. As I stood on a balcony looking down I marvelled at the simple ingenuity of what was before me. A lorry laden with carrots from the field entered at one end of the line. They were washed in chilled water to start the chilling process, topped, tailed, washed again, chilled and bagged ready to exit on another lorry to be distributed across the country usually via supermarket hubs. All this happened in minutes rather than hours from entry to exit. It is hard to believe that a

Here I commit the heresy of questioning the purchase of the Bass Rock by the RSPB. This has implications on how public money is used or abused.

As I sat in the White Pheasant Clem Tompsett explained how asparagus was one of his first crops.