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A group of farmers are seeking a judicial review over the decision to re-impose inheritance tax on some farm businesses. The as yet unamed farmers are challenging what they say is a lack of Government consultation on the changes. As we've reported farmers around the country have held protests over the government's decision to introduce new rules on Agricultural and Business Property Relief from next April. They say making farms liable to twenty per cent tax over assets of one million pounds when they pass from one generation to the next will put some out of business. Ministers say the tax is fair - and that farmers can spread the payments over 10 years.

Work has begun to clear more than 30,000 tonnes of illegally dumped waste from a Kent woodland, in an operation led by the Environment Agency.
We've followed the saga of the waste dumped on this protected site for some time - it's now estimated the clean-up of Hoads Wood near Ashford will take more than a year and cost around 拢15m. The Environment Agency says the wood was used by criminal gangs to dump household and construction waste over a six month period in 2023. Investigations are ongoing into who is responsible.

Artitficial Intelligence is starting to be used in weather forecasting. It's hoped it will reduce the need for enormous, energy-guzzling super-computers that are currently used, though experts say that could be some time off.

And we meet two more students hoping for a career in agriculture - this time from Brooksby Campus in Leicestershire.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally Challoner