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BEE SLAUGHTER

I am a beekeeper and am totally mortified by the Government’s third U-turn on banning neonicotinoids on farm land, announced on 23 January.

May 2022 saw me experience poisoning from a neighbouring farm spraying a crop of maize five times in as many weeks, which appeared to result in thousands of my honeybees dying. They firstly suffered

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