Backbone of Britain: 'I want my experience to remind farmers that they are not invincible' - Trevor Wilson

Five seconds can change your life. Here, farmer and director of L and K Group and North West Auctions, Trevor Wilson, talks to Hannah Binns about his near-death incident falling nine feet from a barn roof one sunny afternoon in May.

Hannah Binns
News Reporter
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Backbone of Britain: 'I want my experience to remind farmers that they are not invincible' - Trevor Wilson

Five seconds can change your life. Here, farmer and director of L and K Group and North West Auctions, Trevor Wilson, talks to Hannah Binns about his near-death incident falling nine feet from a barn roof...

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