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October 24, 2007
A thousand farmers
When a leaking drainage pipe from a slurry store pollutes a stream or a river and causes off the fishes and invertebrate life for even a single kilometre the Environment Agency investigates and prosecutes and the farmer has to pay up thousands of pounds in fines and costs..
When a leaking drainage pipe from a laboratory handling seriously dangerous viruses pollutes the countryside, causes the deaths of thousands of animals, devastates the food industry and costs thousands of farmers thousands of pounds the Envirionment Agency does nothing.
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October 23, 2007
militant farmers
I felt like a country bumpkin today. I count myself fortunate that the straw did not drop from the corner of my mouth and that I did not keel over from the noxious fumes of Cardiff city centre.
It's not often I have to visit the Western Mail HQ, so this was my first encounter with the newly blocked roads of the city centre. I managed to make the meeting on time by luck rather than judgement, but had an unwanted tour of the environs on the way out.
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