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'Failure' over pesticide controls

Updated on 14 November 2008

By Julian Rush

Victory for the lone campaigner forcing government to protect those who live near farms from harmful pesticides.

An environmental campaigner wins her court case to protect countryside residents from exposure to pesticides that are potentially harmful to human health.

A High Court judge ruled that Georgina Downs was right to claim that the government hadn't complied with a European directive on chemicals sprayed on crops.

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