diff --git a/apps/rss_feeds/migrations/0019_remove_Tag.py b/apps/rss_feeds/migrations/0019_remove_Tag.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..22a19b7d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/rss_feeds/migrations/0019_remove_Tag.py
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+# encoding: utf-8
+import datetime
+from south.db import db
+from south.v2 import SchemaMigration
+from django.db import models
+
+class Migration(SchemaMigration):
+
+    def forwards(self, orm):
+        
+        # Removing M2M table for field tags on 'Story'
+        db.delete_table('stories_tags')
+
+
+    def backwards(self, orm):
+        
+        # Adding M2M table for field tags on 'Story'
+        db.create_table('stories_tags', (
+            ('id', models.AutoField(verbose_name='ID', primary_key=True, auto_created=True)),
+            ('story', models.ForeignKey(orm['rss_feeds.story'], null=False)),
+            ('tag', models.ForeignKey(orm['rss_feeds.tag'], null=False))
+        ))
+        db.create_unique('stories_tags', ['story_id', 'tag_id'])
+
+
+    models = {
+        'rss_feeds.duplicatefeed': {
+            'Meta': {'object_name': 'DuplicateFeed'},
+            'duplicate_address': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'unique': 'True', 'max_length': '255'}),
+            'feed': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'related_name': "'duplicate_addresses'", 'to': "orm['rss_feeds.Feed']"}),
+            'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'})
+        },
+        'rss_feeds.feed': {
+            'Meta': {'ordering': "['feed_title']", 'object_name': 'Feed', 'db_table': "'feeds'"},
+            'active': ('django.db.models.fields.BooleanField', [], {'default': 'True'}),
+            'average_stories_per_month': ('django.db.models.fields.IntegerField', [], {'default': '0'}),
+            'creation': ('django.db.models.fields.DateField', [], {'auto_now_add': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'days_to_trim': ('django.db.models.fields.IntegerField', [], {'default': '90'}),
+            'etag': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '50', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'exception_code': ('django.db.models.fields.IntegerField', [], {'default': '0'}),
+            'feed_address': ('django.db.models.fields.URLField', [], {'unique': 'True', 'max_length': '255'}),
+            'feed_link': ('django.db.models.fields.URLField', [], {'default': "''", 'max_length': '1000', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'feed_tagline': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'default': "''", 'max_length': '1024', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'feed_title': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'default': "''", 'max_length': '255', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'fetched_once': ('django.db.models.fields.BooleanField', [], {'default': 'False'}),
+            'has_exception': ('django.db.models.fields.BooleanField', [], {'default': 'False'}),
+            'has_feed_exception': ('django.db.models.fields.BooleanField', [], {'default': 'False'}),
+            'has_page_exception': ('django.db.models.fields.BooleanField', [], {'default': 'False'}),
+            'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
+            'last_load_time': ('django.db.models.fields.IntegerField', [], {'default': '0'}),
+            'last_modified': ('django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField', [], {'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'last_update': ('django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField', [], {'auto_now': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'min_to_decay': ('django.db.models.fields.IntegerField', [], {'default': '15'}),
+            'next_scheduled_update': ('django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField', [], {'default': 'datetime.datetime.now'}),
+            'num_subscribers': ('django.db.models.fields.IntegerField', [], {'default': '0'}),
+            'popular_authors': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '2048', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'popular_tags': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '1024', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'stories_last_month': ('django.db.models.fields.IntegerField', [], {'default': '0'}),
+            'story_count_history': ('django.db.models.fields.TextField', [], {'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'})
+        },
+        'rss_feeds.feedfetchhistory': {
+            'Meta': {'object_name': 'FeedFetchHistory'},
+            'exception': ('django.db.models.fields.TextField', [], {'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'feed': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'related_name': "'feed_fetch_history'", 'to': "orm['rss_feeds.Feed']"}),
+            'fetch_date': ('django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField', [], {'default': 'datetime.datetime.now'}),
+            'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
+            'message': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '255', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'status_code': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '10', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'})
