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Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Safety leaflet on topical corticosteroids and withdrawal reactions to help patients and their carers to use these medicines safely.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
How to apply for a licence from Defra to burn heather or grass on peat deeper than 30cm within a less favoured area.
Patients will receive faster diagnosis, quicker treatment and the support to live well with cancer under the government’s landmark new National Cancer Plan.
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