Good news, poultry farmers! ๐
As of noon today, all bird flu prevention zones in place across Great Britain have been lifted.
The measures were first introduced across the whole of England on December 13 2024โฏto prevent the spread ofโฏAvian Influenza.
UK Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss said:โฏ"The evidence clearly shows that the risk to poultry across Great Britain has reduced."
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The 9k homes mentioned by Rachel Reeves below were greenlit on the promise of a Cambridge Water Credits scheme that more than two years on is still being devised, and may never work as proposed. In any case, it and the Fen reservoir are only to cover growth in the local plan.
From a visit to the Olympic park in Stratford a couple of weeks ago. In some areas the Willows were entirely webbed, with caterpillars abseiling from upper branches. Freaky.
East Cambs planning c'tee have rejected Abbey Homes attempt to remove affordable housing from their previously approved site in Sutton.
The site should never have been allowed for development in the first place, hopefully this will kill it.
I would probably have run a woodscrew through the post to hold the rope in place as that's more tamper proof, but this is much more aesthetically pleasing.
We started watering the new saplings 2nd week of April - 5l of water each per week as that is our feasible limit. In the face of this ludicrous weather that isn't enough to stop some failures. We've now stopped as we've hit the point of diminishing returns. Fingers crossed.
Spring rainfall in Witchford from local PWS data, light blue LTA, dark blue 2025, orange 2026. We had a six week spell from late March where the total was less than 6mm.