RABDF chair's farm fined £37K for polluting watercourse with manure

A Somerset farm run by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farming (RABDF) chair and his family has been fined £37,184 for polluting a watercourse with slurry and manure.

Hannah Binns
News Reporter
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RABDF chair's farm fined £37K for polluting watercourse with manure

A Somerset farm run by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farming (RABDF) chair and his family has been fined £37,184 for polluting a watercourse with slurry and manure. Alvis Brothers, of Lye...

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