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Winners of free range egg awards revealed - and two are from the South West
TWO winners of this year's British Free Range Egg Producers Association (BFREPA) Free Range Awards are from the South West. The award for marketing initiative of the year went to the Great Cornish Egg & Spoon Race, set up by St Ewe Free Range
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MP hosts summit with Farming Minister to discuss issues affecting Dorset farmers
AN MP hosted a summit this month with the Farming Minister, Mark Spencer, in Dorset. Chris Loader, MP for West Dorset, hosted the event at Kingston Maurward College near Dorchester, on November 9. More than 40 NFU farmers and South Dorset MP,
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Somerset village could soon be dwarfed by solar farm if plans go ahead
A SMALL Somerset village could soon be dwarfed by solar panels if plans for a new solar farm are approved. Low Carbon UK Solar Investment has put forward proposals for an enormous new solar farm on the B3109 Bradford Road near the village of Rode
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Action group says trees on farmland will block views of Cranborne AONB
A NEW action group says plans to plant more than 166,000 trees on farmland near Stourhead House will block views to a picturesque beauty spot spread over four counties. They claim the scheme by the Stourhead (Western) Estate run by Nick and Lucy
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Pick up a sustainable Christmas tree and help save Dorset's nature
PEOPLE will be able to pick out their own sustainable home-grown Christmas tree at a Purbeck nature reserve next month. RSPB Arne’s Pull a Pine weekend returns on Saturday, December 2 and Sunday, December 3. Removing pine trees growing on ancient