Anguilla is working hard to protect its natural & cultural heritage.

#DarwinPlus funding is supporting AXA National Trust to manage Fountain National Park as a bio-secure wildlife sanctuary & visitor attraction, protecting endangered reptiles & plants from invasive alien species.

Anguilla has big ambitions for sustainability, it’s been great to see some of their creative biodiversity & conservation projects.

Great to work with #UKOverseasTerritories on sustainable dev & biodiversity strategies - thnx to AXA National Trust & Government of Anguilla for supporting my visit

Tesco has announced a Best of British tab on its grocery website in a move to support farmers. Great news! 👏🚜🇬🇧

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🇬🇧 Another big win for the #BuyBritishButton ! 🇬🇧

The UK's biggest supermarket, Tesco, has launched their online Best of British tab!

This is fantastic news, giving shoppers the ability to easily choose from the highest quality produce Britain has to offer.

Dr Luke Evans MP

Today we’ve activated the Farming Recovery Fund, providing eligible farmers with up to £25,000 to restore their land following flood damage.

We continue to support farmers, and since 2015 we’ve protected over 900,000 acres of agricultural land from flooding.

Find out more 👇

Our response to the #Dartmoor Review sets out how we will ensure farmers have the support needed to produce food while also protecting nature. 🧑‍🌾 🦋

We also back the creation of a new group to develop a long-term plan for Dartmoor. (1/2)

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We're working to enhance #AccessToNature 💚

Designating new National Nature Reserves 🦆

Creating community forests 🌳

Developing the King Charles III England coastal path🚶

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The UK is the first major economy to halve its emissions – having cut them by 50% between 1990 & 2022, while also growing its economy by 79% - new official statistics just released confirm. This compares to a 23% reduction in France & no change in the USA between 1990 & 2021

Those who pollute must pay for damage they cause to environment.

Today, our #WaterRestorationFund opens for applications.

Currently £11m fund made up exclusively of water company fines & penalties ringfenced to make water quality improvements in areas fines were issued.
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💧 Our Water Restoration Fund is now open for applications!

🏞️ Up to £11m of funding from water company fines and penalties is available for local projects that will improve the water environment.

Learn more: gov.uk/government/new…

#PlanForWater

Great move by LTA and BRITA in removing all single use plastics from major tennis events this year. It will cut out 100k single use plastic bottles - many that end up in the environment. lta.org.uk/news/brita-ann…

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Pensioners are £900 a year better off thanks to an 8.5% rise to the State Pension coming in today

Here's Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride talking about it on Sky News

CLOSE: An excellent day of batting for Somerset as they end day three with 374/7 and a lead of 90 runs

🏏 Lammonby 90
🏏 Renshaw 66
🏏 Rew 57
🏏 Aldridge 50*

#KENvSOM
#WeAreSomerset
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We're pleased to support the expansion of free childcare in England by Department for Education from today. Going forward, it's important there is more capacity in the system. When parents struggle to find a childcare solution, employers lose talented people from the workplace.👇

Justine Roberts, Chief Executive of Mumsnet shares her thoughts on our expansion of childcare for working parents of two-year-olds👇

Nice work! #WeAreSomerset

Nature has an amazingly regenerative property; it’s been a great comfort and inspiration to me especially when my husband was so ill and since he died.

#nature
#Inspiration

I spoke to The Sun recently about the simple tricks I uses to keep pests away from plants without using toxic chemicals. The RHS BBC Gardeners World Latoya

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In the latest episode of the Defra Farming Podcast, Animal Health and Welfare lead Martin Jenkins talks to dairy farmer Karen Halton and vet James Russell.

They discuss the support available to help farmers improve animal health and welfare. 🐄

#SFI

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It is so moving to read this article from my friend Rebecca Pow. She has coped with so much and her heartfelt dedication to nature is now helping many others navigate challenges. The benefits of nature are at the heart of Conservative values express.co.uk/news/uk/188454…