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The UK Towing Safety Alliance (UKTSA) has released a comprehensive four-year analysis of incident data (2022–2025) from National Highways’ Strategic Road Network (SRN). The findings reveal a critical 23% increase in total towing-related incidents, driven primarily by a growing maintenance crisis involving utility and commercial trailers.

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The AHDB’s latest harvest progress report found wheat yields to be down by 13% on the five-year average, based on 85% of the UK wheat area being cut.

An unusually early harvest means combining is now largely complete across much of England, although some crops are still to be cut further north, as well as in Scotland and Northern Ireland.


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Yesterday, 13th August, temperatures provisionally reached 38.1°C at Kew Gardens in London, making it the fifth hottest day on record for the UK.

Pershore in Worcestershire recorded highs of 38°C, with a total of 40 locations across central and southern England recording temperatures of 36°C or higher.

The latest extreme heat als...


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Researchers at Scotland’s Rural University College (SRUC) have discovered that microbiome-led breeding could reduce cattle methane emissions without impacting overall growth and performance.

A study at SRUC’s Beef and Sheep Research Centre used respiration chambers to measure methane emissions in cattle per kg dry matter intake.<...


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inister Andrew Muir appointed Dr Martin Blake to carry out the review, photo by DAERA.

Earlier this week, Northern Irish farmers gathered outside parliament buildings (Stormont) to protest against what was described as “like a wild west scene”.

The cull took place in land near Fivemiletown in County Tyrone on 29th June and was carried out by staff from t...


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