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The cost of attacks on livestock by out-of-control dogs has more than doubled in Wales in the past year. The insurer NFU Mutual has put the price at around 拢285,000 -- a rise of 113%. This is a particularly challenging time during lambing season, when there are more vulnerable young stock out in the fields. In the past few days, 20 sheep were killed following three dog attacks in two days on Anglesey and in Denbighshire, prompting calls for a change in the law to give police greater powers to prosecute.

Farmers facing on going hardship following last summer's dry weather are being offered financial support by the Welsh government. Many experienced soaring costs as the prolonged heat wave meant they had to buy in additional feed to keep their animals alive. One -off grants of up to 拢3,000 are being distributed by RABI - the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution.

More than 100 Welsh food and drink producers and 200 buyers from around the world have been at Celtic Manor in Newport for Taste Wales -- the annual showcase which helps identify new trading opportunities.听The minister for Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths, made a major announcement at the event, saying 22-million pounds would be available for the food and drink industry to help the sector thrive after Wales, and the rest of the UK, leaves the European Union.

People who have听moved from a city to live in the Welsh countryside knows it can throw up its own unique set of problems, but imagine uprooting from the other side of the Atlantic. That's what happened to the Reverend Alexis Smith, who was so taken with Wales that she swapped Greensboro, North Carolina, for the old county of Montgomeryshire, where she's now priest-in-charge of six rural parishes.

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