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email this page to a friendFunding on offer to help make Richmondshire a safer place
Friday 11 January 2008COMMUNITY projects could be entitled to funding to help tackle some of the most important issues facing residents in one Yorkshire Dales district.
Bill for Beckett's farm blunder: £300 million
Thursday 10 January 2008THE BRITISH taxpayer faces a bill of almost £300 million in EU fines for failing to pay farm subsidies on time; it was claimed by Euro MPs yesterday. And the cause of the blunder: the "calamitous failure" of former Defra secretary Margaret Beckett.
New TB stats suggest a downward trend
Thursday 10 January 2008NEW TB statistics for 2007, published this week, suggest that the disease is beginning to decline without any cull say the Badger Trust.
Plant more elms - Prince of Wales
Wednesday 09 January 2008THE Prince of Wales has launched a new campaign to replace thousands of English elm trees which were decimated by disease over a period of 30 years until the 1990s.
Wharfe to benefit from sewer upgrade
Wednesday 09 January 2008CONTRACTORS will start work next week on a project which should help to improve the quality of water in the River Wharfe as it flows through an area of the southern Yorkshire Dales.
The Yorkshire Dales - outdoor gym!
Tuesday 08 January 2008The chairman of Natural England is urging people with a New Year wish to lose weight to join the "outdoor gym" in places like the Yorkshire Dales.
TV chefs launch broiler chicken war
Monday 07 January 2008THIS WEEK will see one of the most vitriolic attacks on the horrors of the battery chicken industry by two of television's most famous chefs, Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.