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Customers wanting badger-friendly milk can head to Asda, Waitrose or M&S

12:20pm Friday 24th May 2013

Animal lovers who don’t want to buy milk from farms where badgers have been culled will be able to shop at Asda, Waitrose or M&S, a survey has confirmed.

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Deadline extended for rural broadband bids

4:22pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

Rural communities have just under a month to get their applications in for the final round of the £20m Rural Community Broadband Fund.

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EU to ban DNA-damaging food flavouring agent

4:15pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

The European Commission and European Union member states have decided to ban the flavouring substance 3-acetyl-2,5-dimethylthiophene.

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Don't blame farmers for wildlife losses, says CLA

12:53pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

The CLA said today (23 May) it is wrong to place the blame on farmers for the loss of wildlife - in response to the newly released conservation report State of Nature.

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British wildlife in danger of disappearing, say scientists

12:02pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

UK nature is in trouble – that is the conclusion of a groundbreaking report published by a coalition of leading conservation and research organisations.

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Heath defends badger cull

11:58am Monday 20th May 2013

Agriculture minister David Heath has defended the imminent cull of badgers in Somerset and Gloucestershire.

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Iggle Piggle, the sheep pig

11:46am Monday 20th May 2013

A piglet is growing up with lambs on a farm after being bullied by other pigs.

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Lamb "mutilated" in Nottinghamshire

11:42am Monday 20th May 2013

An animal welfare charity has condemned a "sadistic" mutilation of a three-week-old lamb which was found with his ears cut off.

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Programme of events for RWAS Spring Festival

10:35am Wednesday 15th May 2013

Builth Wells is the place to be this weekend! For the full programme of events click here.

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