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January 2010

Links and references to articles by the leading UK news providers covering subjects that are of interest to those living and working in rural England and Wales.


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For spiritual uplift, there is nothing like a kestrel on the wing
The most god-forsaken countries in the world often have remarkable birds.
Independent on Sunday - 31 January 2010 - 44


Row threatens plan to save bees
Plans to save Britain's declining bee population have been thrown into disarray after a row broke out between beekeepers and government officials.
Sunday Telegraph - 31 January 2010 - 13


The birdmen of Wormwood Scrubs
Prisoners join the hundreds of thousands of Britons recording sightings at this weekend's annual Big Garden Birdwatch.
Independent on Sunday - 31 January 2010 - 3


Why this man chose farms over funds
Investors, such as fund manager Graham Birch, are being drawn to agriculture by the increasing demand for food...and the tax breaks
The Sunday Times Money - 31 January 2010 - 3


Why we need our wilderness
Government schemes that lay waste to vast swathes of countryside betray a terrifying insensitivity to nature.
Sunday Telegraph - 31 January 2010 - 20


10 special places for birdspotting
Our trees are still bare, but skies and lakes bristle with birdlife. Don’t miss out on soaring red kites and guests such as geese from Siberia.
The Times Weekend - 30 January 2010 - 11


At leisure: It’s all about taking aim at the important things
The chairman of Rugby Estates says that shooting enables him to clinch deals and assist charities.
The Times - 30 January 2010 - 68


Cost of UK flood protection doubles to £1bn a year
Latest data from the Environment Agency shows that more than half a million UK homes are at 'significant' risk of flooding
The Guardian - 30 January 2010 - 16




Taxpayers can use snow as excuse for late tax return
Taxpayers will be allowed to use the bad weather as a legitimate excuse for filing late returns, avoiding a £100 penalty.
Daily Telegraph - 30 January 2010 - 8


















- 25 January 2010


News Roundup Sunday 24 January 2010
Continents’s harsh winter means a boom time for bitterns in UK Record numbers of the elusive wading bird flee northern Europe
The Observer - 25 January 2010 - P 25


Newspaper Roundup Monday 25 January 2010
News Fashion Prince shows the way to lead wool back into the fashion fold Two page spread on HRH mission to rebrand wool as a fashionable green material of choice for clothes and furnishings.
The Times - 25 January 2010 - P 20 & 21


Newspaper Roundup Monday 25 January 2010
News America’s long wait for haggis may be over BSE ban on sheep lungs relaxed so that US Scots can enjoy Haggis
The Independent - 25 January 2010 - P 15


Newspaper Roundup Monday 25 January 2010
News Rest in peace with Fido and Tiddles Permission granted for another joint cemetery as an increasing number of animal lovers opt to be buried with their pets
Daily Mail - 25 January 2010 - P 7


News Roundup Sunday 24 January 2010
News Fears over use of chemicals to castrate pigs Meat from chemically castrated pigs could soon be on sale in Britain despite FSA ban
The Observer - 24 January 2010 - P 14


News Roundup Sunday 24 January 2010
News Fears over use of chemicals to castrate pigs Meat from chemically castrated pigs could soon be on sale in Britain despite FSA ban
The Observer - 24 January 2010 - P 14


News Roundup Sunday 24 January 2010
Letters A danger to the Lakes Wind turbines v nuclear
- 24 January 2010 - P 21


News Roundup Sunday 24 January 2010
Letters A danger to the Lakes Wind turbines v nuclear
Sunday Telegraph - 24 January 2010 - P 21


News Roundup 23 January 2010
News Review & Comment An ill wind blows for Mr Badger Geoffrey Lean on badgers, the Welsh cull and the advantages of TB vaccine for badgers
The Telegraph - 23 January 2010 - P 26










Non-Brit meat test
Shops selling cheap foreign meat as British will be exposed by a new hi-tech test
The Sun - 22 January 2010 - P15














News Roundup 20 January 2010
Country Estate for Chelsea Ace England Captain John Terry wants an £11.5 million country pile
Sun - 20 January 2010 - P 3


News Roundup 20 January 2010
News The flower sprout, a new veg A cross between curly kale and sprouts, the new purple and green veg has been developed by farmers for M&S
Daily Mail - 20 January 2010 - P3


News Roundup 20 January 2010
The Times News Bit of a blow as home turbines are condemned as eco-bling Royal Academy of Engineering says domestic roof turbines are net consumers of electricity because controls draw power when wind is low.
The Times - 20 January 2010 - P 13


Newspaper Round up 19 January 2010
Letters P19 Don’t ban butter It’s junk food not butter that’s the problem (scroll down link)
Daily Telegraph - 19 January 2010 - P 19


Newspaper roundup 19 January 2010
News, Return to the slop bucket Hilary Benn wants food turned into energy not thrown into landfill sites
The Times - 19 January 2010 - P 14


