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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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Environment Bill: New Independent Environmental Regulator

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 28 October 2020 - Categories: Weekly stories
An image of countryside with rolling green hills at sunset.

The Environment Bill will establish a new independent environmental regulator, the Office for Environmental Protection.

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Maintaining our high food and environmental standards

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 28 October 2020 - Categories: Uncategorized
An image of a countrysides with rolling green hills at sunset.

Response to opinion piece from Friends of the Earth Scotland in the Edinburgh Evening News

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Coverage of the Marine Management Organisation’s call for evidence on new marine protections

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 28 October 2020 - Categories: Weekly stories
Puffin

Today, the Marine Management Organisation launched a call for evidence, seeking views on proposals to better safeguard marine habitats.

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Defra’s response to fly-tipping coverage in today’s Daily Telegraph

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 27 October 2020 - Categories: Weekly stories
A large pile of waste and metal.

Those caught fly-tipping can be given an unlimited fine and face five years in prison.

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Response to Times coverage of Environment Agency enforcement

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 26 October 2020 - Categories: Weekly stories
Head-and-shoulders photograph of Environment Agency Chair, Emma Howard Boyd

The Environment Agency’s Chair, Emma Howard Boyd, has written to the Times in response to its reports on the agency’s approach to environmental regulation.

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Natural Capital Committee progress report and River Trent reroute project

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 26 October 2020 - Categories: Weekly stories

Today's blog looks at Natural Capital Committee’s final response to the 25 Year Environment Plan Progress and The Telegraph's coverage of our scheme creating more meanders in the river to boost wildlife and reduce flooding

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Successful sewage testing underway

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 23 October 2020 - Categories: Uncategorized
Analysis is being done at the Environment Agency's Starcross lab

There is widespread coverage of our announcement today on the government-led project successfully detecting traces of coronavirus in sewage.

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New protection for UK traditional food and drink

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 23 October 2020 - Categories: Weekly stories
New GI logos which will be implemented in the UK

In today's blog we look at coverage on the launch of the new rules and logos to protect British food and drink.

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Getting British turkeys onto our tables this Christmas

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 22 October 2020 - Categories: Weekly stories
Field surrounded by hedgerows

There has been coverage this morning of a warning from the British Poultry Council that 1,000 EU workers are needed to bolster the Christmas turkey supply chain.

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Defra’s response to the WWF call to action against ghost fishing gear

Posted by: paigechaplin, Posted on: 21 October 2020 - Categories: marine, plastic
Seal caught in tangled nylon fishing net.

There is coverage in the Mirror, Telegraph, Independent, Press Association, Manchester Evening News, Business Recorder, Daily Star, Yorkshire Post and Sky News of a warning issued by WWF, that up to a million tonnes of fishing gear is left in …

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