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Today's Election Polls......
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ICM/Guardian
YouGov/Sun
Tories 34% Lib Dem 29% Labour 28%
Mail on Sunday
Tories 34% Lib Dem 30% Labour 27%
Tories 34% Lib Dem 30% Labour 27%
Sunday Telegraph
Tories 36% Labour 29% Lib Dem 27%
Tories 36% Labour 29% Lib Dem 27%
News Of The World
Tories 35% Labour 35% Lib Dem 22%
Tories 35% Labour 35% Lib Dem 22%
Sunday Times
Tories 35% Lib Dem 28% Labour 27%
Tories 35% Lib Dem 28% Labour 27%
Sunday Mirror
Tories 38% Labour 28% Lib Dem 25%
Tories 38% Labour 28% Lib Dem 25%
Sunday Express
Tories 35% Lib Dem 29%; Labour 23%
Tories 35% Lib Dem 29%; Labour 23%
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1271379/General-Election-2010-Vote-Lib-Dem-stop-Tories-winning-says-Ed-Balls-new-poll-puts-Cameron-course-victory.html?ITO=1708&referrer=yahoo#ixzz0mtO6bmH7
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Plans knocked back........
An 8100-cow "super dairy" planned for Lincolnshire is unlikely to get the go-ahead this year, it has emerged.
Nocton Dairies, the company behind the scheme, has withdrawn its planning application to establish the dairy herd south of Lincoln. But it is expected the application will be re-submitted at a later date.
The application was withdrawn after planners at North Kesteven District Council asked the company to address some areas of concern.
It means the dairy is unlikely to start milking this autumn as planned.
Milk output from the £50m farm would have reached 250,000 litres daily should it have been granted the go-ahead.
A decision was expected early next month.
But planners and the Environment Agency are believed to have asked for further details about waste management.
Local residents have raised concerns about noise, smells and slurry disposal. Nocton Parish Council had voted against the super dairy.
But Nocton Dairies had insisted the farm would be largely odourless.
It planned to use an anaerobic digester to separate slurry into odour-free solid and liquid portions before using it as fertiliser.
Animal welfare campaigners, who had mounted a stiff campaign against the farm, will welcome the withdrawal of the planning application.
But Nocton Dairies insisted the withdrawal of the application was not down to opposition or pressure from animal rights activists.
North Kesteven council said complaints on animal welfare grounds would not have been a valid reason for refusing the application.
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FORTY MPs have so far lodged their opposition to the proposed 8,100-cow super-dairy near Nocton.
As reported in the Echo, Nocton Dairies Ltd is hoping to have the facility up and running by the end of this year.
More than 250,000 litres of milk would be produced daily at the dairy, set to be built on land to the west of the B1188 at Nocton behind Dunston quarry, and 80-plus jobs would be created.
Carlisle MP and chairman of the Associate Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare, Eric Martlew, has now raised an early day motion calling for a debate in the House of Commons.
By midday yesterday, 40 MPs had signed the motion that "this House is firmly opposed" to the proposed facility.
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The motion argues that breeding cows for high milk yield is the major factor causing poor welfare and urges retailers and producers of dairy products not to source milk from such large-scale intensive dairy units where cows receive only minimal grazing.
"I think the way this dairy will be stopped is if the big supermarkets say they don't want milk obtained from this sort of process, not because of planning issues," Mr Martlew told the Echo.
Nocton Dairies Ltd is owned by a group of farmers led by Peter Willes, of Parkham Farms Ltd, North Devon, who have 2,000 cows both in Devon and in Clitheroe, Lancashire.
David Barnes manages the herd in Clitheroe and Robert Howard, a farmer in Nocton, is also involved in the project.
Residents of Nocton and surrounding villages are concerned about possible pollution, traffic and environmental damage.
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