内容摘要：The government has been considering options for its high-containment laboratories and whether building a new one is still viable.

The government has been considering options for its high-containment laboratories and whether building a new one is still viable.

, while a housing order imposed to protect the commercial poultry industry fromcontinues to cause stress for farming families.

Despite prices for commodities like beef and milk remaining high, it all makes for a less-than-positive backdrop to a highlight in the farming calendar.For Cormac McKervey, head of agriculture at Ulster Bank, the show has a role to play in connecting farmers with the public they serve."It lets them understand and know that what we're doing is good, it's wholesome, it's natural food."

But agriculture is still Northern Ireland's largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.And reducing that is a challenge that Mr McKervey says is on the minds of farmers.

"Farming does produce a lot of carbon emissions, but equally, farming has some fantastic solutions in terms of absorbing that carbon into the soil," he said.

"And I think the conversation has widened, that it's not just purely carbon anymore, it's that wider piece about sustainability on the farm, both economically and environmentally.The group are set to headline Latitude Festival in what will be their "sole UK performance" of the summer in July.

An off-duty police officer has died after she was struck by a lorry while helping at the scene of an earlier crash.PC Rosie Prior, 45, had stopped to help Ryan Welford, 41, from Knaresborough, and was standing on the verge of the A19 at Bagby in North Yorkshire, when they were hit by a lorry at 08:55 GMT on Saturday.

They died at the scene. A teenage boy who was a passenger in Mr Welford's car is in a serious but stable condition in hospital.A 65-year-old lorry driver from Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and has been released under investigation.