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Farmer ordered to pay more than £6,000 after slurry pollutes stream
A FARMER from Dorset has been ordered to pay more than £6,000 after slurry polluted a stream. Mark Pearson, of Hanford Farm in Hanford near Blandford Forum, appeared before Taunton Magistrates on Wednesday (November 20) after admitting an offence
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Concerns raised about suicide risk among farmers after inheritance tax changes
Concerns have been raised in Parliament about the suicide risk among farmers after changes to inheritance tax on agricultural land were announced in the Budget. Two peers in Westminster said they had heard from elderly farmers that it would be
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Defra’s Steve Reed: farmers ‘Happily wrong’ on tax changes
The Defra minister Steve Reed has told a Westminster committee that the vast majority farmers have nothing to fear over the implications of new inheritance tax changes. The London MP is sticking to the Treasury estimates that only 500 farms per year
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'Asset rich, penny poor has never been so true': Cornish farmers join London protest
Farmers from all over Cornwall travelled to London today to take part in a protest in Westminster against changes to inheritance tax (IHT) announced in the Budget writes Lee Trewhela. Since 1984, agricultural property relief (APR) has allowed
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People power wins out in bid for Cornwall’s largest solar farm despite warnings
PEOPLE power has won out in a contentious bid to build the largest solar farm in Cornwall. Following a protest outside County Hall / Lys Kernow by those opposing the Fairpark solar farm in the Hendra valley near Mitchell, a Cornwall Council planning
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Wiltshire MPs meet with protesting farmers to oppose tax changes
Wiltshire MPs have been meeting with local farmers amid the protests against the changes to inheritance tax announced in Labour’s Budget. The plans will see inherited agricultural assets worth over £1m taxed at 20 per cent from April 2026, which
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'It might wake the government up to our problems': Dorset farmers join London march
Farmers from west Dorset joined thousands of others in London to march to protest changes to inheritance tax. The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) held a massive protest at Whitehall to stand up to the Government’s plans to impose inheritance tax
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Ponies seized after concerns raised over welfare
Seven ponies have been seized to prevent their unnecessary suffering. Officers from Dorset Police Rural Crime Team visited a field in west Dorset alongside volunteers from the RSPCA and the World Horse Welfare Charity following concerns raised
