01/06/21 Ombudsman finds HS2 'dishonest', Open Farm Sunday, Britain's farm toys

Farming Today

• Episode: 01/06/21 Ombudsman finds HS2 'dishonest', Open Farm Sunday, Britain's farm toys
• Website: Farming Today
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• Duration: 00:13:40
• Published: 2021-06-01 07:00

HS2 was “dishonest, misleading and inconsistent” when negotiating compensation with a farmer who had to move to make way for the new high-speed rail line. The Parliamentary Ombudsman service has just published its findings into complaints made by a family from a village near Lichfield, in Staffordshire. We hear about the farmer's 11 year "nightmare" battle with HS2 Ltd. Open Farm Sunday, the industry’s annual throw open the farm gate day, had to go online last year, for obvious reasons. This year it’s back and organisers LEAF are encouraging farmers to get involved in a Covid safe way. Britain's Farm Toys celebrates a hundred years of making farmyard toys this year. It all started when founder William Britain switched from toy soldiers to farming after the First World War. We speak to Britain’s most passionate collector who has fourteen hundred farmyard models. Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Beatrice Fenton.