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Local Cheshire-based cheesemaker, Joseph Heler, beat Yorkshire cheese producers at the Great Yorkshire Show with its Wensleydale cheese.

An investigation is to be launced by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) after a British dairy farmer has claimed that supermarkets are selling milk from cloned cows.

Data from Defra show that the production of red meat and offal increased by 5% iin the first half of 2010 compared to last year.

Latest official figures show that the number of cattle slaughtered because of bovine TB fell by 25% over the first three months of this year to just over 9,000.  The drop was not consistent ac