🐕 A market review of the veterinary sector identified pet owners are finding it difficult to access price lists and prescription costs, and are potentially overpaying for medicines. Not good if you're a farmer with working dogs on farm.
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'The countryside will be a key battleground in both local and national elections this year and parties that align their priorities with those of rural voters will give themselves the best chance of winning.' Read more from us below ⬇️

🗣️ 'The RSPB can't bring itself to celebrate the resurgence of harriers because to do so would mean supporting the conservational success story that is positively linked to grouse shooting,' says Tim Bonner to Fieldsports Channel.

Read more on our website 👉 eu1.hubs.ly/H08GshN0

🚨 The Countryside Alliance has called for an overhaul of the way police prioritise rural crimes, including fly-tipping, agricultural machinery theft, hare poaching, and trespassing.
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@caupdates #ruralcrime #ruralpolice

Some immediate reactions to the RSPCA (England & Wales) rebrand. Firstly it is a fairly blatant admission that a lot has gone wrong. You don’t call yourself the ‘new’ RSPCA unless you’re keen to distance yourself from the old one (see new Labour) 🧵 1/n

Great coverage of the Crawley and Horsham hunt trail hunting with Master and huntsman Richard Gurney 👏 Like so many hunts, which put on over 12,000 trail hunting days every season, they attract support from across the local community.

Full interview --> bbc.in/3xy2jUs

The Scottish Government's decision to ban woodburning stoves - an essential heating source during power outages - poses a real threat to rural communities. Read our response here ⬇️

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This is a huge win - well done to the upland managers, keepers, and volunteers who are delivering ever rising numbers of #HenHarriers in England

Highland Council, Rutland County Council, and Peterborough City Council all join our pro-farming campaign! Which council will be next? 💪

#Winning 💪👏

At this point the number of councils that have passed our Countryside Alliance motion supporting local farmers and freedom of dietary choice eclipses those that endorsed the fake PlantBasedTreaty. We're taking action at the national level, too.

Congratulations to the Bonar family (Nesbitt’s) in Glengormley winners of the Countryside Alliance best Butchers Lovely evening Titanic Belfast Congratulations to all the different category winners and all the finalists.

And now onto the winners… This business is a stunning farm shop with its own butcher and deli counter where they celebrate great tasting local food, along with fantastic plants and gardening displays. Congratulations to Coleman's Garden Centre #CountrysideAllianceAwards

Very well done to all our Highly commended and Countryside Alliance Awards Winners at last night’s event at Titanic.
Just a short clip of the atmosphere as Rathlin Co-op Shop came up to recive thier Highly Commended Award for best village shop / post office.
Rathlin Co-operative

Litter from just 1 1/2 miles of very rural lane outside our Hertfordshire village. Don’t understand the mentality of people who litter #countrysidecleanup

Thank you to everyone who helps keep our community clean and tidy. We loved our Great British Spring Clean in Endon. Spring is definitely the best month for a group litter pick! 🇬🇧🌳🚮🗑

#LoveWhereYouLive
#GBSpringClean
#CountrysideCleanUp

So peer reviewed research published by Nature isn’t “good reliable scientific evidence” according to science denier Dom nature.com/articles/s4159…

This is real wildlife crime. With comments from me.

Blessed with beautiful spring sunshine while out litter picking Caldon Canal, Station Road, Post Lane, Park Lane and parts of the A53 Leek Road. Thank you to everyone who helps keep our Endon community clean and tidy. 🌳🚮🗑

#LoveWhereYouLive #CountrysideCleanUp #GBSpringClean

A huge congratulations to every single business mentioned at our #CountrysideAllianceAwards Scottish Champions’ reception tonight, and to all of the businesses nominated. It is because of your support for our rural communities and these businesses that we can celebrate them 👏🏻