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- The Yorkshire Post - (20.10.10) - Malton based couple James and Lucy Haxton ‘adopt a business’ as pig pioneer moves on. Read more here
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- Commission for Rural Communities- (10.03.10) - Yorkshire Meats worked on a project with the CRC to tackle rural disadvantage. Read more here
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- The Guardian - (07.05.09) - Duncan Turnbull wrote a piece for The Guardian about the Swine Flu crisis and its repercussions for the pig industry. Read more here
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- The Times - (12.04.09) - Celebrity chef Allegra McEvedy, in a Q+A session with Style Magazine cited Adopt-a-Pig as her favourite foody website. Read more here
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- UKTV Food - (20.11.08) - With presenters Tom Parker-Bowles and Matthew Fort Yorkshire Meats was featured and Duncan interviewed as part of an programme on pork.
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- THE GUARDIAN - (30.10.08) - On his return from Salone del Gusto Duncan was commissioned to write a Comment Piece for the Guardian’s renowned ‘Comment is Free’ section, detailing his outspoken views on organic food. Read it with reader comments here.
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- THE TELEGRAPH - (06.06.08) - Following a gala meal in Oxford, the Telegraph’s Enterprise Editor Richard Tyler wrote a blog about entrepreneurship and investment which featured adopt-a-pig. Here
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- CHERWELL - (02.05.08) - Article in the Oxford Student ‘Cherwell’ about Duncan’s shortlisting for the Yorkshire Rural Awards. Click here.
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- THE GUARDIAN - (05.03.08) - On March 5th hundreds of pig farmers marched outside Westminster to highlight the difficulties they faced. To recognise this, Duncan was asked to write a Comment Piece for the Guardian’s renowned ‘Comment is Free’ section. You can find it with the responses it attracted here.
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- THE TIMES - (01.12.07) - With a 3 page photo spread, the adopt-a-pig scheme was featured as one of the UK’s best young food ideas, ideal as a present for the discerning public. Click here.
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- BBC4 FARMING TODAY - (18.08.07) - Yorkshire Meats saw its radio debut talking more abut the adoption scheme and how popular it had become across the country.
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- ITV YORKSHIRE AND THE NORTH EAST - (14.06.07) TV News item at 6.00) - This piece saw the reporter interview one of our local pig adopters (Nicola) and her daughter. Nicola was given the adoption as a present and in her interview she explained why the scheme has been a success for her family.
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THE DARLINGTON & STOCKTON TIMES (May 6th 2007)- The news of the expansion of the adopt-a-pig scheme to the national scale prompted this article in this regional broadsheet newspaper. Click here
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THE DALESMAN (May 2007)- This best-selling regional magazine featured us on the cover and an extensive article about the adopt-a-pig scheme which is now expanding across the length and breadth of them UK. Link to follow shortly
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THE NORTHERN ECHO (May 4th 2007)- As part of our adopt-a-pig expansion program, the Northern Echo ran a piece about the benefits of following your food from field to fork and how other farms can join the scheme also. Click here
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (March 28th 2007)- Another Telegraph article featuring the innovative adopt-a-pig scheme and the importance of education children about the origin of their food. Click here
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THE SATURDAY TIMES (March 17th 2007)- In the article written by the Times’ Food Detective, our adopt-a-pig scheme was featured alongside other top names on where the best places in the country are to buy top pork. Click here
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ITV YORKSHIRE AND THE NORTH EAST)- (TV News item at 6.00) - Featuring our innovative adopt-a-pig scheme, our rare-breed pictures were beamed into the homes of over 800,000. Reported Jon Hill visited with an ITV filming crew and by the end of the day produced a fabulous 4 minute feature which aimed to highlight the importance of food provenance.
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - (Front page of food & drink) - (November 2006)- When a freelance journalist spotted a previous Yorkshire Meats article, she thought it would make the perfect story for the Telegraph. This article concentrates on the adopt-a-pig scheme and how this is becoming increasingly popular across the UK. It explains how the scheme works and the importance of the rare breeds which it helps to save. Click here
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METRO NATIONAL NEWSPAPER (December 5th 2006)- Having been featured in other national publications, the Metro chose Yorkshire Meats to stand alongside an article about an unfortunate pair of turkeys... Click here
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FLICKR - photo sharing site (December 2006)- Featuring our one and only ‘curious pig’, the cute Oxford Sandy & Black piglet photographed by a professional agency Click here
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