Residents came together at a meeting in Scopwick and Kirkby Green Village Hall to oppose an application for a new chicken breeder factory farm.

Local people are trying to stop a factory farm from expanding from its current 40,000-turkey operation to 330,000 broiler chickens.

A factory farm given approval in Lincolnshire will no longer be built after a successful legal challenge - the fifth legal win for Communities Against Factory Farming.

East Lindsey District Council approved a factory farm, as local residents held a protest to highlight unacceptable risks to the local community, environment and animal welfare concerns.

Over 50 local residents attended a public meeting against an intensive poultry unit (IPU) that would confine 111,000 birds in three sheds in Laxton, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Over 40 local residents attended a public meeting against the expansion of a pig factory farm, organised by Communities Against Factory Farming (CAFF)

The proposal to build six new sheds to confine 270,000 chickens for meat has met strong local opposition from Keal Cotes and West Keal residents.

Fifty local residents gathered last night to discuss plans to stop an intensive chicken unit between Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire. “Tonight showed what we can achieve together," one attendee commented.

A proposal to build three new sheds for an intensive chicken breeding farm of 39,999 birds is North Cotes has met strong local opposition.

The UK government has clarified in the starkest possible terms that its major land use policy does not support factory farming or the intensification of poultry farming.