One woman's win over pesticides

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.

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