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| Aug 4, 2026 | England, Wales had driest July on record: Met Office | LONDON: England and Wales both experienced the "driest July on record", the UK Met Office weather agency said Monday (Aug 3), based on provisional figures.
The month of July was also the "sunniest month ever observed" in... |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Here’s how a levy on assets could work, just don’t call it a wealth tax | Debate around wealth taxes have become a meme, far too ideological and not technocratic enough. But there is a way to raise a levy on assets without distorting the economy, says Tim Sarson
Last week I was scanning the list of topics I’d wri... |
| Feb 9, 2026 | Landowners hit as government pushes through 5G rent cuts | Mobile network operators are set to cut rents on around 15,000 existing phone masts from April, City AM understands, dragging decades-old agreements into a new regime that has already allowed payments to landowners to be cut by up to 90 per... |
| Dec 24, 2025 | Lawyers warn farmers: Labour’s U-turn on IHT threshold “not an all-clear” | Lawyers warned that, despite Labour’s U-turn on the inheritance tax relief threshold for farms, many agricultural families may still be impacted, and significant tax burdens may remain for some estates.
In a whiplash U-turn, the Labour gove... |
| Nov 16, 2025 | Treasury ‘buries’ farming report until after Budget in inheritance tax blow | A government-commissioned review that shows the financial pressures on the farming industry has been “buried” by the Treasury until after the Autumn Budget, Whitehall sources claim.
The review which was carried out by a former president of ... |
| Sep 7, 2025 | M&S calls for rethink on inheritance tax amid government reshuffle | M&S have called on new environment secretary Emma Reynolds to back British farmers by rethinking proposed changes to inheritance tax relief for farmers.
The decision to end a decades-old inheritance tax relief – known as Agricultural Pr... |
| Sep 1, 2025 | UK Gov Launches Two New AgriTech Funds | Farmers and growers across the UK will benefit from £12.6 million in new funding, with two fresh competitions backing research and development in agritech.
Backed through two new Farming Innovation Programme competitions – a ‘Dragons Den fo... |
| Aug 14, 2025 | Inheritance tax crackdown will not spark family farm firesale, study finds | Most farmers will be able to shoulder the inheritance tax bill foisted on them by the Treasury at last autumn’s Budget without having to sell their family farm, according to a fresh analysis which also proposed new ways the reforms could be... |
| Jul 25, 2025 | Record number of farms shut after inheritance tax grab | A record number of farms closed in the year after the government announced it was ending a carve out that allowed farmers to pass down their estates without paying inheritance tax.
According to official data, 6,365 agriculture, forestry and... |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Steel industry demands rapid resolution to tariff uncertainty | Car makers and aerospace manufacturers have welcomed the UK-US trade deal that came into force on Monday, but steelmakers have warned that delays to tariffs on their exports coming down are “paralysing” their industry.
The UK is the only co... |
| Jun 27, 2025 | London’s 5G rollout is being strangled by a failed legal model | London’s position at the bottom of Europe’s 5G performance rankings is the direct result of a failed telecoms access policy that has deterred investment, triggered mass litigation, and paralysed rollout.
The Electronic Communications Code (... |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Baroness Minette Batters announced as a keynote speaker for the 2025 REAP Agri-Tech Conference | Fresh from completing the Farm Profitability Review, former NFU President and Cross Bench Peer, Minette Batters, will deliver a keynote address to Agri-TechE’s REAP Conference on November 4th at the KingsGate Centre, Peterborough.
Agri-Tech... |
| Jun 5, 2025 | Labour’s not for turning but the Inheritance Tax battle will rumble on | Civil servants and politicians could not believe their eyes. As the hoarse grumble of diesel motors thundered along Whitehall, a fleet of tractors descended onto Parliament Square, heralded by a cacophony of honks to the tune of Aqua’s Barb... |
| May 20, 2025 | Navigating the Crossroads: UK-EU Trade Talks and the Future of Farming | The air is thick with anticipation as the UK and EU stand on the brink of a significant trade agreement. Negotiations are in their final hours, a race against time that feels like a ticking clock in a suspenseful thriller. Sir Keir Starmer,... |
| May 16, 2025 | MPs demand changes to inheritance tax raid on farms | Plans to levy inheritance tax on farmland threaten the future of British agriculture and should be paused while its ill effects are properly examined, an influential committee of MPs has said.
In a damning report on the state of British far... |
| Mar 1, 2025 | UK extends seasonal worker visa scheme for five more years to address agricultural labor shortage | The UK government has confirmed an extension of its Seasonal Worker Visa Scheme for another five years, enabling farmers and food producers to continue hiring foreign workers on short-term contracts.
