The European Union is preparing plans to allow pig remains to be used to feed poultry. The practice – banned in Europe after the BSE crisis 10 years ago – would save farmers millions of pounds as prices of cereal … Continue reading
The National Trust welcomes the EFRA Select Committee’s conclusions that a multi-faceted approach should be adopted to tackle cattle TB. We support the strategic approach proposed to include: • more frequent cattle testing, with more frequent and targeted combined use … Continue reading
They have dodged bullets and bombs and the other associated dangers of a life lived in Baghdad. One was smuggled over the border from Iraq to Kuwait – the taxi narrowly avoiding being taken out by an improvised explosive device … Continue reading
There is no reason why a race of one-and-a-quarter miles should be a death sentence for a horse, as it was on Saturday for the 3-year-old filly, Eight Belles. She was euthanized after breaking both front ankles immediately after coming … Continue reading
The Uist Hedgehog Rescue (UHR) coalition is celebrating the relocation over one thousand hedgehogs from the Uists and their release into new territories on the mainland. The coalition has been relocating hedgehogs from the Outer Hebridean islands every year since … Continue reading
I had not planned to write about this. After all, can there be anything left to say? Haven’t we all become immune to this “rite of spring” that seems to many as much associated with the season as the delicate … Continue reading
