5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (631+ words) Restriction measures put in place in south-west Scotland in a bid to stop the spread of bluetongue between farms are set to continue. The Scottish government has announced a temporary control zone covering much of Dumfries and Galloway will join…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (475+ words) Politicians have called for a bluetongue taskforce to be created after hearing of issues faced by farmers. Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, called for action while meeting Cumbrian farmers with MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale Tim Farron. The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (486+ words) The governor of the Bank of England has warned G20 finance ministers that artificial intelligence could cause a global economic downturn and pose a significant cyber security risk to financial systems. Andrew Bailey said any collapse of growth in the AI…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (19+ words) 'I feel guilty': Farmer on Scotland's first bluetongue case BBC 'I feel guilty': Farmer on Scotland's first bluetongue case...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (474+ words) The organisers of historic sheepdog trials have cancelled their upcoming event due to an outbreak of bluetongue virus. Dovedale Sheepdog Trials - which organisers say began in 1891 - draws more than 2,000 spectators to Derbyshire each year and had 80 participants prepared to participate…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (909+ words) Earlier this year, farmer Fiona Johnson moved her family 350 miles north from a small village in Bedfordshire to the coast of south west Scotland, hoping to start afresh. She had no livestock, just "dogs and children". Four months later, having…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (780+ words) The destruction of 40 logbooks potentially relating to disgraced surgeon Sam Eljamel was the result of "inadequate systems and processes" rather than deliberate wrongdoing, a report has found. Eljamel, who was head of neurosurgery at Dundee's Ninewells Hospital until his suspension…...