Scotland

Millers of Speyside, based in Grantown on Spey, will close for 14 days

The relationship between NFU Scotland and the Scottish Conservative Party has plunged to a new low this week, following a very public spat between recently-elected party leader Douglas Ross MP and the union’s head of policy.

Scotland’s Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing believes his repeated calls for a sheep compensation scheme to mitigate the impact of Brexit have been heeded and has welcomed UK Government confirmation that work on such a sch

So it is now official, the UK is in recession as a result of two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

The flytipping scourge has continued with Davy Shanks faced with the cleanup of two tonnes of rotting meat

The Lynx UK Trust has singled out a forest near Loch Lomond, Scotland as a ‘lynx paradise’.

IAAS has warned an increase in private sales could leave farmers open to unfair prices and payment dodgers

Dominic Cummings is the only man who believes a no-deal Brexit in the middle of a pandemic is a good idea, says Hywel Davies, who is a partner at Cyfreithwyr Llys Cennen Solicitors and helps his parents run the Aman flock of pedigree Texel sheep, the 2018 Champion Flock of Wales.

All four nations need to work together as partners to ensure the UK internal market continues to function, and devolution is respected, says Ben Lake, MP for Ceredigion and Plaid Cymru’s agriculture spokesman in Westminster.

The union is the cornerstone of the UK’s prosperity and influence, and keeping it together will be vital for the future prosperity of our farmers, says Robert Largan, MP for High Peak.