Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Paving paradise

Rural wannabes are killing our countryside

issue 02 June 2012

The gamekeeper at the Surrey farm where I keep my horses has been banned from his local pub for looking too scruffy. Like the two farm workers in Berkshire who made headlines when they were turfed out of their local a few weeks ago, the gamekeeper has been left in no doubt that his muddy face no longer fits.

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