One woman's win over pesticides
Updated on 14 November 2008
Lone environmental campaigner, Georgina Downs, wins her landmark court case over the government's pesticide control policies.
It was a "relentless and extraordinary attempt" by ministers to protect business at the expense of human health.
This was the allegation from a lone campaigner after winning her landmark court case to protect people living in the countryside from potentially harmful pesticides.
A High Court judge ruled that Georgina Downs was right to claim that the government had not complied with a European directive on chemicals sprayed on crops - and urged ministers to "think again", which they have promised to do.
Our science correspondent Julian Rush reports.
Discussion: Georgina Downs & Paul Temple
Jon Snow speaks to Georgina Downs, who won this landmark case, and Paul Temple of the National Farmers' Union, about what today's verdict means.
