This just in from BBC News…
“A campaigner has won a legal victory in a long-running battle with the [UK] government over the use of pesticides.
A High Court judge ruled Georgina Downs, who lives near Chichester, West Sussex, had produced “solid evidence” that residents had suffered harm.
Mr Justice Collins said a European order aimed at defending rural dwellers from possible exposure to toxins during crop-spraying had not been followed. Ms Downs said the government “should now admit that it got it wrong”.
“People move to the countryside thinking it will be a healthy environment to bring up their children and do not know about the dangers and risks inherent in the spraying of poisonous chemicals on surrounding fields, until they themselves suffer adverse effects on their health” Georgina Downs, UK Pesticides Campaign
Ms Downs, who lives on the edge of farm fields, launched her independent UK Pesticides Campaign in 2001. On Friday, the judge granted her application for judicial review of the policy of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).”
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That’s great news! Well done to Georgina, she’s campaigned hard for this and deserves a victory. As an asthma sufferer myself I know how pesticide spraying can affect people’s health. Now the countryside might be a safer place for people and wildlife.