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Sheep rustling in Britain’s killing fields
Massive unemployment and rising food prices bring new crimes to the countryside. PETER FROST investigates blood flowing in our fields
Farmers are using DNA tracing and coded fleece paint, but the latter is not much use if the sheep are butchered in the field and the fleece and skin left behind
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
A NIGHT or two ago, just up the road from my home in Northamptonshire three sheep rustlers stole eight live sheep from a field and slaughtered and butchered the carcasses right there. They took only the prime lamb leg and shoulder joints away with them.
Over the last few years this crime has slowly become more common. Organised gangs have taken over from individual chancers. Only one in a hundred are convicted.
Supermarkets and high street butchers charge between £15 and £30 per kilogram for prime lamb leg and shoulder joints. Market stalls, door to door sales and a few, less than scrupulous restaurants or cafes all provide a regular market for meat at about half or two thirds of butcher’s prices
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