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    Why Are Young People Not Learning Trades/Skills?

    I think this is disgraceful. When my daughter was training for an NHS job, not a nurse, she got a Bursary towards living costs, didn't have to pay university fees as it was funded by the NHS. All she had to find was her day to day living costs as the bursary just about covered the rent of her...
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    Anyone been down the A428 / 421 from Cambridge to Bedford recently ? Massive development / loss of agricultural land

    Milton Keynes was supposed to stop at the motorway, but has now gone the other side and masses of what was farm land is now covered with industrial units.
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    £5 coffee

    Greggs is the best for tea and coffee at motorway services if they are there. Of course there is no seating.
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    Sheperds hut

    What are visitors supposed to do - hike from the nearest station?
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    Yellowstone TV series

    Well yes. We have lost cattle from bloat from clover in grass in the past. But from hay?
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    Toxic Hedges - Laburnum

    Yes, poisonous. I remember climbing a couple of laburnums as a child and we were always told not to eat the seeds. Amazing we survived. Someone had some cows and calves in a large field that surrounds the church. They managed to get through a gate into the church yard one evening which has...
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    Scheduled monument liability

    Drone over private land without permission? I thought that was illegal.
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    Potential Development “Land Promotion Developments”???

    We had a Planning Specialist who worked for us, but was paid by the developer who eventually bought the land. I think he went round to suitable developers who he thought would be interested in the size of the plot. Give the Developer his due, he told us what the offer was at the first...
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    Pony paddock how much?

    One acre is hardly enough. A couple of donkeys perhaps.
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    How close to a Power line with Pylons to a house?

    It would affect the value of the house. Some people wouldn't bother, but it would put off a lot more. There is a house not far from me that has been on the market for nearly 1 year with a pylon in the garden. Those houses usually sell straight away. It looks as though it has been sold now...
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    People and dogs again...

    If there is bullying take it up with the school. They should have robust policies in place and if they faff around point out that children have killed themselves after being badly bullied. * That they "didn't know" about the dogs frightening the sheep is probably correct, people just don't...
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    Best way to rent land

    In towns, yes. But I expect there are plenty in villages, see my two examples above. Also, you might find someone who has bought a house with land which is too much for an ordinary garden but not enough to rent to a farmer, and then it becomes a bit of a nuisance.
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    Bank of Mum & Dad

    I seem to be acting as my son's bank offering a loan scheme. I do have something in writing, more as a aid to memory than anything else, so no-one forgets that it is a loan and not an outright gift, which can be called in at any time! It is surprising how easy it is to forget things. I least...
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    Best way to rent land

    I know a farming couple who rent out a field for people to grow their own vegetables and fruit. I think it started out with a few people, but has dwindled down to not very many now, but they are still going. This is quite far out in the country, I would say about 10 miles at least from the...
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