Organic Food, Drink, Holidays, Cooking and Lifestyle Information for Wales
A cattle farmer from Flintshire is beginning a 46-week jail sentence for flouting TB regulations.
Mark Payne, 45, from Brynford, near Holywell, admitting moving animals illegally without pre-movement testing.
The judge at Mold Crown Court said Payne had ignored trading standards officials’ instructions and had a history of doing so.
Animal health officials said it should be a warning to farmers to obey rules to stop the disease spreading.
The Welsh Government has been accused of “misleading” the Welsh public on the extent of air pollution in Wales after figures appeared to contradict its claim the situation was improving.
Environmental campaigners said that while the Welsh Government claimed air quality in Wales was “continuing to improve”, the actual levels of several potentially harmful pollutants were rising.
Plans for a controversial “super dairy” with 1,000 cows at a farm have been rejected by Powys councillors.
The vote is the latest twist in the debate about the dairy near Welshpool, which councillors had backed last year.
A protest was held outside the meeting against how livestock will be kept inside for 250 days of the year.
A list of farmers markets on today in Wales:
A range of nurseries selling unusual plants and crafts Sun 14 Oct 2012, 10:30 to 17:30.
Hergest Croft Gardens, Kington, Herefordshire, HR5 3EG
Denbigh Country Market – Held every Friday between 8.30 – 12pm at Denbigh Market Hall.
Pwllhai Local Produce Market takes place every Thursday at Pwllhai, Cardigan between 10am and 4pm.
Shooting groups rejected this saying that few people now used lead gunshot but there was a “historical legacy” of lead shot in the environment.
Twelve judges in the Food and Farming Awards 2012, including Angela Hartnett, Valentine Warner, Charles Campion and Victoria Moore met recently to debate, taste and drink their way through thousands of nominations and decided on this year’s finalists.
BBC listeners, viewers and online users had sent in nominations from all over the UK, covering nine different food categories, from Best Food Producer to Best Food Market and from Best Dinner Lady to Best Takeaway. The judging team spent weeks, reading, researching, exchanging ideas and opinion as to who should make it to the eventual line-up of 28 finalists.
The public spending watchdog has stepped up an investigation into the sale of publicly-owned land worth more than £20m.
Sixteen parcels of land dotted around Wales were bought by a company based in Guernsey.
The auditor general for Wales, Huw Vaughan Thomas, said an initial probe raised a number of questions that warrant further in-depth investigation.
