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This week marks the start of the grouse shooting season in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Driven grouse shooting consists of a line of “beaters”, blowing whistles and waving flags to chase wild grouse towards a line of guns, waiting to…
This is the full text of the speech delivered by shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman at the SERA rally last night. No plan for a fairer country under a Labour government can be realised without progressive and radical policies on the…
Back British Farming Day this year provides an important opportunity to take stock of the value of British farming to our lives and to the economy and assess the impact of the crucial Brexit negotiation talks on this vital sector. It may…
The government is being taken back to court today by NGO ClientEarth over its latest attempt to produce an effective air quality strategy. A draft third attempt at the air quality plan was published for public consultation just before the…
With nearly 40 million people in Britain living in areas with illegal levels of air pollution, and more than 2,000 schools and nurseries close to roads with damaging levels of diesel fumes, today's first ever National Clean Air Day is a…
As the speech made by the Environment Secretary, Liz Truss, at this year’s Tory conference showed, her focus remains very much on the business side of food and farming, and the need to increase productivity, innovation and exports. This is…
To: The Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Dear Secretaries of State, When the Delegated Legislative Committee met…
Labour have said that David Cameron is "running scared" because he knew he was going to lose the fox hunting vote. The free vote to relax the rules on fox hunting was scheduled for tomorrow. However, the Government faced opposition from…
When you think of the more radical members of the Shadow Cabinet, who do you think of? Maybe Jon Cruddas? Perhaps Jon Trickett? Or maybe no-one at all. But perhaps Maria Eagle is one of the radicals at the Shadow Cabinet table. She’s…
Until three months ago, Owen Paterson was the Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. This is pretty frightening considering the comments he made yesterday. He told a room full of people that climate change forecasts were…
Albert Einstein once said that the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Einstein was a man of science. Sadly, the Tories’ Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is a man who is…
Eric Pickles's half-hearted apology for the Government's botched flood response is too little, too late and is no comfort to the flood-stricken residents in Somerset who have lost their homes and businesses since the start of the New Year…
