Environment

Groups launch legal challenges saying Government has broken manifesto promises to end badger cull

Victoria Vyvyan, CLA president, said now is the time for the Government to 'put their money where their mouth is' to back farmers in growing food and improving the environment

Suffolk County Council said Mr Miliband has potentially set a 'dangerous precedent' by giving the solar farm development

PETA says news plant-based campaign has been launched in to bid to get tourists to back local farmers

But farming leaders urge caution and question size, scale and location of trial held in cull area.

The Environment Agency said Neil Dyke had taken suspected samples of pollution from an investigating officer and then drove off in his tractor

"World Heritage Status recognises the global importance of the Flow Country and its peat bogs, not only as an important ecosystem for wildlife but also, through their carbon storage, as a critical defence against the impact of climate change"

The Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs said Fintona farmer Henry McCarney had caused 'extensive' pollution to a tributary of the Eskragh Water from a farm effluent spill

Deputy Leader of Calderdale Council Scott Patient had put forward the motion which has now seen the council transition to offering 100% plant-based and vegan diets

"Intensive farming, with its reliance on artificial nitrogen, vanishing peat and corrupting the soil, will not see many more tomorrows. It is literally unsustainable"