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Firefighters are reminding the public to take steps to prevent rural fires this summer, as a new report highlights the growing threat of hot dry summers.

“Farmland should be farmland,” said the majority of the Newark residents, while others agreed with plans for one of Britain’s biggest solar farms to be built in East Midlands. 

Hundreds of thousands of rural homes and businesses will receive major internet speed upgrade as part of an £800 million fund launched by the new government. 

Telecommunications operators have been told they must increase the rent they pay landowners for rural mast agreements by more than 130%. 

Police in Northern Ireland have launched an investigation into the death of a farmer and “much loved father of three” who died in a farm accident, following two other farm deaths over the past month. 

The next generation of farmers will be at the heart of this year’s Dairy Show, with a full schedule of competitions and seminars focused on building a bright future for the dairy industry. 

Plans to build a solar farm the size of 86 football pitches on high-grade farmland in Kent have been rejected. 

Local farmers joined firefighters to extinguish a blaze in a field in Essex. 

Cornish farmer Andrea Semmens has been named the Calf Rearer of the Year at the National Youngstock Conference, held in Devon. 

Ice cream has taken a large scoop out of the UK dairy retail market, with spend on ice cream growing by 6.9% in the last year, AHDB said. 

Agricultural insurer, Acres Insurance Brokers, is warning farmers to check their staff’s operator licences when running farm machinery during the harvest period. 

Hertfordshire farmer Geoff Simms has fallen victim to rural crime after thieves ripped the GPS dome from the roof of his John Deere tractor.