With 2025 now behind us, farmer and NFU Midlands regional chair Jane Bassett reflects on the past 12 months and the farming ...

The Government has watered down its earlier plans after significant protests across the country including in Northumberland ...

Northumbrian farmers have welcomed a G U-turn on its controversial inheritance tax policy announced last month.

The UK government has announced a new animal welfare strategy that aims to ban trail hunting, snares, puppy mills, and cages ...

With 2026 officially here, NFU president, Tom Bradshaw has reflected on 2025 for the farming sector. He said: “As we head ...

Puppy farms, animal snaring and trail hunting - Banbury MP Sean Woodcock has welcomed ‘the biggest animal welfare reforms in ...

Major changes to inheritance tax on agricultural assets have been welcomed in Northumberland – but there have been warnings ...

Peter Lamb, MP for Crawley, has welcomed the recent publication of the Government’s Animal Welfare Strategy for England which sets out plans to end trail hunting, stop the use of snare traps, and bans ...

Ripon's MP has said he is pleased that the Governments has started “listening to farmers voices” after its U-turn on the ...

Under the changes put forward as part of 2024’s budget, inherited agricultural assets worth more than £1m would have to pay inheritance tax at 20 per cent. The Government has now confirmed that the ...

The Oscar winner discusses playing a ruthless CEO (and maybe alien) in 'Bugonia,' her upcoming Miss Piggy movie, and the ...