous both for wildlife and our cherished landscapes, with the charity launching a new initiative encouraging people to plant trees specifically in areas badly affected by the tree disease.
Vets across the country ‘struggling to recruit,’ BVA says Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
Vets across the country ‘struggling to recruit,’ BVA says
Veterinary practices across the country are struggling to recruit staff, according to new evidence.
Partner content
Environment
By University of Exeter
New research finds aquariums deliver health and wellbeing benefits
People who spend time watching aquariums and fish tanks could see improvements in their physical and mental wellbeing, according to new research published in the journal Environment Behavior.
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
Struggling to recruit? You are not alone
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has found evidence that recruitment problems are widespread in practices across the country.
Partner content
Environment
By Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
RCVS news: ADR trial nearing completion with two-thirds of cases referred
The alternative dispute resolution (ADR) trial launched by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) at the end of last year is now nearing completion with over two-thirds of its target number of cases either resolved or in process.
Partner content
Environment
By Glass and Glazing Federation
GGF reacts to Green Deal funding announcement
The Government announced last week that there will be no further funding to the Green Deal Finance Company, in a move to protect taxpayers.
Partner content
Environment
By University of Exeter
Free online therapy for depression offered as part of exciting new research trial
Researchers from the University of Exeter have launched a large-scale research study to improve understanding of treatments that are currently offered to people with depression. The aim of the trial is to develop stronger, more effective and more widely available treatments.
Partner content
Environment
By Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
RCVS congratulates international veterinary nurses on exam success
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has congratulated eight international veterinary nurses after they passed examinations allowing them to join the Register.
Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Wool Insulation Manufacturers Association
Mineral Wool Insulation Manufacturers Association reaction to the Government's Green Deal announcement
Amber Rudd has announced that the Government will stop any future funding to the Green Deal Finance Company, in effect scrapping the Green Deal and the Government will concentrate on working with the building industry and consumer groups on a new value-for-money approach.
Partner content
Environment
By Glass and Glazing Federation
GGF react to Green Deal funding decision
The Government announced last week that there will be no further funding to the Green Deal Finance Company, in a move to protect taxpayers.
Partner content
Environment
By Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
Coca-Cola Enterprises brings recycling element to its ‘Happiness Pod’ summer tour
In a bid to boost recycling among consumers, Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE) has announced that this summers Coca-Cola Happiness Pod tour will be supported by an awareness initiative developed in partnership with Every Can Counts.
Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
BMAPA Publishes Regional Brochures on Geological Evolution of Local Coastlines
The British Marine Aggregate Producers Association has been working in partnership to produce a series of regional brochures to describe the geological evolution of local coastlines.
Partner content
Environment
By Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
New video highlights benefits of the Professional Development Phase
The benefits of the Professional Development Phase (PDP) and the support it provides for new veterinary graduates have been highlighted in a new video produced by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS).
Partner content
Environment
By Federation of Master Builders
Demise of Green Deal leaves energy efficiency vacuum, warns FMB
The Government must set out a clear vision for what will replace the Green Deal following an announcement that the scheme has effectively been scrapped, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).
Partner content
Environment
By Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
Further departmental budgets will impact on the waste and resource management sector, warns CIWM
Although they were expected, CIWM has expressed concern about the Chancellor's announcement yesterday of further budget cuts of up to 40% to unprotected government departments and the impact these could have on the waste and resource management industry.
Partner content
Environment
By Policy Connect
Policy Connect Announces re-launch of the All-Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group
Partner content
Environment
By Campaign to Protect Rural England
Government move to scrap zero carbon homes plan is huge missed opportunity
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) was extremely disappointed to learn that the Government has decided to scrap plans to make sure all new homes (by 2016) and non-domestic buildings (by 2019) are carbon neutral.
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