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Here we go again... On Radio 4's Farming Today this morning David Heath (defra minister) claimed that he shut down NED because it was not fit for purpose as a food dafety check. No, they shut it down BEFORE the horsemeat scandle as part of a quango centred cost reducing exercise which the...

Here we go again... On Radio 4's Farming Today this morning David Heath (defra minister) claimed that he shut down NED because it was not fit for purpose as a food dafety check. No, they shut it down BEFORE the horsemeat scandle as part of a quango centred cost reducing exercise which the...

Possibly not on imported horsemeat per se but it certainly does have a very direct effect on exported and home-bred horse meat. This is becuase until NED ceaased to be, it was a legal requirement that all deaths of horses had to be notified to NED either via the PIOs of the horses concerned or...

When will Owen Paterson and DEFRA accept that the cheeap jack cancellation last SEptember of NED (all to save £250000 a year and a doctrinaire bid to get rid of another so-called QUANGO) was key factor in the development of the currrent horsermeat scandal? With no effective paper trail for dead...

When will Owen Paterson and DEFRA accept that the cheeap jack cancellation last SEptember of NED (all to save £250000 a year and a doctrinaire bid to get rid of another so-called QUANGO) was key factor in the development of the currrent horsermeat scandal? With no effective paper trail for dead...

Just to clarify I was at the WHIRDEC meeting on the Sunday representing the WBSUK and John was there representing BHHS. Jan was there representing the BEF (who are entitled to attend as a national federation (FN)) and Susan Attew was there representing both the Trakehner Verband and Trakehners...

Actually I was there covering it for The British Breeder (Cat Wood was ill) as well as for Breeding News for Sports Horses (and WBSUK of course) and Carole Mortimer was there covering it for Horse International (and hopefully H&H if they give her some space in a future Sportshorse column)...

The proceedings of the 2012 General Assembly of the WBFSH and presentations made during it are now available on the WBFSH web site http://www.wbfsh.org/GB/General%20Assembly/General%20Assembly%202012.aspx A fascinating and very informative event, held for the first time in the UK and...

Just one point to bear in mind though, the KWPN does not recognsie the AES (or any other UK studbook for that matter for registration or gradng purposes apart from BHHS as a daughter studbook of the Hannoverian Verband) so if you try to regsiter thr foal with the KWPN instead of SHBGB (not that...

Up until the web site was taken down over the weekend, 2 full time and 1 1/2 time member of staff. The office was at Stoneleigh but staff also had the facility to access the system from remote locations where possible. Much of the time was spent chasing PIOs (DEFRA-approved Passport Issuing...

Bearing in mind the govts total inability to do the costings and risk inflation assessments on the West Coast Mainline refranchise, can we believe that the cost evaluation that 'proved' that the continuing cost of £175000 per annum for running NED as a biosecurity operation was unsupportable is...

Bearing in mind the govts total inability to do the costings and risk inflation assessments on the West Coast Mainline refranchise, can we believe that the cost evaluation that 'proved' that the continuing cost of £175000 per annum for running NED as a biosecurity operation was unsupportable is...

Bearing in mind the govts total inability to do the costings and risk inflation assessments on the West Coast Mainline refranchise, can we believe that the cost evaluation that 'proved' that the continuing cost of £175000 per annum for running NED as a biosecurity operation was unsupportable is...

This is the e-mail that I sent Dear David Heath and Owen Paterson As a member of the DEFRA Equine Experts Group and a winner of the BEF / SEIB Meritoire Award for outstanding service to British breeding who has supported Ned from its very beginning and been involved in many of its...

This is the e-mail that I sent Dear David Heath and Owen Paterson As a member of the DEFRA Equine Experts Group and a winner of the BEF / SEIB Meritoire Award for outstanding service to British breeding who has supported Ned from its very beginning and been involved in many of its...