Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman and Farming Minister Jim Paice will host talks between dairy farmers and processors later after days of protests about the price of milk.

Farmers angry at a planned price cut by some supermarkets of 2-pence per litre, which they claim will put many out of business, have held more blockades at Bridgwater and in Worcestershire.

The Government is pushing for the two sides to back a new code of practice.