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Farming Today: Brandon Lewis, Rural housing, Fell ponies, Wool to China

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10/07/2015

Brandon Lewis, Rural housing, Fell ponies, Wool to China

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Brandon Lewis, Rural housing, Fell ponies, Wool to China

Rural housing in crisis. The minister in charge responds.

Brandon Lewis, the minster in charge of planning, responds to warnings that the Budget will exacerbate the rural housing crisis.

Brandon Lewis the minister in charge of planning and communities responds to warnings that the budget will exacerbate the rural housing crisis. Charlotte Smith talks to people attending the Rural Housing conference at the House of Lords, they say that it's the biggest problem effecting the countryside and means that rural communities are losing young people who simply cant afford to live there.
A Chinese delegation is in the UK looking at the British wool process from shearing to shipping, Farming Today talks to Xhang Pei Wi - the woman responsible in charge of selling wool to China. She says British farmers should be more switched on when it comes to pushing their brand
Caz Graham visits an auction of the few remaining semi-feral herds of Fell ponies, which has come under the auctioneer's hammer in Cumbria. Fell ponies are highly sought after and rumour has it that the Queen rides one every day.

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