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From the newspapers
“A farmer who hired diggers and builders to illegally rip out trees along a riverbank has been jailed for 12 months.
But the farmer was jailed – and ordered to pay more than £1.2m in court and restoration costs – after a judge described his action on the Herefordshire river as ‘ecological vandalism on an industrial scale’.“
Today he was jailed for 12 months and disqualified from being a company director for three years.
The cost to the damage to the River Lugg at Kingsland, near Leominster, and the embankments amounts to £600,000, which Price must repay in 12 months.“
[Daily Mail]
I recall blogging about that greedy farmer-vandal at the time, 4-5 years ago. Good to see that he has been punished, and especially that he will now have to pay for the restorative work.
[Update, 2 February 2024: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13032529/Multi-millionaire-farmer-69-jailed-bulldozing-riverside-beauty-spot-hauled-court-illegally-felling-trees.html].
Again…
A greedy farmer-bastard like that will never learn. As a group, farmers rarely elicit my liking or respect.
Interesting. I have been surprised at the —so far— relatively modest damage caused to the Ukraine rail system since early 2022.
Tweets seen
https://twitter.com/RealBlackIrish/status/1648962031813263360?s=20
Ha ha!
…says an American woman whose only known job before getting into the System political racket was acting for a year or so in rock-bottom-quality soft-porn films: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Morrissey.
Why is she even an MP in this country?
All aboard for World War Three…
Actually, if Ukraine were to be admitted, while a large part of its own territory is occupied by another power (Russia), NATO would be breaking its own rules, surely?
If it wanted to, and were willing to risk the anger of the “tail-wags-dog” USA, Russia could obliterate Israel in a matter of minutes…
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Ian Robert Millard 