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Government Urged To Boost Support For Killing "Menace" Grey Squirrels

10 Apr Environment

A group of Tory MPs are calling on the government to increase the grants provided to landowners to trap and cull grey squirrels, and further support other methods of squirrel population control to protect the "precious" native red squirrel.

05 Apr Environment

Tory MP Urges People To "Think Carefully" Before Buying Puppies

21 Mar Environment

Environmental Leaders Are Confident About Labour's Green Agenda

23 Feb Environment

Rural Voters Feel Labour Doesn’t "Get" Them, Says Shadow Environment Secretary

15 Feb Environment

Iceland Boss Accuses Rishi Sunak Of "Neo-Trumpian" Climate Politics

14 Feb Environment

Environment Watchdog Has Financial Interest In Companies It Regulates

11 Feb Environment

Lib Dems Are On Labour's Case To Make Water Companies Not-For-Profit Community Projects

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03 Apr Environment

Thames Water is collapsing – there’s only one way to save it

19 Mar Environment

Air pollution is hitting minority ethnic and low income communities hardest

Ethical and sustainable conservation can’t be achieved with endangered animals in hunters’ cross-hairs

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18 Mar Environment

Ethical and sustainable conservation can’t be achieved with endangered animals in hunters’ cross-hairs

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New Football Law “Could Risk World Cup and Champions League Participation”

17 Apr Culture

Senior Tory Advisers Are "Jumping Before They Are Pushed"

20 Apr Political parties

Scrolls of Doom: Why Gen Z is shunning the church

18 Apr Communities

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27 Feb Environment

The Minette Batters interview: 'I’m fed up with agriculture being deemed low-skilled, low-paid'

Brexit thrust farmers into the centre of political debate for the first time in generations. Minette Batters tells Tali Fraser what it’s been like to be in the eye of the ‘tornado’

25 Feb Environment

Steve Reed interview: 'There’s a definite perception Labour doesn’t get rural voters'

Shadow Defra secretary Steve Reed talks to Sienna Rodgers about Labour’s drive to win back rural voters, how the party plans to show respect for the countryside, and his recipe for the perfect roast potato

23 Feb Environment

Rural Voters Feel Labour Doesn’t "Get" Them, Says Shadow Environment Secretary

Rural voters feel the Labour Party does not "get" them, shadow environment, food and rural affairs secretary Steve Reed has said in an interview with The House magazine.

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28 Jan 2016 Environment

Climate change may have had a huge impact on ancient South American civilisations

Climate change may have brought huge disruptionto ancient South American societies before Europeans arrived in 1492, University of Exeter academics have discovered.

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27 Jan 2016 Environment

AHDB determined to deliver value for money in beef promotion

AHDB Beef Lamb has turned down a 50,000 proposal to fund Ladies in Beef work in the coming financial year.

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27 Jan 2016 Environment

New Chief Executive for the Nuclear Industry Association

Tom Greatrex has been appointed by the Board as the new Chief Executive of the Nuclear Industry Association, the trade body for the civil nuclear industry. He will take up his position from 1 February 2016 and succeeds Keith Parker who has held the position for more than a decade.

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27 Jan 2016 Environment

Steve Lee, Chief Executive of CIWM, to step down at the end of 2016

The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has announced today that its Chief Executive Steve Lee will be stepping down from the post at the end of this year.

26 Jan 2016 Environment

Domestically produced shale gas 'an opportunity we can’t afford to ignore'

Conservative MP for Thirsk and Malton in North Yorkshire, Kevin Hollinrake, writes on the topic of his Westminster Hall debate: 'the potential role of UK manufacturing in development of onshore oil and gas'

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25 Jan 2016 Environment

ETI Chief Executive to give evidence to Energy and Climate Change Committee as part of its inquiry into low carbon network infrastructure

The Energy Technologies Institutes Chief Executive Dr David Clarke will give evidence to the Energy and Climate Change Committee as part of its inquiry into low carbon network infrastructure on Tuesday morning.

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25 Jan 2016 Environment

Over 40 organisations unite for a brighter future for woods and trees

The Woodland Trust is leading 47 cross-sector organisations* from across the UK in a call to celebrate, and secure the future of, our trees and woodland by creating a Charter for Trees, Woods and People.

