The EU backs plans to ease global grain shortages by telling farmers they no longer need to leave land fallow.

The European Union unveils plans to allow farming on land left fallow, in a bid to tackle soaring crop prices.

The BBC's Martin Asser reports on how Israelis are dealing with a religious requirement to leave land unfarmed for a year.

A fallow deer dies after becoming entangled in nylon rope which then got caught around a tree.

A man who savagely beat to death his lifelong friend in a park using a table leg is jailed for life.

A woman is charged with the murder of a 32-year-old man from Greater Manchester.

Technical problems stop two jet-powered cars in their attempt to break the British land speed record.

A British team is to attempt the official land speed record for an electric vehicle on Saturday after two delays.

Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis tells the BBC that the event will take a year off in 2006.

DJ Fatboy Slim says that the dance music genre is not dead, but admits it is going through a "fallow" period.

Leaving fallow patches in cereal fields could help boost skylark breeding, a survey shows.

Prosecuters will not try to increase the sentence of a man jailed for hiring a hitman to kill his wife

A businessman is jailed for trying to hire a hitman to kill his wife to avoid paying a divorce settlement.

A man pleads guilty to trying to hire a hitman to kill his wife in a car crash as they went through a bitter divorce.

Engineer Colin Farrows smashes the British land speed record with a 300mph run in his jet-propelled car.

The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez says he will expropriate fallow farm land from landowners who do not voluntarily cooperate with the government's plans to rehouse survivors of last month's floods and mudslides.

A 49-year-old grandfather smashes the British land-speed record in a dragster powered by an aero engine costing just £500.