MEP vents anger as French pig farmers 'manipulate the rules'
SCOTLAND'S rapidly diminishing band of pig producers is under serious financial pressure with losses in the region of £20 for each animal sent to slaughter.
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Scottish government rejects plans for Lewis wind farm
Plans to build one of Europe's largest onshore wind farms in the Outer Hebrides were formally rejected today after Scottish ministers ruled the £500m scheme would devastate a globally significant peatland
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MEP calls on Brown to stop Commission proposal
A NEW proposal from the European Commission which was approved in the European Parliament yesterday could allow the Spanish fishing fleet to grab UK quota and displace British fishermen in the North Sea, a Euro MP has claimed.
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Ministers launch EU treaty referendum bid
Politicians opposed to the EU treaty yesterday launched their campaign for a referendum in a government minister's constituency
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FISHING POLICY HAS BEEN DISASTROUS, SAYS MEP
Scots Tory MEP Struan Stevenson marked yesterday's 50th anniversary of the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy with a savage critique of the management system
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