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September 25, 2007
Wouldn't it be nice if the government cared about its farmers?
- Posted by Arnold Pennant at 3:41 PM | add or read comments (0)
THERE are certain times in history when you can look back and be relieved that you made certain decisions.
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September 10, 2007
The 2000 fuel protest was a sign of things to come
- Posted by Arnold Pennant at 11:27 AM | add or read comments (1)
LOOKING out of my bedroom window this morning I am just glad that I was not where I was seven years ago.
Home is much more preferable than Oil Tanks Road, Ellesmere Port, where a group of lorry drivers and farmers from North Wales and Cheshire and others blockaded the exit of the enormous Shell Oil refinery at Stanlow.
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September 3, 2007
FMD: the perfect terrorism weapon
- Posted by Arnold Pennant at 10:57 AM | add or read comments (0)
THANKFULLY it is all over bar the shouting, for farmers at least. I refer, of course, yet again to foot-and-mouth disease.
Apart from another piece of dreadful bureaucracy, 20-day movement rule, this awful disease has essentially passed away.
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