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Michelle O’Neill tells inquiry in Belfast she is ‘truly sorry’ for going to Bobby Storey’s funeral with 1,800 mournersA controversial farming payment scheme which sparked mass protests has been delayed as Welsh government ministers accept “changes will be needed”, PA Media reports. PA says:The Welsh rural affairs secretary Huw Irranca-Davies has announced changes to the sustainable farming scheme (SFS) – a Welsh government subsidy plan which is set to require farmers to set aside more land for environmental schemes.Concerns about its impact, alongside measures to control TB and regulations aimed at preventing nitrates from seeping into rivers, have led farmers to mobilise in protest, with around 3,000 people demonstrating outside the Senedd in February.Today, on instruction from the foreign secretary, the Chinese ambassador was summoned to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.The FCDO was unequivocal in setting out that the recent pattern of behaviour directed by China against the UK including cyber-attacks, reports of espionage links and the issuing of bounties is not acceptable. Continue reading...
Michelle O’Neill tells inquiry in Belfast she is ‘truly sorry’ for going to Bobby Storey’s funeral with 1,800 mourners
A controversial farming payment scheme which sparked mass protests has been delayed as Welsh government ministers accept “changes will be needed”, PA Media reports. PA says:
The Welsh rural affairs secretary Huw Irranca-Davies has announced changes to the sustainable farming scheme (SFS) – a Welsh government subsidy plan which is set to require farmers to set aside more land for environmental schemes.
Concerns about its impact, alongside measures to control TB and regulations aimed at preventing nitrates from seeping into rivers, have led farmers to mobilise in protest, with around 3,000 people demonstrating outside the Senedd in February.
Today, on instruction from the foreign secretary, the Chinese ambassador was summoned to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
The FCDO was unequivocal in setting out that the recent pattern of behaviour directed by China against the UK including cyber-attacks, reports of espionage links and the issuing of bounties is not acceptable. Continue reading...
