Tut-tut for mutts at sheep show

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 3:34 PM | add or read comments (0)

THOUGH I say it with gritted teeth, it was good to be back in Nefyn for the opening agricultural show of the North Wales season.

It’s in a great location, is sound underfoot and has accommodating section secretaries (my thanks to Anwen and Gwen, as always). So why do I always regard the event with a certain dread?

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Smallholders should gets their clogs on

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A FEW people have asked me why the annual Wonderwool Wales festival has been split from the Royal Welsh Smallholders Festival, Builth Wells.

The two events were, after all, a perfect fit.

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Nasty shocks lie in store for renewable energy pioneers

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 6:25 PM | add or read comments (0)

ORGANISERS OF last night’s Producers’ Forum in Mold should have checked their diaries before proceeding with the event: for goodness sake, didn’t they realise a Champions’ League semi-final was being played?

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ALF tool up for badger cull protests

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 3:17 PM | add or read comments (1)

MONTY has been in touch again: the last time he called, four years ago, Special Branch interrogated me in a dingy basement at North Wales Police HQ.

Since then the Animal Liberation Front has been strangely silent. But this morning Monty was back on the phone; and threatening mayhem in the Welsh countryside.

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The devil at the door

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 5:55 PM | add or read comments (0)

IN THE darker corners of the forest stood a small wooden building surrounded by the whites of prying eyes.

Were small children to stray too near, they'd be impaled on pearlescent tusks and reduced to bony piles by their ravenous owners.

Bloody hell.

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