Headlines from across the countryside
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Tim Bonner: Can eating venison benefit the environment? 'Early versions of the Government’s ‘Food Strategy’ are reported to have recommended an “increase [to] the use of responsibly sourced wild venison” and
a consultation launched this week suggested that the public sector should consider putting venison on the menu'. Click here to read more.
Stay cool: Top tips to stay cool in the heat - including a trick used by the Royal Navy via Sky News. Click here to read
more.
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Farmers Guardian: Councillors fight back in vegan meal row
Members are launching a local food fight back, after Oxfordshire County Council’s decision to switch to plant-based only menus has been called into question. The news comes following a Countryside Alliance investigation which revealed the council did not know the origins of the plant-based menu items.
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North Norfolk News: Bird watchers set to flock to Norfolk quarry after rare bee-eaters spotted
With their brightly coloured wings and beautiful song, a colony
of bee-eaters is setting hearts a-flutter in north Norfolk. The seven birds - usually only seen in southern Europe and northern Africa - were first spied by local birdwatcher Andy Chamberlain over the jubilee weekend.
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Gov UK: Anglers welcomed back to river fishing as the Close Season ends
The Environment Agency welcomes anglers back to rivers across England today, Thursday 16th June, as the
close season for coarse fishing comes to an end.
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Mail Online: The key to wiping out rural mobile 'not spots'? Vodafone switches on the UK's first self-powering 4G mast in Pembrokeshire
Poor mobile coverage is an issue that many Brits regularly contend with –
with people in rural areas particularly struggling to connect. Now, Vodafone believes it has the solution to these rural mobile 'not-spots', having switched on the UK's first self-powering mobile phone mast.
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Farming UK: Waitrose hailed after rolling out first-of-its-kind animal welfare app
Waitrose
has won a major award after rolling out a first-of-its-kind app that measures the emotional wellbeing of livestock. The supermarket won the Best Retailer Innovation prize at this year’s Compassion in World Farming Awards for its work to develop the Qualitative Behavioural Assessment (QBA) App.
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Rural Britain needs levelling up too
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The Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill received its Second Reading on 8 June after a debate that, from a rural perspective, was thoroughly underwhelming.
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