Martin Revill

@WG_RumblePants I'm loving these scenic grounds! I played here too, near the end of my playing days, alongside my son, more than 30 years after I played at today's ground (1985 to 2016).

Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home of Bolton Abbey CC in Yorkshire

@WG_RumblePants Fabulous picture. I remember playing there once more than 40 years ago for my home town Club, Roses. Memorable too as it was the day I made my first ever senior league 50 as a teenager in the Bassetlaw League. I never played there again, sadly.

Today’s beautiful cricket ground is Thoresby Park in Nottinghamshire

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@ownersgroupuk My favourite day on a racecourse! Just surpassing Desert Orchid's Gold Cup 🏆

On this day in 2023, Maximilian won the Grade 2 River Don Novices' Hurdle for trainer Donald McCain. Were you there to cheer him home that day? Maximilian has switched to chasing this season and we look forward to following his progress over fences 🤩 #Maximilian #OwnersGroup

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 After months of NFU campaigning, the government has today announced changes to the threshold for inheritance tax for family farms. These changes mark a huge victory for British farmers. NFU President Tom Bradshaw explains. More 👉 ow.ly/TSFG50XNBE7

@ownersgroupuk Brilliant run over a trip short of his best. Sadly not able to make it to Haydock today, but the dreams that were built in Doncaster so long ago are firmly alive again!

Maximilian ran incredibly well to finish a close 2nd over fences at Haydock today. He jumped well under Brian Hughes before a late rattle saw him denied by just a neck at the post. Well done to Donald McCain for having him ready & Ludo & Lizzie for turning him out so well

A Community on the Brink: Farmers Gather in London to Save Their Family Farms As our friends and community head home after another day of protests, a day that no one wants, farmers want to be home, growing food, looking after livestock, not going to London, but we did it again. London awoke this morning to an unexpected and rather magnificent sight: a convoy of tractors rumbling past the Embankment, engines growling like loyal old workhorses refusing to be silenced. They had come not in anger, but in desperation. Britain’s farmers, keepers of the countryside, stewards of the soil had arrived to protest what many have come to call the family farm tax: inheritance tax laws that threaten to break apart farms that have survived wars, recessions, droughts, and the stubborn British weather. Among those who made the journey was the Harper family from Shropshire. Three generations travelled together, the youngest sitting proudly atop the tractor wheel arch, waving at passers-by. The Harpers have worked the same land for over 120 years. Their great-grandfather reclaimed it from bog and bramble with nothing but grit and a good pair of boots. Now, they fear they may lose it not to nature, but to legislation that fails to recognise the fragile economics of family farming. “We don’t want handouts,” said Margaret Harper, matriarch of the clan, her cheeks red from the cold and emotion. “We only want the chance to hand the farm to our children without being forced to sell half of it to pay a tax bill.” But the atmosphere shifted as police moved in to disperse the gathering. Several farmers, bewildered and wide-eyed, were led away under arrest some for nothing more sinister than sitting astride their tractors in the capital. Their hands were rough, their boots muddy, their voices loud with frustration, but these were not agitators. These were ordinary men and women who rose before dawn to milk cows, plant fields, and keep a nation fed. Yet even in the tension, there was tenderness. Strangers offered cups of tea. Children handed out homemade signs with scribbled drawings of cows and tractors. Farmers embraced one another, communities from hundreds of miles apart brought together by a shared fear of losing what generations before them had built. Today was more than a protest. It was a plea. A call for understanding. A reminder that behind every pint of milk, every loaf of bread, every Sunday roast, stands a family fighting to stay on the land. To Britain’s farmers: thank you. Thank you for the early mornings, the long nights, the mud, the worry, the devotion, and the food that keeps this nation going. Whatever the outcome of today’s events, your courage has not gone unnoticed.

So true! 🙌

Stop plastering solar panels on thousands of acres of prime farmland. Put them in car parks and on roofs instead.

So while the Labour government hammer family farmers with the inheritance tax, there are members of the Labour government who have a problem with paying tax.

Beales, another multi-generational family business. Department Store. Finished off by Labour’s punitive taxes. A rich history in Bournemouth going back 144 years. Their closing down sale called: The Rachel Reeves Closing Down Sale. “Credit” where it’s due.

Consumers are being warned of bread and hot cross bun shortages this Easter as large numbers of farmers go ‘on strike'. 🪧❌ Led by Merseyside-based arable farmer Olly Harrison, the move will see farmers across the country refuse to load milling wheat out of farm stores. 🌾 🚨 It marks an escalation in action following months of protests against changes to Inheritance Tax announced in Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Autumn Budget. READ MORE: ow.ly/1FKS50VspEB

@fawwon1 @NeilMcConnell70 Brilliant photo. I've only ever seen pictures of the finish and Shaun Goilin being led in. Fascinating period in the race's history with the big fields, American interest, and stars such as Easter Hero.

@MartinRevill1 @NeilMcConnell70 Outstanding! Amazingly the jockey Tommy Cullinan rode the winner of the Champion Hurdle, Cheltenham Gold Cup as well that season. And he was booked to have the ride here on Easter Hero originally!

One for you @NeilMcConnell70

Labours's farming policy 👇

“If you care, care now, not ten years in the future when it’s all gone. We need your support now”. Making no apologies for how cutting and clear my commentary is. @DefraGovUK @SteveReedMP @RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer do the right thing. You are ruining our country.

Absolutely spot on from @Nigelrefowens. Put solar panels on brownfields, car parks and roofs rather than on prime farmland. ⬇️

Once the farmland is gone, it’s gone. It never returns. We lose our countryside and food supply at our own peril. No Farmers, No Food. @NoFarmsNoFoods 🚜

Farming should be a non partisan issue irrespective of political opinions. We are willing to work with politicians from all main political parties & campaign groups - but only if they have the best interests of farmers at heart. Farmers should be supported and never manipulated.