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Prime Minister announces £7 billion food growth plan
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By summer 2016, farmers will only have to deal with one Single Farm Inspection Taskforce.
20,000 fewer farm inspections

David Cameron has announced a series of proposals to 'cut red tape' for British farmers, including 20,000 fewer farm inspections and a new single Farm Inspection Taskforce.

The Prime Minister introduced his plans to boost productivity and grow food and farming during a visit to the Royal Welsh Show in Powys.

Under existing inspection regimes, seven regulators carry out over 125,000 farm inspections every year to England's 250,000 farms. The government say that streamlining the process and making better use of the technology and data, will radically reduce the number of inspections.

By summer 2016, farmers will only have to deal with one Single Farm Inspection Taskforce, which will combine farm visits with mandatory checks. The Task Force will use the latest technology to streamline the approach to inspections - for example, using satellite data to analyse different crop types in fields.

It is hoped that the changes will create over £7 billion worth of new opportunities to grow food and drink exports from the whole of the UK, to countries outside of the EU. This would create more rural jobs, bringing greater investment to local communities and grow Britain's economy.

In a statement David Cameron said:  "I am very pleased to be at the Royal Welsh Show today to see the best in livestock, food and drink Wales has to offer.

"Farming and food production are a fundamental part of our rural economy. As a one nation government, we will keep on backing British farmers to grow and sell more home-grown food by liberating them from red tape and opening up new multi-million pound export markets.

"I hope that the Welsh government also looks to do more to simplify inspections to benefit the industry and rural communities."

Other proposals announced by the Prime Minister include increasing Protected Food Names - such as Carmarthen Ham and Welsh Laverbread - and the creation of a new UK-wide Food Innovation Network. 

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RCVS Knowledge appoints Veterinary Evidence editor-in-chief

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 RCVS Knowledge has welcomed Professor Peter Cockcroft as editor-in-chief for Veterinary Evidence.

A world-renowned expert in evidence-based veterinary medicine, Prof Cockcroft will lead the strategic development and editorial quality of the open-access journal. He was previously in the role from 2017-2020.

Katie Mantell, CEO of RCVS Knowledge, said: "We are excited about the extensive knowledge of evidence-based veterinary medicine and clinical veterinary research that Peter brings, and we look forward to working with him over this next phase of the journal's development." 

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CVS Group hit by cyber attack

CVS Group, which owns more than 450 veterinary practices in the UK, has been hit by a cyber attack.

In a statement, the group said the incident involved unauthorised external access to a limited number of its IT systems. As soon as the attack was discovered, the group took its IT systems temporarily offline, causing 'considerable operational disruption'.

It has warned that the security steps taken and ongoing plans to move its operational systems and IT infrastructure to the Cloud are likely to have an ongoing impact over a number of weeks.

Due to the risk that personal information was accessed, CVS has informed the Information Commissioner's Office. The company is working with third party consultants to investigate the incident.