Environment Department closes sustainable farming incentive (SFI) that pays farmers in England for 'public goods' like insecticide-free farming, wildflower strips and managing ponds.
The huge marquee for VIP nuclear guests was already erected at the Hinkley site; champagne was already on ice; VIPs were en route to Somerset to party at the final breakthrough, when hundreds of thousands of contractual pages were due to be authorised with co-signatures of the contracting parties. Suddenly, everything was off. So what really happened asks DAVID LOWRY