It was something of an eye-opener to see so many farmers and their friends far from the fields converging on Westminster in ...

Happy BHP day! From midnight tonight, the Australian miner is free under UK market rules to make another bid for Anglo American, after the latter spurned a complex £39bn all-share offer in May.

Farmers are protesting in central London over changes to inheritance tax that will see death duties payable by some farmers on agricultural and business property. The Treasury estimates the ...

Dozens of farmers have staged a go-slow tractor protest on the roads of Dover over changes to inheritance tax. The protestors called on the government to “stop betraying” British farming and ...

Therefore, the Anglo-Saxon elite is silent for the third day, and the whole world is watching with interest — well, what?! The Russians openly said: we have you at gunpoint and there is no protection ...

The underdog in Anglo American’s $US3 billion ($4.6 billion) Queensland coal auction has pulled to the front of the pack, as the London-listed miner races against ...

On 7 November, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development published its producer support estimates, highlighting the extent to which Indian government policies taxed farmers. Just four ...

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The farmers' demonstration was best summed up in two images: real tractors being driven by farmers around Parliament Square, and beside them a collection of toy tractors being pedalled around by ...

Thousands of disgruntled British farmers marched on London on Tuesday in protest at government plans to change the law regarding the amount of inheritance tax farmers should pay. The ...

Wheat harvest set to drop to 83 mln tons from 92.8 mln in 2023 Profitability of grain crops is approaching zero - Rostagro CEO Some farmers ponder a change of strategy towards "niche" crops MOSCOW ...

Nigel Farage has urged farmers to stage protests in Labour-held rural constituencies. The Reform UK leader insisted he believes that "something can be done" about the Government's inheritance tax ...