Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

On the wrong track

The high-speed rail link will spell disaster for the countryside – and for Cameron

issue 31 December 2011

The high-speed rail link will spell disaster for the countryside – and for Cameron

My outing with the Bicester hunt has already taken me over a five-bar iron gate when a lady on a handsome dapple grey pulls up alongside me. ‘You’re visiting, aren’t you?’ she says, as our horses snort and stamp.

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