+        },
+        'rss_feeds.feedpage': {
+            'Meta': {'object_name': 'FeedPage'},
+            'feed': ('django.db.models.fields.related.OneToOneField', [], {'related_name': "'feed_page'", 'unique': 'True', 'to': "orm['rss_feeds.Feed']"}),
+            'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
+            'page_data': ('utils.compressed_textfield.StoryField', [], {'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'})
+        },
+        'rss_feeds.feedupdatehistory': {
+            'Meta': {'object_name': 'FeedUpdateHistory'},
+            'average_per_feed': ('django.db.models.fields.DecimalField', [], {'max_digits': '4', 'decimal_places': '1'}),
+            'fetch_date': ('django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField', [], {'default': 'datetime.datetime.now'}),
+            'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
+            'number_of_feeds': ('django.db.models.fields.IntegerField', [], {}),
+            'seconds_taken': ('django.db.models.fields.IntegerField', [], {})
+        },
+        'rss_feeds.feedxml': {
+            'Meta': {'object_name': 'FeedXML'},
+            'feed': ('django.db.models.fields.related.OneToOneField', [], {'related_name': "'feed_xml'", 'unique': 'True', 'to': "orm['rss_feeds.Feed']"}),
+            'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
+            'rss_xml': ('utils.compressed_textfield.StoryField', [], {'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'})
+        },
+        'rss_feeds.pagefetchhistory': {
+            'Meta': {'object_name': 'PageFetchHistory'},
+            'exception': ('django.db.models.fields.TextField', [], {'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'feed': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'related_name': "'page_fetch_history'", 'to': "orm['rss_feeds.Feed']"}),
+            'fetch_date': ('django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField', [], {'default': 'datetime.datetime.now'}),
+            'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
+            'message': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '255', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'status_code': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '10', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'})
+        },
+        'rss_feeds.story': {
+            'Meta': {'ordering': "['-story_date']", 'unique_together': "(('story_feed', 'story_guid_hash'),)", 'object_name': 'Story', 'db_table': "'stories'"},
+            'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
+            'story_author': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'to': "orm['rss_feeds.StoryAuthor']"}),
+            'story_author_name': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '500', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'story_content': ('utils.compressed_textfield.StoryField', [], {'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'story_content_type': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '255', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'story_date': ('django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField', [], {}),
+            'story_feed': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'related_name': "'stories'", 'to': "orm['rss_feeds.Feed']"}),
+            'story_guid': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '1000'}),
+            'story_guid_hash': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '40'}),
+            'story_original_content': ('utils.compressed_textfield.StoryField', [], {'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'story_past_trim_date': ('django.db.models.fields.BooleanField', [], {'default': 'False'}),
+            'story_permalink': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '1000'}),
+            'story_tags': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '2000', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'story_title': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '255'})
+        },
+        'rss_feeds.storyauthor': {
+            'Meta': {'object_name': 'StoryAuthor'},
+            'author_name': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '255', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'feed': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'to': "orm['rss_feeds.Feed']"}),
+            'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'})
+        },
+        'rss_feeds.tag': {
+            'Meta': {'object_name': 'Tag'},
+            'feed': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'to': "orm['rss_feeds.Feed']"}),
+            'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
+            'name': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '255'})
+        }
+    }
+
+    complete_apps = ['rss_feeds']
diff --git a/apps/rss_feeds/models.py b/apps/rss_feeds/models.py
index 8e48b8b7e..a474f1d17 100644
--- a/apps/rss_feeds/models.py
+++ b/apps/rss_feeds/models.py
@@ -699,7 +699,6 @@ class Story(models.Model):
     story_guid_hash = models.CharField(max_length=40)
     story_past_trim_date = models.BooleanField(default=False)
     story_tags = models.CharField(max_length=2000, null=True, blank=True)
-    tags = models.ManyToManyField('Tag')
 
     def __unicode__(self):
         return self.story_title