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21 Jan 2016 Environment

MPA’s Latest Sustainable Development Report Highlights the Industry’s Commitment to Transparency

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published its 2015 Sustainable Development (SD) Report, covering the year 2014.

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20 Jan 2016 Environment

Polish TV debut for Quality Standard Mark lamb

Quality Standard Mark lamb took a starring role in one of Polands most popular TV cookery shows recently.

Energy Bill: Another constitutional battleground?

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19 Jan 2016 Environment

Energy Bill: Another constitutional battleground?

Assessing this week's Energy Bill debate, Dods Monitoring predicts February may see the Lords' willingness to block Government legislation tested again.

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19 Jan 2016 Environment

Bioenergy should be accelerated in the UK to deliver affordable low carbon energy options

A new report Delivering Greenhouse Gas Emission Savings through UK Bioenergy Value Chains from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) reaffirms the potential of bioenergy as a low carbon game changer for the UKs future energy system with its importance as a development priority heightened following recent energy policy announcements.

Bioenergy hailed as ‘low carbon game changer’

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19 Jan 2016 Environment

Bioenergy hailed as ‘low carbon game changer’

Bioenergy has the potential to be a low carbon game changer for the UK’s future energy system, according to a new report from the Energy Technologies Institute.

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15 Jan 2016 Environment

New videos highlight importance of sending clean stock to slaughter

Producers are being reminded about the importance of ensuring livestock are clean when they are presented for slaughter in two videos produced by AHDB Beef Lamb.

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13 Jan 2016 Environment

48 cross-sector organisations unite to call for a UK Charter for Trees, Woods and People

The Woodland Trust is leading 48* organisations in a campaign to celebrate the value of our trees and woods and secure their future by creating a new Charter for Trees, Woods and People.

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13 Jan 2016 Environment

What’s next for nuclear in 2016?

The Nuclear Industry Association sets out the challenges for the UK’s civil nuclear industry in 2016.

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12 Jan 2016 Environment

Flooding in Northern England

Through the month of December 2015 Northern England faced terrible flooding. Communities in Cumbria, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester were faced with the devastating consequences of unprecedented rainfall and inadequate flood defences.

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12 Jan 2016 Environment

New education programme to develop skills in meat supply chain

AHDB Beef Lamb have launched a Meat Education Programme to help further develop skills in the red meat supply chain.

12 Jan 2016 Environment

Ensuring children achieve a happy and healthy adulthood

Baroness Benjamin writes ahead of her oral question today in the House of Lords on: 'ensuring that children grow up fit and healthy' in light of recent obesity reports.

Liquefied petroleum gas can help solve London's air quality crisis

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12 Jan 2016 Environment

Liquefied petroleum gas can help solve London's air quality crisis

Calor Gas' Head of Strategy and Corporate Affairs, Paul Blacklock writes that London cabs switching to LPG can improve London's air quality and calls on London Mayoral candidates to embrace this option.

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11 Jan 2016 Environment

BVA and BVNA response to Defra statement about campaign to protect the title Veterinary Nurse

The British Veterinary Association (BVA) and British Veterinary Nursing Association (BVNA) have been actively supporting the RCVS' campaign to protect the title Veterinary Nurse.

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11 Jan 2016 Environment

Impact of Free Trade Agreements on livestock sector in focus at AHDB Outlook Conference

The impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on the livestock sectors global competitiveness will be in the spotlight next month.

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11 Jan 2016 Environment

Exports vital role for sheep meat sector

A two-pronged approach to developing global market opportunities will remain crucial for the sheep meat sector in 2016 and beyond, according to AHDB Beef Lamb.

New law will help Vets to reunite owners with missing pets

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11 Jan 2016 Environment

New law will help Vets to reunite owners with missing pets

With fewer than 100 days to go until microchipping becomes compulsory for all dogs in England, Scotland and Wales, the British Veterinary Association is urging dog owners to get their pets chipped.

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09 Jan 2016 Environment

RCVS responds to Defra statement on its ‘protect the VN title’ petition

In August 2015, the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) launched a petition asking the Government to protect the title ‘veterinary nurse’ by legally restricting it to registered veterinary nurses (RVNs), therefore making it an offence for unqualified and unregistered laypeople to refer to themselves as a veterinary nurse.