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The CLA (Country Land and Business Association) in the North East has repeated its call that rural people who have to buy larger 4x4 vehicles for their work are recognised as essential users and are not penalised by the green levies set to tax the...
[In_Your_Area/North East/Regional News] - [May 7th, 2008]
The CLA (Country Land and Business Association) is again receiving pleas for assistance from desperate Members facing a cash flow crisis owing to delays in receiving their Single Farm Payments for work already completed. After last year's debacle,...
[In_Your_Area/North East/Regional News] - [May 1st, 2008]
In order to celebrate England’s Patron Saint, who is also the Patron Saint of Agricultural Workers, the CLA (Country Land and Business Association) is hosting a St George’s Day breakfast at Broom Mill Farm Shop, West Auckland on the morning of 23rd...
[In_Your_Area/North East/Regional News] - [April 21st, 2008]
- New CLA publication a must read for all who live or work in the countryside - Rural economy experts at the CLA have drawn on over 100 years experience of dealing with rural issues to produce a useful new guide to the rights and responsibilities of...
[In_Your_Area/North East/Regional News] - [April 15th, 2008]
Last weekend, Gordon Brown chaired the Progressive Governance Summit and heard a string of warnings about the rising price of food. The World Bank said that the price of staple foods had risen 80% in the last three years. While this can squeeze the...
[In_Your_Area/North East/Regional News] - [April 8th, 2008]
The CLA has hit out at proposals in the Government’s draft Marine Bill for trying to provide coastal access but ignoring the losses country businesses would face and the increased risk of legal actions against them. The organisation says the plans would...
[In_Your_Area/North East/Regional News] - [April 3rd, 2008]
It has been confirmed that animal health company Intervet has been granted a licence by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate for its vaccine for Bluetongue Virus serotype 8. This means that the vaccine can go into production and should shortly be...
[In_Your_Area/North East/Regional News] - [April 3rd, 2008]
The Chancellor has failed to take any action to stem the haemorrhage of cash flowing out of the countryside and has done nothing to provide rural businesses with a much needed transfusion according to the CLA, the rural economy experts. Henry...
[In_Your_Area/North East/Regional News] - [March 12th, 2008]
The Government should not forget the immense damage last year’s outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease did to the UK sheep industry, particularly in the upland areas -according to the CLA, the rural economy experts. The comments follow the publication of...
[In_Your_Area/North East/Regional News] - [March 12th, 2008]
Landowners who have already made every attempt to keep fly tippers out should not be penalised by costly clear up bills– according to the CLA, the rural economy experts. The CLA says that the Government’s decision to block an attempt to shift the cost...
[In_Your_Area/North East/Regional News] - [Updated - March 12th, 2008]
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