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Government Urged To Boost Support For Killing 'Menace' Grey Squirrels
Government Urged To Boost Support For Killing "Menace" Grey Squirrels
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.
Tory MP Urges People To 'Think Carefully' Before Buying Puppies
Environment
Tory MP Urges People To "Think Carefully" Before Buying Puppies
Environmental Leaders Are Confident About Labour's Green Agenda
Environment
Environmental Leaders Are Confident About Labour's Green Agenda
Rural Voters Feel Labour Doesn’t 'Get' Them, Says Shadow Environment Secretary
Environment
Rural Voters Feel Labour Doesn’t "Get" Them, Says Shadow Environment Secretary
Iceland Boss Accuses Rishi Sunak Of 'Neo-Trumpian' Climate Politics
Environment
Iceland Boss Accuses Rishi Sunak Of "Neo-Trumpian" Climate Politics
Environment Watchdog Has Financial Interest In Companies It Regulates
Environment
Environment Watchdog Has Financial Interest In Companies It Regulates
Lib Dems Are On Labour's Case To Make Water Companies Not-For-Profit Community Projects
Environment
Lib Dems Are On Labour's Case To Make Water Companies Not-For-Profit Community Projects
The House Live
Thames Water is collapsing – there’s only one way to save it
Environment
By Barry Gardiner MP
Thames Water is collapsing – there’s only one way to save it
Air pollution is hitting minority ethnic and low income communities hardest
Environment
By L'Myah Sherae and Lord Woolley
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 Partner content
Environment
By Humane Society International UK
Ethical and sustainable conservation can’t be achieved with endangered animals in hunters’ cross-hairs
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Politicians Running The London Marathon Say It Makes Them 'Better MPs'
Politicians Running The London Marathon Say It Makes Them "Better MPs"
Health
Britain cannot stay silent on atrocities in DRC to protect our Rwanda deal
Britain cannot stay silent on atrocities in DRC to protect our Rwanda deal
By Daniel Kawczynski MP
Foreign affairs
MPs And Peers Brace To Sit Until Early Hours With Rwanda Bill
MPs And Peers Brace To Sit Until Early Hours With Rwanda Bill
Home affairs
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The Minette Batters interview: 'I’m fed up with agriculture being deemed low-skilled, low-paid'
Environment
By Tali Fraser
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’
Steve Reed interview: 'There’s a definite perception Labour doesn’t get rural voters'
Environment
By Sienna Rodgers
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
Rural Voters Feel Labour Doesn’t 'Get' Them, Says Shadow Environment Secretary
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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Partner content
Environment
By Policy Connect
Cutting costs and saving resources is an issue now relevant to every link in the supply chain reports the All-Party Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group
The All-Party Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group (APSRG) is launching its latest publication Link to Link: Driving Resource Efficiency across Supply Chains on 9th February in Parliament.
Partner content
Environment
By Calor Gas
Calor calls for LPG support to save lives in London
It is disgraceful that the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) hourly legal limit for the whole of 2016, has already been breached, just 8 days into the New Year, as reported by Clean Air in London.
Partner content
Environment
By Calor Gas
Christina Rees MP Visits Calor Gas Neath
Neath MP Christina Rees has visited her local Calor Gas depot in Aberdulais, to discover how the company has been preparing for winter and how it intends to keep its customers warm in the face of extreme weather conditions.
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
BVA welcomes Defra capital spend on laboratory improvements

Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss announced £65 million capital spend earmarked for laboratory improvements and upgrading the bio-containment facilities at Weybridge. Commenting, BVA President Sean Wensley said:
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
New appointment bolsters AHDB Beef Lamb’s communications team
The communication of AHDB Beef Lambs research and development and knowledge exchange activity has been given a boost thanks to the appointment of a new technical communications officer.
Partner content
Environment
By Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
CIWM kick-starts 2016 with a year-long waste crime campaign
With the financial and environmental cost of waste crime continuing to escalate, CIWM has launched a co-ordinated 12 month campaign with the announcement today that it will be contributing almost 50k to a major initiative designed to raise business awareness of Duty of Care.
Gov’t backed UK 'fair trade' brand will support UK farmers
Environment
By Derek Thomas MP
Gov’t backed UK 'fair trade' brand will support UK farmers
Derek Thomas MP calls for the Government to provide clear information to help consumers support British farmers.
