Most sheep are born with long tails that are docked at birth for sanitary reasons and to help prevent “fly strike”. Long tails often get covered in feces which attracts flies. Fly strike is ...

When the fly is up in Ireland, all the fishermen in Ireland rush to catch them with a technique called dapping.

Sometimes humorously, sometimes dramatically, these Nature Photography prize winning images are a stunning visual tribute to the beauty and fragility of our planet.

Welfare inspectors found dozens of dead sheep in Peter Valentine's six properties - and hundreds of others malnourished and hit by parasites and fly-strike. MPI says Valentine did little to manage a ...

It is essential for sheep health and welfare ... currently the only practical means of managing the serious negative health and welfare outcomes of fly-strike. However, docking should be considered a ...

Fears over rubbish in the streets and overflowing bins have become common across Birmingham amid the disruption caused by the current strike. But new figures have revealed that the Labour-run city ...

Flying away with top call of 7200gns at CCM Skipton’s live field-run working sheep dog sale on Friday was a rising two-year-old fully-broken black and white bitch, Fly, from top-of-his-game Welsh ...

Both the either-sex and ewe license have been reduced to one for the 2025 season. FWP notes unhealthy sheep were first reported in the hunting district in September 2024. The five ram license ...

New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong wildcat strike that crippled the state's correctional system, but said enough officers had come ...

The newly formed influential health sector professionals group, the Academy of Health Professionals (AHP), yesterday declared that its members would launch a 24-hour strike commencing from 7.00 am ...

A nationwide strike has brought air travel to a near standstill at 13 German airports, including the Frankfurt and Munich hubs. Trade union Verdi has called the strike over a wage dispute.