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Maureen Hodges

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Maureen Hodges

    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

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Maureen Hodges

    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

  3. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Maureen Hodges

    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. “What a shambles SFI window 2 was!" said Liz. "We still can’t be certain what has happened, but our application wasn't fully successful e

  4. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Maureen Hodges

    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. “What a shambles SFI window 2 was!" said Liz. "We still can’t be certain what has happened, but our application wasn't fully successful e

  5. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Maureen Hodges

    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

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