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Inaccurate reporting on foot and mouth disease controls

Inaccurate reporting on foot and mouth disease controls

There has been inaccurate media coverage regarding foot and mouth disease (FMD) controls with reports that it took six or seven days for controls on commercial imports to take effect and “allowed disease to enter the country.”

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Coverage of the Chief Medical Officer’s air pollution annual report

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 8 December 2022 - Categories: Weekly stories

Today we are looking at media coverage of the Chief Medical Officer’s annual report on air pollution.

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Food supply and food security

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 6 December 2022 - Categories: Weekly stories

Today we are looking at media coverage of NFU comments on food supply and security.

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UK pushes for ambitious and effective global plastic treaty at first negotiations meeting

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 5 December 2022 - Categories: plastic

Today we are looking at media coverage of the UK attending the first Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) meeting to negotiate the new legally binding treaty on plastic pollution that was held in Uruguay.

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National Tree Week in the media

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 5 December 2022 - Categories: Weekly stories
People planting trees

Today we are looking at media coverage of our National Tree Week announcements.

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Water company fines to be invested back into the environment

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 30 November 2022 - Categories: water, Weekly stories

Under new plans, money from water company fines will be invested directly back into environmental and water quality improvement projects.

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Welsh Leeks protection in the media

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 30 November 2022 - Categories: Weekly stories

Today we are looking at our new protection for Welsh Leeks.

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Daily Express coverage of £20 million funding for woodlands

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 28 November 2022 - Categories: Weekly stories
Tree saplings

Today we are looking at media coverage of new Government funding for woodlands.

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Times coverage of bathing water pollution inspections

Posted by: defrablogs, Posted on: 26 November 2022 - Categories: Environment Agency, Pollution, water
A person standing knee deep in the sea looking out into the ocean

Today we are looking at coverage in the Times of the Environment Agency’s inspections of bathing water pollution incidents.

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Boost for UK fishing industry with new infrastructure projects

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 25 November 2022 - Categories: Weekly stories

There has been a widespread of coverage across the UK following our announcement that £20 million of funding has been awarded to winning seafood projects.

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Storm overflow discharges in the media

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 24 November 2022 - Categories: Weekly stories

This government wants clean and safe rivers, lakes and seas, and we have been clear that we will hold water companies to account if they do not comply with our environmental regulations.

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