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Flip flops, moor fires, drugs, abuse and emergency rescues: The realities of farming in a Right to Roam area

"It's a living hell. People just think the countryside is a theme park"

Chris Brayford
clock • 6 min read
"We can never sleep. Our lives have been tormented by people who just cannot behave in the countryside. They call us Tory c****. Either that or they just scream 'RIGHT TO ROAM' in our faces as some form of God given right to do what they want on our land."
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"We can never sleep. Our lives have been tormented by people who just cannot behave in the countryside. They call us Tory c****. Either that or they just scream 'RIGHT TO ROAM' in our faces as some form of God given right to do what they want on our land."

The Peak District has some of the most picturesque views in Britain. From the rolling hills, green fields, open moorlands, and livestock grazing on land, countryside settings like this, maintained by...

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