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Denmark is racing to raise pig welfare standards in time for next year's new EU rules. John Howard from the Danish Agriculture and Food Council says that they will be ready in time, but that Denmark will continue to castrate the animals. The UK currently has different pig welfare standards than the rest of the EU, Melvin Rickarby visits a Nottinghamshire farm to discover what the conditions are for British pigs.

Battery hens have recently been outlawed across the EU, but 14 countries have not yet complied with the new regulations. Scottish egg producer John Campbell, thinks that the UK market will be flooded with illegal imports from the countries that still have battery hens.

And we might be in deep mid-winter but the first signs of Spring have already appeared. Primroses and other wildflowers are currently in bloom in Wales. Dr Sarah Whild from the University of Birmingham explains how the unusually mild winter is confusing the flowers - if a heavy frost comes along now the plants will suffer.

Presented by Anna Hill, Produced by Emma Weatherill.