Organic news from other websites

The cash, which is from the public purse, is part of £845179 handed out to politicians who failed to be re-elected to the Welsh Assembly or stood down last year. The payments are known as resettlement grants, and are given to assembly members upon …

They highlight “policy failures, or lack of political support for” onshore wind farms, solar, thermal, liquid biofuels, on-farm anaerobic digestion and biomass CHP in particular. They also argue that government policy is “polarised towards targeting …

“It is now spreading throughout Wales, we have already seen sites up and down Wales, predominantly in the south-west but between ourselves and the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), our surveys show is has been found all over.

Public Health Wales and Torfaen County Borough Council with the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency are investigating an outbreak of cryptosporidium associated with a farm in Cwmbran. Four people who have worked at Greenmeadow Community …

Members of the public are invited to attend and celebrate this exciting, Welsh landmark project. The community celebration will see local business, food and drink producers, community groups and entertainers, come together on Aberystwyth Promenade to …

A COMMUNITY councillor from Cilcennin who stood in the Welsh Assembly elections campaigning on animal welfare issues has appeared in court alongside his wife charged with six counts of causing unnecessary suffering to dogs, cats and a horse in their …

New taxes could damage Welsh businesses. Mr Lermon said that the ICAEW recognised the benefits that devolution has brought in terms of greater transparency of the policy making process which could be are tailored to Welsh circumstances. But, he…

£1.2 billion in 2000-6 was matched, under EU rules, by an equal amount from the Welsh Assembly and UK government. ‘Objective 1’ carried on under a new name from 2006 onwards,with the EU’s ‘Convergence’ programme producing £1bn of European Regional …

While over at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne, they share plants from different regions of the world and put on a food and craft fair, with music, in their vast glasshouse. Mums will even get in for free on the special day too.