Article: Government's policy on Bovine TB 'stinks' ; Iseem to have got myself into deep manure with our Dutch friends over a press release I put out on the spur of the moment on Friday.

Iseem to have got myself into deep manure with our Dutch friends over a press release I put out on the spur of the moment on Friday.

The radio news bulletins that morning had been full of reports of a noxious smell wafting over much of South-East England.

Given that the wind was strongly from the east, I reached what I thought was the reasonable conclusion that the pong was probably the result of the winter slurry spreading embargo in the Netherlands being lifted, and the farmers there emptying their slurry stores all at once.

This was, I warned, a whiff of what could become a regular feature of an English spring, if the Government presses ahead with its ill-conceived plans to impose a ...