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Well-known farm safety expert wins major award 17 February 2021 | Brian Rees has spent more than 35 years raising farm safety awareness A well-known farm safety expert has been awarded one of Welsh farming's most prestigious awards, the Lantra Wales Lifetime Achievement Award. Brian Rees has spent more than 35 years raising awareness of what is widely acknowledged as a poor safety record within the UK agriculture industry. He was born into a farming family, leaving school in his teens to work alongside his parents and older brother who reared beef, sheep and pigs at Penbryncenau. By the age ...

Speedway: Warriors win first race at ENZED Superstock Teams Champs since 2015 8 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read Warriors debutant Dylan Marshall (57V) eliminates teams racing superstar Peter Rees (10G). Photo / Go Slideways Warriors debutant Dylan Marshall (57V) eliminates teams racing superstar Peter Rees (10G). Photo / Go Slideways Whanganui Chronicle The Wanganui Warriors Superstock team took a major step forward at Palmerston North over the weekend. Competing at the ENZED Superstock Teams Champs, the Warriors recorded their first race win at the event since 2015, qualifying for the s...

Noughts and crosses Inefficiencies in public procurement have become a hot topic in recent years, which is why one of my hacks thought he was on to a winner of a headline after he spotted that the value of a planned construction services framework from the Crown Commercial Service had ballooned from £1.5bn to £8bn in the space of five months. The 430% rise proved to be a dead end, however, when a spokesperson clarified that the number was a typo and should have read £8m, not £8bn. Unfortunately, that was also a typo, as the actual value turned out to be £800m. A few harmless, misplaced ...

Tall buildings policies can do without political hypocrisy How does housing secretary Robert Jenrick square his new-found enthusiasm for toughening up London’s tall buildings policy with his unlawful approval of Richard Desmond’s Westferry Printworks scheme? asks Paul Finch London Mayor Sadiq Khan has modified the draft London Plan to declare that boroughs ought to identify sites where tall buildings would be acceptable, the implication being that they would not be acceptable anywhere else. This follows an intervention by secretary of state Robert Jenrick to toughen up what, suddenly, ar...

peter paltridge/go slideways photography Jake Baker, photographed in Palmerston North in January, will race his superstock throughout New Zealand to help with his fundraising drive. “She’s really well. She’s participating in ballet and swimming and she, with her sister Amelia, were in the DanceWorks​ Regent production a couple of weeks ago,” Jake said.​ Evalina’s clean bill of health has let Jake return to racing superstocks after a couple of seasons off. He has more than podium places on his mind and is determined to meet a goal he set more than four years ago of raising $50,...