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First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Seven members re-appointed to serve on the Veterinary Residues Committee for a further four years from January 2013.
Devon and Somerset is one of five regions selected by Government earlier this year to benefit from a Rural Growth Network.
All unrecorded footpaths and bridleways created before 1949 cannot be recorded after 1 January 2026.
The grants total £40 million and mark the second round of the Rural Community Broadband Fund and Farming and Forestry Improvement Scheme.
First of the Rural Roadshows, allowing Defra ministers to listen to issues and concerns of rural communities and businesses.
This scheme is part of Defra's £100 million package of investments through the Rural Development Programme for England.
Rural and Farming Networks bring together people from rural communities, rural businesses and the food and farming industries.
The four UK Fisheries Ministers have appointed a new Board to the Sea Fish Industry Authority (Seafish).
If you could make small changes to your lifestyle to protect and ‘Love Your River’, would you do it?
Five public and private sector partnerships have been selected to each deliver a regional Rural Growth Network.
A new £20 million scheme to help provide work-based training for rural businesses has been announced by Farming Minister, Jim Paice today.
Grants will enable entrepreneurs in rural areas to take life-changing opportunities to grow their businesses through the Rural Economy Grant scheme.
Yorkshire business and community leaders are helping shape Government action to support rural areas today in the first of a series of Rural Roadshows with Defra ministers.
The fund will run initially from 2012/13 to 2014/15 with up to £10 million each year.
This unprecedented funding for a new charity paves the way for the launch of the new Canal & River Trust later this year.
First stretch of the England Coastal Path at Weymouth Bay approved.
Two vacancies in the New Forest, North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales NPAs and one vacancy in the Peak District and South Downs NPAs and the Broads Authority.
The Networks bring together people from rural communities, rural businesses and the food and farming industries.
A £15 million pilot project to support rural businesses and grow the rural economy is now open for applications, Environment Minister Benyon announced today.
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