AVONDHU Blackwater Partnership community information evenings continue throughout October, providing information on the programmes the organisation delivers, and on the new rules, regulations and guidelines in the 2007-2013 Rural Development Programme.

Unemployed people claiming the dole could be made to work in the community for their benefits, it emerged today.

THE €8.7 billion provision for the agriculture and food sector in the National Development Plan 2007-2013 will benefit consumers as well as farmers.