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Family farms feel 'battled and bullied' as pylons and pipeline schemes threaten livelihoods

Calls for rural fight back as proposals put farmers at risk of losing their land and their homes

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The Lanham family could lose their farm business over proposals for more than 100 miles of pylons
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The Lanham family could lose their farm business over proposals for more than 100 miles of pylons

A farming family have said farmers are ‘being battered and bullied by this country' as they fight plans by National Grid to lay cables on their Essex farm. Clare and Richard Lanham, who run a turkey...

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