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Farmer sentenced after cutting down trees in Herefordshire

The Crown Prosecution Service said John Price had been responsible for illegally felling a large area of alder, willow, hazel and thorn trees which were around 50 years old

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Senior crown prosecutor George Ward said John Price had earned a living from the land as a farmer but had 'no real regard for it' after illegally felling trees (CPS)
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Senior crown prosecutor George Ward said John Price had earned a living from the land as a farmer but had 'no real regard for it' after illegally felling trees (CPS)

A farmer has been sentenced for organising the illegal felling of trees in Herefordshire. John Pudge Price, 69, of Day House Farm in Leominster, pleaded guilty at Hereford Magistrates' Court on Wednesday...

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