The Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson, has officially opened Grocontinental’s new 4,000 square metre frozen warehouse at the company’s headquarters in Whitchurch, Shropshire.
Secretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Rt. Hon. Owen Paterson, visited Harper Adams University last week to meet a group of final year students.
A firm of Shropshire solicitors has attained its third consecutive Green Achiever gold award in three years – the first business to do so under the UK-wide scheme.
Few issues this year have ignited such passionate debate as the badger cull. The government plan to remove a minimum of 70% of badgers in selected pilot culls, has been touted as a last resort in the fight against bovine tuberculosis (TB).
The Shropshire Wildlife Trust has welcomed the Government’s decision to delay the proposed badger cull until next summer, though The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson says that he remains utterly convinced that culling is the right thing do to.