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Pictured at the opening of the €7.8m Courthouse Shared Creative Hub in Bushmills are: Barrister Fiona Bate, host, Sarah Travers; Linda Sheridan, assistant principal, libraries development and community policy, Department of Rural and Community Development, Ireland, Gina McIntyre, CEO of The Special EU Programmes Body, Councillor Tanya Stirling, Deputy Mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, Communities Minister, Gordon Lyons, Jayne Taggart, CEO of Enterprise Causeway, Frances Lundy, chair Enterprise Causeway and barrister David Bate

New €7.8m Courthouse Shared Space Creative Hub officially opens in Bushmills

MP Robin Swann

The European Union’s General Product Safety Regulations will soon apply in NI

The very wet conditions that have impacted across the European Union

It’s turning out to be another challenging year for the arable sector

MLA Tom Elliott

Elliott warns NI is facing vet medicine 'crisis'

Farming Life news

Government’s commitment to securing NI’s access to veterinary medicines welcomed

Delivering enriched environments is now a priority for the poultry sector

It’s been an eventful few days for pigs and poultry

DAERA has issued a reminder on the TRACES system ahead of pedigree livestock sales

Reminder on TRACES NT system ahead of pedigree sales

In 2022, NI spent a record £1.18 billion on animal feed which was up 22 per cent from £966 million in 2021. Picture: stock image

Gap in milk price is unsustainable, says UFU

NIVA to host workshop on quality of working life

Regulatory divergence impacts the whole of the UK, not just NI, for access to the EU market.

Feed Forum: Managing regulatory divergence

The Europe-wide study looked at honey imported into EU countries, and tested the imported samples for impurities.

Study finds 10 UK honey brands are diluted with cheap sugar syrup

LMC Chief Executive Ian Stevenson

Beef trade set to remain steady

A Brexit 50p coin has sold on eBay for £10,000

Brexit 50p coin fetches £10k on eBay - 10 million still in circulation

The parts of the UK with the most and least Brexit regret revealed

MPs are set to discuss the consequences of Brexit for the first time.

Consequences of Brexit to be debated by MPs for the first time

Croatia scrapped its old currency for Euro in January 2023.

New travel rules face Britons travelling to US and EU
New travel forms and new currencies - the changes Britons face travelling to the EU and US in 2023
Dennis Morton

UFU president David Brown (right) with his son Neil

David Brown outlines his priorities as UFU president

Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has announced that new legislation will come into effect from 24 October 2022, which makes the financial penalty applied in the event of repeated negligent breaches fairer and more proportionate than the current regime.

Changes to the Cross-Compliance penalty regime

£286.9 million in Direct Payments issued to NI farmers

NFU Scotland president Martin Kennedy, NFU Cymru president Aled Jones, NFU president Minette Batters, Copa president Christiane Lambert and UFU president David Brown.

Celebrating 50 years of the British Agriculture Bureau

UFU president David Brown on his farm in Fermanagh. Picture: Cliff Donaldson

Pragmatic solutions needed to make NI Protocol work for agriculture in its entir...

Has agriculture become forgotten sector of UK economy?

Three mobile customers will pay £2 per day for roaming in the EU from 23 May (Photo: Adobe)

Millions face roaming charges for using mobiles abroad from today

Martin Lewis issues 10 important travel checks ahead of going abroad

Proposed government reforms will save airlines thousands of pounds (Photo: Getty Images)

Payouts for cancelled or delayed flights to be cut to £57 under shake-up

TV chef Clodagh McKenna

Watch TV chef Clodagh ‘Rooting for Real Farms’ in new video series

Why is Ukraine known as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’? Here’s what it produces and...
Ukraine is known as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’ and is amongst the top three exporters of grain in the world.
Joanne Knox

Updated guidance in relation to GB shows and sales is ‘imminent’

Passengers would be entitled to compensation in the event of a delayed domestic flight (Photo: Getty Images)

More passengers to get payouts for delayed domestic flights under new plans

There is ‘simply no need’ for additional barriers on movement of veterinary medi...

A woman wearing a protective mask walks her dog on the Esplanade du Trocadero square in front of the Eiffel Tower in March 2020 (Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

France travel: UK traveller restrictions to be tightened - what are the new rule...

Euro Auctions hosts two-day ‘off site’ dispersal sale

Imperial measurements could be making a comeback - here's what that means

Pets allowed to travel from GB to NI without checks

The next travel update is expected on Thursday 16 September (Photo: Getty Images)

Travel traffic light system set to be scrapped for ‘go’ and ‘no-go’ list

Lockhart – Future can be bright for local agri-food

Finding the best way forward

Lockhart writesto Eustice about ‘authority vacuum’

Comment: Where now for Poots?

Tyrone countryside. Picture: Cliff Donaldson

GB to NI - Cattle and sheep movements update for members

Calella de Palafrugell, Catalonia, Spain near Barcelona (Shutterstock)

Spain could welcome sun-seeking Brits from June - but will you need a 'vaccine p...

Springtime sheep. Picture: Cliff Donaldson

Varied caseload for UFU animal health and welfare committee

The contactless payment limit will increase from £45 to £100 (Photo: Shutterstock)

The contactless payment limit will increase to £100 this year - what you need to...

UFU VI representative Bruce Steel

Sustainable use of pesticide

On-farm milk vending machine reconnects farmers with the public

Poots reiterates call for Common Travel Area

Hundreds of UK musicians have signed a letter saying that they have been "shamefully failed" by the Government (Photo: Paul Kane/Getty Images)

This is why European tours could be off the table for UK bands and musicians

Alan Leckey from Castlederg, exhibitor of the supreme pen at the show and sale of prime lambs at Allam's Mart in Belfast in December 1988. Included are auctioneer George Clegg, left, and David Workman, agricultural, Northern Bank. Picture: Eddie Harvey/Farming Life archives

BYGONE DAYS: Union is left ‘devastated’ as new EU aid package is revealed

Brexit deal has been long awaited, says UFU

Seeds and cereals chair Mark McCollum

UFU Arable and horticulture committee plan ahead for 2021

Facebook is moving UK users onto US terms and conditions - here’s what it means ...

Carla Lockhart

More detail needed on NI Protocol

Val and Drew McConnell

Sustainability in practice

Pfizer says its Covid vaccine could bring ‘normal life’ back by the second half ...

The UK may end up with an ‘Australia-style’ trade deal after Brexit - what Boris...