Newspaper Roundup 19 January 2010
Online food shopping set to soar According to Institute Grocery Distribution will nearly double to £7.2bn from 2009 to 2014
The Telegraph - 19 January 2010 - B3


Newspaper Roundup 19 January 2010
News, Record flock of corn buntings Food scarcity may be behind ‘extraordinary’ roost of 700.
Daily Telegraph - 19 January 2010 - P2


Newspaper Roundup: 18 January 2010
Letters, Access to Broadband Call for Government intervention to ensure rural access to Next Generation Access
The Daily Telegraph - 18 January 2010 - P 23


Newspaper Roundup: 18 January 2010
National, Off the couch Ramblers target the young P5 Letters, P 29 Energy feed-in tariff needs a boost Letter from Williams Worsley and others calling for higher feed-in tariffs for small-scale renewable generators http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/18/rnewables-feedin-tariffs-drax-nuclear The independent News, £3.2bn: the total cost of 2007 floods P8 Environment Agency describes it as a national catastrophe Ban butter to save lives P13 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/ban-butter-to-save-lives-says-heart-surgeon-1870920.html World, Rains bring life to Australia’s burning heart P23 Daily Mail Putting a baa on burping sheep P7 Australian scientists say changing microbes in the gut can help cut methane emissions http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1243947/Putting-baa-burping-sheep-battle-climate-change.html Ban butter to save thousands of lives P11 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?searchPhrase=Ban+butter+to+save+thousands+of+lives Sun Butter is battered P 20
The Guardian - 18 January 2010 - P5


Newspaper Roundup: 18 January 2010
Letters, Energy feed-in tariff needs a boost Letter from Williams Worsley and others calling for higher feed-in tariffs for small-scale renewable generators
The Guardian - 18 January 2010 - P 29




Newspaper Roundup: 18 January 2010
National, Off the couch Ramblers target the young
The Guardian - 18 January 2010 - P5


Newspaper Roundup: 18 January 2010
Putting a baa on burping sheep Australian scientists say changing microbes in the gut can help cut methane emissions tml
The Daily Mail - 18 January 2010 - P7


Newspaper Roundup: 18 January 2010
Ban butter to save thousands of lives
The Dily Mail - 18 January 2010 - P11


The Times
Wild Notebook Wanted untidy farmers Simon Barnes
- 18 January 2010 - P22


Britain’s solution to threat of rising sea levels: offshore towns built on redundant oil rigs
Decommissioned North Sea oil platforms should be towed to the water-fronts of coastal cities at risk of flooding and converted into homes, shops and universities, protected from rising sea levels, a study recommends.
The Times - 15 January 2010 - 37


Car giants ‘give false hopes of electric or hydrogen vehicles’
Car companies are raising false hopes of emission-free motoring in order to continue profiting from large, fuel hungry vehicles, according to a study.
The Times - 15 January 2010 - 37


Climate alert after huge rise in Arctic methane emissions
Scientists have recorded a massive spike in the amount of a powerful greenhouse gas seeping from Artic permafrost, in a discovery that highlights the risks of a climate tipping point.
The Guardian - 15 January 2010 - 19


Did the police have to shoot Bambi?
A young deer named Bambi has been shot by police after it wandered into a garden. The doe was killed over fears it could endanger motorists if it ran on to a nearby main road. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243191/The-real-life-tragedy-deer-called-Bambi-Doe-shot-police-wandering-garden.html#ixzz0chNjmcrz
Daily Mail - 15 January 2010 - 7


Hull of a sea rise
Rising sea levels could see Portsmouth abandoned to the sea and Hull become an island, a climate change report claims today.
The Sun - 15 January 2010 - 9


The big thaw begins – now the danger is from flash flooding
Britain's four week freeze was ending yesterday as snow and ice started to melt in many areas.
The Times - 15 January 2010 - 41


Voodoo wasps that could save the world
Genetic breakthrough could enable scientists to unleash armies of insects on deadly crop pests
The Independent - 15 January 2010 - 3


Newspaper Roundup: Wednesday 13 January 2010
News, Barclay twins’ vines bring bouquet of Bordeaux to Sark Barclay brothers plant vineyard to produce for Ritz
The Times - 13 January 2010 - P 25


Newspaper Roundup: Wednesday 13 January 2010
News, Icy winters raise sales of wood fuel stoves Aga says sales have risen by 300% in past two years.
The Telegraph - 13 January 2010 - P 17


Newspaper Roundup: Wednesday 13 January 2010
Markets, Grain prices dip after forecast for record crops Grain and oilseed prices dip
The Financial Times - 13 January 2010 - P 34


Newspaper Roundup: Tuesday 12 January 2010
Life, Cows feel the wind of climate change McDonalds studying livestock methane emissions
Independent - 12 January 2010 - P 6


Newspaper Roundup: Tuesday 12 January 2010
Life, Humane slaughterhouse investigation
Daily Mail - 12 January 2010 - P 34&35


Newspaper Roundup: Tuesday 12 January 2010
Life, Cows feel the wind of climate change McDonalds studying livestock methane emissions(Scroll down the page!)
Independent - 12 January 2010 - P 6



News, Panic buying after warning of food prices Retailers warn of higher prices for food as farmers struggle to harvest vegetables. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6965043/Snow-threat-to-Britains-vegetable-crop.html News, Scientists to plant more GM crops GM potatoes among GM trials as Government increases support.
The Telegraph - 11 January 2010 - P 6& 7



News, First grit, then gas – now it’s vegetables in short supply
The Independent - 11 January 2010 - P 6&7.


