Update for Country Focus 8th February 2009

Organic Crunch, rural buses and wood carvings.

Should rules be relaxed for organic farmers during the recession? Use them or lose them - rural bus services in Powys. And carving up a statue from dead wood.

Country Focus - Sunday 8th February at 07.30am presented by Mel Doel.

Organic holiday? - the Soil Association is conducting a consultation on whether farmers could be allowed to have a relaxation in organic rules to help them through the recession.

Use it or lose it - so often the message heard in rural areas whether it's about post offices, garages or shops. This time it's buses - Powys County Council is currently in the process of looking at all rural bus services it subsidises as part of its annual budget review. Could it axe bus routes often seen as vital to a rural community?

Travel the roads of Wales and you might see the odd carving in an old dead tree by the roadside. We meet the man responsible for many of them in Carmarthenshire.

And how the ancient landscape of Pembrokeshire has insprired a Welsh designer in her jewellery making. Sara Lloyd-Morris's collection can be seen in a series of exhibitions in Pembrokeshire in future weeks.


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