Wfu Joins the Plea to End Menace of Chinese Lanterns

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The Women's Farming Union has joined the campaign to ban Chinese lanterns ahead of what farmers are warning could be a nightmare week- end.

Despite pleas from farming organisations, thousands of lanterns are expected to be launched during bonfire night celebrations, putting livestock and farm buildings at risk. The lanterns - hot air balloons carried aloft by a tiny burning fuel cell - have already been blamed for a number of fires. Livestock have also been killed as a result of the wire frames falling into forage crops and ending up being eaten.

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Wfu Joins the Plea to End Menace of Chinese Lanterns

But despite the fact that farming minister Jim Paice MP says Defra is collating evidence on the...

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