Tributes paid to Reading Festival farm tenant

Family left heartbroken following death of Little John’s Farm tenant Josephine ‘Mavis’ Drayton

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The TFA has led tributes to Josephine ‘Mavis’ Drayton who for many years was the farm tenant of the Reading Festival site at Little John’s Farm in Berkshire
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The TFA has led tributes to Josephine ‘Mavis’ Drayton who for many years was the farm tenant of the Reading Festival site at Little John’s Farm in Berkshire

The Tenant Farmers' Association (TFA) has led tributes to Josephine ‘Mavis' Drayton who for many years was the farm tenant of the Reading Festival site at Little John's Farm on the banks of the River Thames....

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