04/06/2010

The recent spate of wet summers has had an unpleasant effect on our beaches, pushing pollution from sewer and field into bathing waters. Mother Nature may have made the situation worse but is there more that farmers can do to stop livestock waste and fertiliser from washing off the land and onto our beaches? Caz Graham hears from the Marine Conservation Society and from one South Devon farmer about the difficulties of controlling coastal pollution in the British climate.

There's also news of plans for another 'super-dairy' in Lincolnshire. Are enormous dairy farms an inevitable advance or will local opposition prove decisive?