How The Wet & Wintry Weather Has Affected Farmers & Businesses
Freezing temperatures over the past weeks, preceded & followed by wet weather, have had a devastating impact farmers & other businesses. Many farmers have applied for grant funding to tide them over.
Freezing temperatures over the past weeks, preceded and followed by wet weather, have had a devastating impact farmers and other businesses. Many farmers have applied for grant funding to tide them over. Reporter James Tzanoudakis meets Bob Rutt who's a livestock farmer in Rockingham, while Stuart talks to Millie Wastie from the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, to Simon Job a partner at St Giles Music in Northampton, and to Andrew Batty, a driving instructor from AA Drive Northampton.
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* on the 200th anniversary of Pride & Prejudice we visit the Northamptonshire set of the 2005 film version
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