Newspaper Round Up: Monday 11 January 2010
Letters, GM upsets blueprints David Jackson responds to Clive Aslet’s defence of GM crops.
The Times - 11 January 2010 - P 25


Debate: Wet dogs, log fires, a joint in the Aga and the village pub a tipsy stroll away. Real country life? No, just this townie’s oh-so-foolish fantasy
Over the past five years alone, we're told this week, almost 2.4 million urban Britons have moved to the countryside, where former city-dwellers now make up seven out of ten of the rural population. Oh, how often I've been tempted to up-sticks and join them....
Daily Mail - 8 January 2010 - P14


New windfarms could power half Britain’s homes, but jobs boost could go overseas
Nine giant new wind farms in the seas around Britain will be announced today, but few of the 6,000 turbines needed are likely to be built here. Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, will say that the world’s biggest expansion of offshore wind power, costing £75 billion, will create 70,000 jobs in Britain by 2020.
The Times - 8 January 2010 - P18


Secretive food firms risk public backlash
The secretive attitude of food companies towards nanotechnology research risks starting a consumer backlash against products that could improve health and reduce waste, a parliamentary inquiry has found.
The Times - 8 January 2010 - P32


Super-fast broadband for the whole country is vital to future prosperity
Rural communities particularly suffer at such times. But imagine if you could hold a consultation with your GP over the internet in real time, or easily access your office computer network from home, or hold two-way video conferences. These are the very real possibilities that super-fast broadband could offer within just a few short years.
Daily Telegraph - 8 January 2010 - P20


The compost brands that won’t grow on you
For gardeners, it is one of the most frustrating experiences. After lovingly planting and watering your seeds, you impatiently wait for them to sprout. And then they don’t. But it may not be your fault, according to consumer watchdog Which?. You may simply have bought the wrong compost. It found a huge disparity in the quality of shop-bought composts, with some major labels producing a germination rate of less than 40 per cent.
Daily Mail - 8 January 2010 - P20


The Milk Marketing Board’s abolition did not help us dairy farmers
Thousands of farmers were ruined by Mrs Thatcher and rising supermarket power
The Guardian - 8 January 2010 - P33


The supermarkets must be brought to heel
One of the most striking observations made by Peter Kendall, the president of the National Farmers' Union, at the Oxford Farming Conference this week was that the supermarkets have been allowed to create "a climate of fear" in the countryside, with their "abuse of retail power". He was quite right – but given that most of his members are so terrified of their giant business partners that they won't speak about the issue on the record, it was rather a robust attitude to express.
Daily Telegraph - 8 January 2010 - P18


Newspaper Round-up: Thursday, 7 January 2010
Survey: 70 per cent of rural Britons are city exiles NFU Mutual looks at why former city dwellers move to countryside. News: Living the good life P 21 Couple engage with farming community to buy meat and grow own veg. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1241044/Family-saves-6-000-food-just-year-vowing-avoid-supermarkets.html
Daily Mail - 7 January 2010 - P 7


Bacon and eggs ‘can boost baby’s brain’
Report on the benefits of traditional English breakfast for the young
Daily Telegraph - 6 January 2010 - 9


Edited extract of Benn’s speech
Detail of Hilary Benn's speech at the 2010 Oxford Farming Conference
The Independent - 6 January 2010 - 33


Keep slop bucket in kitchen and potential for GM
A report on Secretary of State Hilary Benn's speech at the Oxford Farming Conference
Daily Mail - 6 January 2010 - 4




Return of the Sea Eagles a PR Stunt
Report on Natural England's plans to 're-introduce' sea eagles to East Anglia
Daily Telegraph - 6 January 2010 - 7


Robin Page on Food 2030
A comment piece on Defra's Food 2030 paper
Daily Mail - 6 January 2010 - 14


Belching cows can help to rescue our planet
Graham Harvey argues that the prodigious methane output of cattle is bad for the environment, but grazing on grass will soak up carbon.
The Times - 4 January 2010 - P26


Eat less red meat to help the planet, says minister
The paper reports that Secretary of State Hilary Benn will outline his vision for the future of food and farming at a conference in Oxford.
Daily Mail - 4 January 2010 - P13




Why the sea eagle has no right to land here
Comment piece by Libby Purves on why re-introducing sea eagles to East Anglia is a bad idea
The Times - 4 January 2010 - P23


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