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Beemergency!

Published Jun 3, 2008

Daily Mail Article

Nothing better illustrates the folly of this Government than the clumsy and ignorant way it has casually slashed the tiny budget supporting research into one of Nature’s most useful creatures: the bee. Author Vince Cable

Beekeeper Steven Turner
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