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The pro-organic charity The Soil Association has described as a 'Red Herring' claims that the UK will need to grow genetically modified crops if we're to feed a growing global population. Chief Executive Helen Browning said GM technology only allowed farmers to use specific pesticides, but didn't increase crop yields. She was talking after the former head of Greenpeace, Stephen Tindale, said it was now 'immoral' not to grow GM crops.

The Devon Wildlife Trust is taking the local county council to court over its approval for 230 homes to be built near a bat roost in Chudleigh, Devon. The Trust says the greater horseshoe bat is very rare, with just 6,000 left in the UK. The last remaining stronghold is in Devon, and inappropriate developments can disrupt their feeding and flight paths. The Judicial Review is being held in Bristol.

And we meet the editor and agricultural advisor for 麻豆社 Radio 4's The Archers and ask, has the programme returned to its agricultural roots?

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