Victoria Atkins says announcement to raise tax threshold from £1m to £2.5m days before Christmas ‘seems very odd’ UK politics live – latest updates Ministers “snuck out” the announcement that they had decided to U-turn on inheritance tax for farmers, the Conservatives have said
Seaweed has become a key cash crop as climate change and industrial trawling test the resilient culture of the semi-nomadic Vezo people Along Madagascar’s south-west coast, the Vezo people, who have fished the Mozambique Channel for countless generations, are defined by a way
Scientists working for government breed biological control agents in lab to take on species choking native wildlife Crayfish, weevils and fungi are being released into the environment in order to tackle invasive species across Britain. Scientists working for the government have
New protections for hares, and more humane conditions on farms, should be welcomed by all Looking after wildlife and improving the lives of farm animals and pets are the related but distinct aims of the government’s new animal welfare strategy for England. Its launch is timely:
Work under way to refloat boats on emptied waterway after earthwork more than 200 years old fails The dramatic breach of a canal in the early hours of Monday, which sent two narrowboats tumbling into a hole and left others stranded , was caused by the collapse of an artificial
U-turn lifts limit from £1m to £2.5m after protests and warnings that family farms were at risk Ministers will increase the threshold for taxing inherited farmland from £1m to £2.5m after months of pressure from campaigners and MPs representing rural areas. In a statement