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
Think chips for your New Year’s Resolution, urge vets
With less than 100 days to go until microchipping becomes compulsory for all dogs in England, Scotland and Wales (6 April), the British Veterinary Association (BVA) are urging dog owners to make it a New Years Resolution to get their canine companions chipped.
Partner content
Environment
By Calor Gas
Converting London Black Cabs to LPGAutogas will deliver air quality benefits as well as saving cabbies money
Air pollution is responsible for the deaths of an estimated 29,000 people each year in the UK, with the majority of harmful emissions stemming from road transport.
Partner content
Environment
By Calor Gas
LPG autogas – a practical and affordable solution to the UK’s air quality crisis
Air pollution is responsible for the deaths of an estimated 29,000 people each year in the UK, with the majority of harmful emissions stemming from road transport.
Partner content
Environment
By Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
RCVS Council member made Commander of the Order of the British Empire
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) is congratulating RCVS Council member and Chief Veterinary Officer Professor Nigel Gibbens, who has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Years Honours list for 2016.
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
BVA President congratulates UK’s CVO and BVA member Nigel Gibbens on CBE
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) sent warm congratulations today (31 December) to the UKs Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) and BVA member, Nigel Gibbens, on being awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the veterinary profession and animal welfare.
Is protecting UK wildlife important to the Government or not? Partner content
Environment
By World Animal Protection
Is protecting UK wildlife important to the Government or not?
Wildlife crime is crime, and the UK public want our wildlife protected from it, says World Animal Protection .
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
Lamb retail sales remain healthy
Sales of lamb in October and November were up eight per cent by volume, according to the latest 12-week figures.
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
British Veterinary Association urges innovation in capturing disease data
9 in 10 production animal vets now conduct their own post-mortems (PMs) following the closure of some laboratories in the APHA surveillance network, reveal figures from the British Veterinary Associations (BVA) Voice of the Veterinary Profession survey published today, prompting BVA to call for innovation in capturing PM data.
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
Warm weather means Santa Claus may have to mow his lawn this Christmas* (*if he lived in the UK)
Forget presents and turkey, homeowners in the UK are more likely than ever to be mowing their lawn this Christmas according to records added to the Woodland Trusts Natures Calendar survey.
Partner content
Environment
By NOAH
Animal medicines sector responds to Lord O’Neill on Antimicrobials in Agriculture Report
The UK, European and global animal medicines sector associations have joined forces to respond to Lord ONeills recent Report on Antimicrobials in Agriculture, through a letter and expert critique of his Report.
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
BVA welcomes Defra consultation on dog breeding
Responding to the announcement of a Defra consultation on dog breeding license controls on 20 December 2015, British Veterinary Association President Sean Wensley said:
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
Rodent control hub to help with new rules
A free, self-study training course on rodent control is now available for farmers via an industry online hub, Rodent Control on Farms.
COP21 has laid the foundation for the future
Environment
By Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
COP21 has laid the foundation for the future
Lib Dem peer Baroness Miller writes following the COP21 talks and says the Government 'now has the chance to build the UK into a world leading low carbon nation'.
Partner content
Environment
By Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
Waste and resource management training remains a priority across a range of sectors
A 2015 training, education and development survey carried out by CIWM Enterprises has shown that businesses across a range of sectors are committed to investing in sustainability, resources and waste training.
Partner content
Environment
By Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
College makes Christmas donation to international veterinary charity
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has made a 3,000 donation to the international animal welfare and veterinary care charity Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS).
Partner content
Environment
By Association of British Insurers
Insurers on hand for hundreds of traumatised families in the wake of Storm Desmond
In the wake of Storm Desmond, insurers have already helped almost 1,500 families get into alternative accommodation and have so far made emergency payments totalling 2.6m, initial analysis from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) shows today.
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
BVA and PVS welcome the announcement that from today porcine epidemic diarrhoea is a notifiable disease in England
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) and the Pig Veterinary Society (PVS) have welcomed the announcement that from today (18 December) porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED) is a notifiable disease in England.
EventsAll
After the election: what can the civil service expect from a new administration?
2024
Online
After the election: what can the civil service expect from a new administration?
The road to proactive government
2024
Online
The road to proactive government
Practical AI: Closing the gap between possibility and reality
2024
Online
Practical AI: Closing the gap between possibility and reality
Net Zero Week 2024
2024
Online
Net Zero Week 2024