- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- GPs 'overpaid for ghost patients'
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
- Tributes to 'jolly jester' Carson
- 'MP' held after Commons disturbance
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
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- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
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Environment
Farmers on alert over livestock disease
Farmers are growing increasingly concerned by the spread of a damaging virus which has been identified in farm animals across the south of the country.
Farmers ‘to be given greater input into policy’
FARMERS are to be given vastly increased input into policy formation as part of a Government programme to cut red tape, with Ministers pledging to allow food producers to be “farmers, not form-fillers”.
Hooked on winning at the seaside
How to catch your fish and cook it. Competitor Stewart Calligan previews the annual European beach championship
‘Strike’ protest over sheep tagging system
TRADING Standards officers for at least two major livestock areas are refusing to help run the halfway-house system of computerised sheep movement recordings which Defra hoped to get off the ground while it tries to organise a national database for automatic tracking of all sheep individually.
Farming
Pollution from North America ‘destroying wheat’
MAN-MADE air pollution from North America causes Europe to lose 1.2 million tonnes of wheat a year, a new study has found.
Sending out an SOS for more Yorkshire enterprise
A national conference will seek to inspire local people to breathe new life into their village communities. Chris Berry reports on what has been achieved so far.
Farm Of The Week: Trainer keeps producing the top dogs
PARKS Farm produces a few sheep and cattle and also, incidentally, a few racehorses. But most importantly, dogs.
Young farmers suffer as councils rake in millions
Council chiefs across the country have come under fire after it was revealed they have made hundreds of millions of pounds by selling off land traditionally reserved for new farmers.
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GOVERNMENTS could and should spend some farm support money on subsidising better animal welfare, government advisers have said.
Equestrian Post
Farriers come to the aid of Pyramid Horses
A TEAM of farriers from the United Kingdom is heading out to Egypt next month to work with neglected horses and ponies that are desperately in need of care.
Fistful of dollars for British riders in American Festival
BRITISH riders continue to make their presence felt in the top classes at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida.
Recalling happy days in the saddle
A big date is to be celebrated shortly by one of Yorkshire’s venerable branches of the Pony Club. Sarah Todd reports.
Bartle has foot in two camps for Olympics
THIS summer’s London Olympic Games will be a time of mixed emotions for Yorkshireman Chris Bartle.
Largest Shire Horse show set for big influx of entrants
THE highlight of the year for heavy horse enthusiasts, the Shire Horse Society’s Spring Show, is being held at the East of England Showground next month.
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Thursday 23 February 2012
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