Very exciting to be here. But im trying to understand what has happened to this land of yours, because when you arrived here, this was an intensively farmed land, wasnt it . It was. My husband, charlie, inherited it from his grandparents when he was in his early 20s, and this was back in the 1980s. And every inch of the land was ploughed, it was producing arable crops and dairy. And we fully expected to be farmers for the rest of our lives. Mm. 17 years on, we were £1. 5 million in debt, tearing our hair out and realised that, you know, this is very marginal land. Were walking on 320 metres of clay, over a bedrock of limestone, and its an absolute pig to farm. So you were literally close to going out of business . Yeah, the farm was a failing business. And we did everything we could. We diversified, we tried different crops, we tried different cows. We sold ice cream. We did everything we could. But always it was this clay that was against us. So lets just stop for a second and look a
in the knockout stage at the women s world cup. we ll have the latest on all the action. good morning. a major shake up of alcohol taxation has come into effect in the uk, with the price of stronger wines and spirit going up but some others falling. alcohol duty, which has been frozen since 2020, will increase overall as alcoholic drinks are taxed based on their strength rather than type. the government says the new system is simpler. ben king has more. when drinkers gather at london s king charles pub this evening, there will be a new tax regime in place. changes announced in march come into effect today,
we ll have the latest on all the action. good morning. a major shake up of alcohol taxation has come into effect in the uk, with the price of stronger wines and spirit going up but some others falling. alcohol duty, which has been frozen since 2020, will increase overall as alcoholic drinks are taxed based on their strength rather than type. the government says the new system is simpler. ben king has more. when drinkers gather at london s king charles pub this evening, there will be a new tax regime in place. changes announced in march come into effect today, taxing stronger drinks,