New profile of the home-grown terrorist emerges
The News Review:
- New profile of the home-grown terrorist emerges
- Home-Grown Cereals Authority Appointments.
- Home Grown Terrorists? Ann?
- Strawberry fields forever? The polytunnel debate
- Britain’s first olive grove is a sign of our hotter times
New profile of the home-grown terrorist emerges
Christian Science Monitor – Jun 26, 2006
The June 22 arrests of six men in Miami and one in Atlanta for plotting to destroy Chicago’s Sears Tower and public buildings elsewhere provide the latest case in point. The band of alleged terrorists – which the government says pledged fealty to Al Qaeda but had no actual contact with it – has been characterized as “homegrown” because five of the suspects are US citizens.
Home-Grown Cereals Authority Appointments.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 26, 2006
–> COPYRIGHT 2006 Financial Times Ltd. The new appointment is Edward Wright, the Chairman of the British Poultry Council. The re-appointments are Douglas Morrison, a farmer, first appointed in 2000;.
Home Grown Terrorists? Ann?
BuzzFlash – Jun 26, 2006
First, I suppose, is to point out that 2 of the 7 were from Haiti;, the remainder were 5 poor U. At the time of their arrest they had no weapons, no explosives, and no money.
Strawberry fields forever? The polytunnel debate
The Independent – Independent – Jun 26, 2006
They are in good company, for demand for strawberries is growing. The strawberry certainly has a good press. Public and politicians usually agree that it is an unmistakable treat, frequently home-grown, rich in vitamins and antioxidants. It is reckoned that five strawberries contain more antioxidant power than three apples or four bananas. And the British strawberry business is worth about £157m a year. Yet there are rumblings of discontent in the countryside about this most English of summer fruits, and the insurrection has reached the benches of the Commons chamber itself. Motions have been laid, speeches made and questions asked about something which is, unusually in the world of politics, transparent: polytunnels.
Britain’s first olive grove is a sign of our hotter times
The Independent – Independent – Jun 26, 2006
Several studies have suggested that, in decades to come, olives, vines and other warm-climate plants will be likely to flourish in a substantially warmer Britain. Now a Devon smallholder has taken the plunge and, in partnership with an Italian olive specialist, planted a grove of 120 olive trees on the banks of the river Otter near Honiton. Mark Diacono, who is establishing a “climate change farm” on his land, intends his olives to be a commercial crop which will produce Britain’s first home-grown olive oil, in five to seven years. He has planted them in co-operation with an Italian gardener living in England, Emilio Ciacci, who has provided the trees from the hills near his home at Maremma, Tuscany. A 39-year-old environmental consultant, Mr Diacono has no doubt that UK temperatures are becoming suitable for olive cultivation. “There’s no question that the climate is going to get there,” he said. “It’s just, have I done this 10 years too early or 20 years too early?”But I don’t think so… “In a few years’ time, the trees on Mark’s land will look like a Mediterranean olive grove,” said Ms Yorke, who with Mr Ciacci is starting a business based in Sherborne, Dorset, under the name Tuscan Trees, to try to promote olive groves across southern England. “We want to be able to repeat what we have done with Mark with other people,” she said. “We think there is now a real opportunity for olives to be grown commercially in Britain.