The scheme was set to end in 2021, but r... |
| Nov 20, 2024 | Farmers Rally Against Inheritance Tax Changes: A Battle for the Future of Agriculture | On a dreary November day, British farmers transformed the streets of London into a sea of tractors and banners. The message was clear: they are fighting for their livelihoods. The government’s proposed changes to inheritance tax rules have ... |
| Nov 19, 2024 | Farmers descend on London to overturn inheritance tax change | LONDON: British farmers massed in London on Tuesday (Nov 19) for protests against controversial government plans to change inheritance tax rules for land ownership, which they claim threatens to break up the sector and hit food production.
... |
| Jul 9, 2024 | NatWest Gives In to Pressure from Livestock Lobby, Waters Down Advice to Eat Less Meat & Dairy | 6 Mins Read NatWest has scaled back its dietary recommendations to users of its banking app after months of lobbying pressure from livestock farmers.
UK bank NatWest has made changes to the carbon footprint tracker on its app, which previou... |
| May 15, 2024 | Industry Execs & UK Government Form ‘Resilience Group’ to Discuss Climate Risks to Food Supply | 4 Mins Read In the UK, food industry heads and the government have agreed to meet for a series of discussions about the impact of the climate crisis on the food supply chain.
As the climate crisis threatens crops, farmers and the food suppl... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Let’s be honest, the UK will never grow all its own food – nor should it | By scaremongering about food security and promising to protect farmers in new trade deals, the Prime Minister is simply pandering to vested interests, says Matthew Lesh
Rishi Sunak expressed concern about the UK’s lack of self-sufficiency i... |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Diet & Nutrition: Should You Become An Ultra-Flexitarian? | 5 Mins Read
By: Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science, UCL and the Natural History Museum of Denmark
There’s no denying that what we eat is intrinsically linked to the climate crisis. Is the an Ultra-Flexitarian diet the solution t... |
| Jun 6, 2022 | Virgin Money launches $251m Agri E Fund in a bid to help UK farmers hit net zero | Virgin Money, the UK-based digital financial services provider under Virgin Group, has launched a £200 million ($251 million) Agri E Fund, the first of its kind dedicated to supporting UK farmers with green loans.
Loans it disburses should ... |
| Oct 8, 2021 | Culling 150,000 healthy pigs shouldn’t ‘just happen’ in a functioning food system, Mr Johnson | Last week, the UK’s National Pig Association (NPA) warned that as many as 150,000 healthy pigs could be killed and disposed of amid a chronic shortage of slaughterhouse workers and heavy goods vehicle drivers in the country.
The UK has seen... |
| Sep 5, 2019 | Green Futures: Biodiversity | Green Futures: Biodiversity
05-09-2019
It is unmistakable that we are living in a climate and biodiversity emergency. Most people agree that it is past the time for half-measures. If we are going to tackle the climate emergency, we need to ... |
| Apr 5, 2019 | Calling in the AgriTech cavalry: AgriTech and food supply | Calling in the AgriTech cavalry: AgriTech and food supply
05-04-2019
Food supply is one of the biggest issues of our time. With limited natural resources, growing populations and climate change pressing down, the problem of feeding ourselve... |
| Feb 18, 2019 | World’s first Centre for Doctoral Training in agri-food robotics is announced | World’s first Centre for Doctoral Training in agri-food robotics is announced
18-02-2019
A new advanced training centre in agri-food robotics will create the largest ever cohort of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) specialists for the g... |
| Nov 8, 2018 | Farm Gets Death Threats Over 'Choose Your Own Christmas Turkey' Promotion | According to the most recent statistics from the British Turkey Information Service, an estimated 10 million turkeys will spend the holidays on someone’s dinner table, and slightly more than three quarters of families in the United Kingdom ... |
| Apr 3, 2018 | From Rotting Crops to Migrant Worker Shortages, Times are Hard Down On the Farm That Brexit Built | These days, the headquarters of G’s Fresh — a large farming complex on the outskirts of Ely, East Cambridgeshire — is oddly quiet. In the office building, administrative staff work in open-plan spaces and walk through bluish-carpeted corrid... |
| Jun 13, 2017 | UK consumers want ‘country of origin’ labels for online products | About four in five adults in the UK think that online food retailers should give the same kind of information about the product’s country of origin on the website as there can be found on food packaging in supermarkets shelves.
A survey com... |
| May 4, 2017 | British Supermarket Bans All Foreign Meat as Brexit Proceeds | As the British Isles breaks it economic ties within the Eurozone, one supermarket chain is going a step further to ensure the most British aisles possible (pun intended, apologies).
As The Independent reports, food retailer Co-op Food, whic... |
