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The Government has announced plans to overhaul the country's farming industry by introducing environmental incentives which will replace the costly EU subsidies after Brexit.   In the biggest change to farming in more than 50 years, the subsidies will be phased out and replaced with payments to protect the environment and introducing more sustainable farming practices. The Government says the plan is to deliver 'a better, fairer farming system in England' which will transform the way farmers are supported over a seven-year period. Under the new scheme, farmers will be rewarded for environmental measures such as restoring habitats, producing free-range eggs and minimising animal suffering. This will replace the EU's Common Agricultural Policy which sees farmers paid subsidies in accordance with how much land they own.  Environment Secretary George Eustice will spell out today how the subsidies will be cut from next year and will be gone by 2028. The National Farmers'

The jury in the rape trial of Jack de Belin have been unable to reach a verdict after two days of deliberations.  The NRL star and his co-accused Callan Sinclair pleaded not guilty to raping a 19-year-old woman a Wollongong apartment in 2018. After retiring on Thursday afternoon, the jury returned to court on Monday morning with a note that 'we have unable to reach a unanimous verdict'.  More to come . 

Eton last night defended its decision to sack an English teacher following a dispute over a lecture. A freedom of speech row erupted at the elite £42,500-a-year school after pupils revolted following the sacking of Will Knowland. More than 1,000 children have so far signed a petition calling for his reinstatement amid claims he was subject to the ultimate censorship over the planned lecture in which he was due to question 'current radical feminist orthodoxy'. A freedom of speech row erupted at the elite £42,500-a-year school after pupils revolted following the sacking of Will Knowland The lecture was posted on Mr Knowland's personal YouTube channel, but not delivered to pupils as he intended. Addressing the issue for the first time, Eton provost Lord Waldegrave, who is chairman of the school's governing body, said matters had been distorted, insisting: 'Eton will never cancel debate.' The former Tory Cabinet minister defended the 580-year-old school's record

A seven month search for a missing mother-of-four has become a homicide investigation after police received information indicating she was murdered. Kobie Parfitt , 43, is believed to have been murdered on April 28 - the last day police believe she was last seen alive Detectives have stepped up their investigation in the suspicious disappearance of Victorian woman Kobie Parfitt, with murder cops now being drafted in. Ms Parfitt's mother Kathy Snowball made an impassioned plea for information from the public last Sunday about the whereabouts of her daughter, leading to a tip-off to police.  Based on the information, detectives now believe the 43-year-old was last seen alive at a property on Hickman Street in Ballarat, 115km northwest of Melbourne, on April 28. Police also believe that was the same day she was murdered.  Neither her phone or bank accounts have been accessed since. Ms Parfitt, who is also a grandmother-of three, had become estranged from her family. She was living in

The British actor who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy died from corona­virus, his daughter has said. David Prowse, a former bodybuilder, was best known for playing the iconic super-villain in the original three George Lucas movies. The Bristol-born star, who towered over cast members at 6ft 6ins, had been in a London hospital for two weeks with Covid. He was 85. Paying tribute, his daughter Rachel, 50, said: 'He might have looked quite scary but as a person he was a sweet, kind and generous man. He really was a gentle giant. And to us he was our dad.' She added: 'It’s horrible that Covid restrictions meant we did not get to see him and say goodbye. But when we went to collect his stuff from the hospital the nurse said what a cool guy he was. 'He was such a larger-than-life character. He would have loved to see himself trending on Twitter.' Rachel, of Croydon, South London, also confirmed that David had previously been diagnosed with Alzheimer