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Government to issue complete ban on neonicotinoids in bid to protect bees

Wildlife campaigners hail decision urging Defra to introduce further bans

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The Government is to ban bee-harming neonicotinoids
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The Government is to ban bee-harming neonicotinoids

Bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides are to be banned in the UK, the Government has announced. The decision, according to Defra, will enable the Government to deliver on an ‘election commitment to safeguard bees,...

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