The Latest Breaking News from Defra

Knock-on effect of rising gas prices, exacerbated by war in Ukraine, adding to cost of living crisis in UK

Produce has gone unpicked after EU migrant workers stayed away

Advice issued by DEFRA suggests adults and children with lung problems, and adults with heart problems, should 'reduce strenuous physical exertion, particularly outdoors'

Defra has issued health advice recommending people with heart and lung problems to reduce physical exertion.

Difficulties in obtaining blood tests and paperwork when fleeing war mean some animals could spend four months in quarantine

There have been confirmed cases of bird flu in Scotland and across the UK. As a result, free-range eggs have been removed from the shelves and shops will no longer be allowed to sell them. Here's what you need to know and which areas in Scotland have been affected.

People buying free-range eggs across the UK have actually been buying eggs from chickens kept in barns since November, DEFRA says. An outbreak of avian flu means all birds have had to be kept indoors since the end of last year. DEFRA says there is n

Government backs down from guidance that would have allowed birds such as crows to be shot

‘It is not expecting to achieve the amount of new tree-planting in 2021-22 that it set out to,’ head of National Audit Office says

Michael Dawson was fined after a search warrant was executed by Defra who found illegal veterinary medicines

Defra report blamed algal blooms but independent research points to chemical released from sediments