10.03.2004 |

UK: tentative go-ahead for GMs

UK ministers say GM crops can - on certain conditions - now be grown commercially in Britain.The Environment Secretary, Margaret Beckett, told Parliament ministers had agreed in principle to the growing of a single variety of GM maize in England.</p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3546347.stm">BBC</a></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/scotland/3545825.stm">Scottish executive backs GM growing</a></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/wales/3545447.stm">Wales refuses GM agreement</a>