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Seafood career appetiser to start straight away after Defra-funding success

Grimsby Institute secured backing for entry-level Steps into Seafood programme as part of significant funding package for the sector

Birmingham Post

Labour slams government over ‘discredited theory’ for mysterious big crustacean die-off

‘This algal bloom theory was pursued despite warnings from the local fishing industry and by university marine experts,’ says Jim McMahon

The Independent UK

Clean Air Zone charges 'highly unlikely' except in two Greater Manchester boroughs, Andy Burnham says

The government has asked Greater Manchester to analyse the impact of introducing charges on some vehicles in the city centre

Manchester Evening News

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How climate change could fare in the UK's new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

The UK government has announced its business department will be split into separate departments for science, business and energy. The new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, to give it its full name, represents the return of an energy and climate-focused department after a seven-year hiatus.

The Conversation

Government could still require Greater Manchester to enforce Clean Air Zone charges

Greater Manchester has still not convinced the government that it will improve air quality enough without introducing charges

Manchester Evening News

Bird flu jumps to mammals amid UK’s biggest outbreak of avian virus

Animals are believed to have eaten dead wild birds that were infected with the virus

The Independent UK

Legal challenge to Government’s border control posts legislation

Defra is being challenged by loyalist activist Jamie Bryson on legislation meant to ease the building of border control posts at North Irish ports.

The Independent UK

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Supermarket shoppers issued warning as 'half and half' bread taken off shelves

The Real Bread campaign group has been waging war againt the naming of 'half and half' loaves.

Daily Record

Bread warning for shoppers as some 'half and half' products pulled from shelves

The Real Bread Campaign is asking them to review the marketing saying by law the word wholemeal ''can only be used in a product name or marketing if all of the flour in that product is wholemeal''.

Nottingham Post

Shoppers issued bread warning as 'half and half' products stripped from supermarket shelves

Iceland is said to have already made changes, with other supermarkets possibly following suit in the future

Chronicle Live

Warning for shoppers who buy 'half and half' bread as products pulled from shelves

Iceland has removed its own-brand ‘50% white and wholemeal’ loaf after a complaint was made by the lobby group to trading standards and campaigners say other supermarkets could follow the move

Daily Mirror

Warning to anyone who buys bread as products pulled from shelves

Iceland has reportedly already made changes

Liverpool Echo

Campaign group fighting half-and-half bread sees battle taken to the Government

The group has written to manufacturers and retailers as well as local authorities, and the case has been sent up to DEFRA

Wales Online

Top geneticist warns UK is embarking on experiment that could ‘cause great harm’

Lord Winston told Parliament he was ‘very concerned’ that the use of this technology could have unintended consequences

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Environment Secretary would like sewage discharges cut ‘a lot quicker’

Therese Coffey said she would want it to happen faster than the final 2050 target – if there was not a ‘massive’ impact on household water bills.

Chronicle Live

Government rules on wood burning stoves from fuel restrictions to smoke control areas

Anyone with a wood burning stove could be fined up to £1,000 if they don't follow the strict regulations around them - here's what you need to know

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a farce’: the giant Brexit border control site now used to inspect Ukrainian pets

The customs inspection site at Sevington in Kent has space for 1,700 lorries, but lies largely deserted

Chronicle Live

Panel rules new disease may have caused sea creature deaths on North East beaches

The official report details how dredging and pyridine were very unlikely to have caused the tragic die-off.

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Daily Mirror

'Apocalyptic' mass crustaceans deaths 'caused by new disease unknown to science'

Locals in Hartlepool to Whitby described the sight of dead crabs and lobsters as 'apocalyptic' and a new report is out after the Department for the Environment initially blamed an 'algal bloom'

Wales Online

No definite answer to cause of mass crab deaths on north-east coast as experts give their verdict

It had been claimed that work to expand a port in the area had triggered the deaths

Wales Online

7 million birds have died amid bird flu outbreak 'devastating' farms

Defra said the figures are UK-wide and showed both captive birds that died of avian influenza and those that were culled for disease control

The Guardian - UK

Mass crab die-off: scientists say ‘we weren’t questioned’ for crucial report

A review panel on the 2021 Teesside eco-disaster is due to send its findings to ministers this week, but evidence from academics may not be given full weight

Chronicle Live

Single-use plastic plates and forks set to be banned by Government in crackdown

The law will initially target takeaways with ban on single-use cutlery and polystyrene trays and follows similar measures in Scotland and Wales

The Independent UK

Single-use plastic plates and cutlery to be banned from October in England

Greenpeace says ban is ‘nibbling around edges of a giant problem’

Chronicle Live

MPs urge freeport dredging pause as North East marine mass deaths investigated

A mass die-off of crustaceans occurred along the North East coast between October and December 2021

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