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Plans for a biomass plant at a factory near Wrexham are being recommended for backing despite worries it would be close to tourist attractions.

This year’s bad weather has forced some beekeepers to feed their swarms to keep them alive, says the National Beekeeping Centre for Wales.

Wales has endured its third wettest summer since records began in 1910, according to the Met Office.

For sunshine it is expected to be the country’s second dullest.

Peter Davies, an adviser to the Welsh government on green policy, was responding to a report that the green economy is withstanding the recession.

A ROW is brewing up between the Welsh Assembly and anglers on one side and a group of fishing boats from Wales and North Devon on the other over historic access rights, also known as “grandfather” rights. The assembly is proposing to end these …

WALES’ hospitality and food industries could save up to £5m a year by reducing their waste and recycling more, according to an environmental organisation. Wrap (Waste and Resources Action Programme) Cymru says food and packaging waste analysis …

A PENARTH restaurant, based in the restored Victorian beach shelter on the Esplanade, is celebrating after winning best restaurant in the ‘Welsh Food Oscars’. The Fig Tree was awarded the Gold ‘People’s Choice’ Food Award in the 2012 Wales True Taste …

Organic wines produced in Europe will be able to be sold under a certified label this year, as the EU tightens rules on winemaking to rival organic bottles from the New World.

Wines made in Europe can already carry a label certifying that the wine is “made from organic grapes” but this “does not cover all winemaking practices, that means the whole refining process from the grape to the wine”, said the European Commission in a statement.

The aim is to ensure that the techniques used to produce organic wine respect common rules.

WELSH Government Agriculture Minister, Alun Davies, has repeated his commitment to ensuring “a prosperous and sustainable future” for milk producers in Wales — to the extent of going it alone on the introduction of unilateral legislation.

FARMERS across Wales are said to be already benefiting from Working Smarter – the Welsh Government-adopted initiative that resulted in 74 recommendations aimed at helping Welsh farming prosper.