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MP calls for more help for farmers - and wants a U-turn on the farm inheritance tax (opens the original)
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A CUMBRIAN MP who was suspended from Labour for four months is calling for a total U-turn on the controversial farm inheritance tax. Markus Campbell-Savours, MP for Penrith and Solway, lost the Whip last December for voting against proposals to change the family farm tax. At the time, the government planned to impose inheritance tax on farmers' business assets after the first £1m, but soon after he lost the whip, it raised the tax-free threshold to £2.5m. Mr Campbell-Savours was the only Labour
Farmers may have to 'reconsider' environmental management as funding system struggles (opens the original)
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A THIRD-generation Cumbrian farming family described how they had been left 'desperate and distraught' after missing out on last week's fight for funding "shambles". Applications for the £233m Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) funding for England closed in under six hours, meaning some farmers like Matthew and Liz Staley had their applications rejected. âWhat a shambles SFI window 2 was!" said Liz. "We still canât be certain what has happened, but our application wasn't fully successful e
Play pulls back the curtain on the role of farmers' wives through three generations (opens the original)
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FARMERS' wives were once viewed primarily through a cosy "aprons and scones" lens. And even today, despite Clarkson's Farm beaming out from our TV screens, that image still clings, managing to gloss over the actual isolation, financial stress and gruelling hours that define day-to-day farm life. In the Farmer's Wife, Hannah Khalil's new play, directed by Liz Stevenson, inspired by Lakes farmer Helen Rebanks' bestselling memoir of the same name, it is the women who are getting on with holding eve
Badger culling officially over in county after 751 badgers shot or trapped in 2 years (opens the original)
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BADGER culling in Cumbria has now ended, according to Carlisle MP Julie Minns. There had been a question mark hanging over whether the badger cull had ended in an area south of Carlisle in a bid to halt the spread of bovineTB in cattle. This had led to the Carlisle MP seeking clarification from the Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs that the badger culling in Cumbria's 'Area 73' had ended after two years of operation. In a letter to Ms Minns, Sue Hayman, Baroness of Ullock and Parliame
Young shepherd wins sheep handler of the year at Cumbrian agricultural show (opens the original)
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YOUNG shepherd Jade Hewitt stepped into the spotlight at one of the county's last agricultural shows of the summer, and led the charge to win the prestigious Cumbria Young Handler of the Year 2026. Jade, 13, a pupil at Appleby Grammar School, proudly led her traditional blue-faced Leicester tup to take the coveted red ribbon at this year's Hesket Newmarket Show. Jade, whose family farm at Crosby Ravensworth, had gained the most points over the year showing her sheep at local shows throughout Cum
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