Government waters down inheritance tax plan for farms

Government proposals to tax inherited farmland have been watered down, with the planned threshold increasing from £1m to ...

Villagers vow to fight solar farm plans

People in the Derbyshire village of Brailsford have vowed to fight plans to turn hundreds of acres of farmland into a solar ...

UK Government Reverses Farm Inheritance Tax Rules After Protests — Relief Threshold Raised

UK government raises farm inheritance tax relief threshold after farmer protests, easing pressure on family farms while ...

British farmers ‘bewildered’ and scared for the future amid major concerns over tractor tax, review finds

The inheritance tax changes – dubbed the ‘tractor tax’ or ‘family farm tax’ – have been described as ‘an extraordinary ...

'Choose British and choose local' - Shoppers urged to buy Christmas turkeys from local farms

Yorkshire turkey farmers are urging households to make locally and home-grown poultry their choice for Christmas as ...

Labour U-turn on stupid, vindictive farm tax was inevitable – now we need MORE of them

Plough forward FOR months, ministers defended the farm tax in the face of widespread public fury – just as they’d once ...

'Hated' farm tax update as critics say it must be 'scrapped'

In response to the review, Liberal Democrat environment, food and rural affairs spokesman Tim Farron said: “This devastating ...
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Historians Say This Rare Mosaic Found on a British Farm Depicts Scenes From a Long-Lost Account of the Trojan War

New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...
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165 farms under flood evacuation order or alert in B.C.‘s Fraser Valley

More than 160 farms are in the way of floodwaters in British Columbia's Fraser Valley, although provincial Agriculture ...

Taxpayers’ cash being used to build insect farm – 2,300 miles away in Africa

Campaigners have criticised taxpayers' money being spent on building an insect farm in Tunisia. Bryant Research, which wants ...

Fear and frustration as floods put Abbotsford, B.C., farms under threat yet again

Rising waters in British Columbia's Fraser Valley have "not meant good news" for farmers in a part of the province still ...

In major concession, British Govt waters down inheritance tax after backlash from farmers

The British Government said today that it will raise inheritance tax thresholds for farmers’ estates from £1 million to £2.5m ($2.3m-$5.8m), signalling a major climbdown of a policy that triggered ...