Scottish family on This Farming Life aim to showcase the good, the bad and the ugly

One of TV’s most well-loved farming shows, This Farming Life, has returned to our screens, and the Thomson family are hoping it will demonstrate the realities of agriculture

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Nick and Holly Thomson with their daughter Tilly.
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Nick and Holly Thomson with their daughter Tilly.

When the BBC's This Farming Life programme first hit screens back in 2016, it quickly became one of TV's most-loved programmes. It made the likes of Scottish shepherdess Emma Gray and hill farmer Joyce...

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