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British lamb and beef could be back on the American menu by next year. The US banned British red meat in 1997 following the BSE crisis. It's estimated that 177 people died from CJD - the human form of mad cow disease - after eating contaminated meat; The disease was thought to be spread through infected spine or brain used in animal feed, and so carcases have had to be split.

Well now the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has announced it'll be working on a consultation being run by the US department of agriculture which could see sheep farmers get access to a 拢35 million market.

A research project has found banned pesticides called neonicotinoids are inadvertently acting as contraceptives for honeybees that ingest them. The study, at the University of Bern in Switzerland, found a lower quality sperm in the effected drones.

Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Sally Challoner.