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Sep 06, 2024
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How much do you have to hate your neighbour, to shop him to the Health and Safety Executive for letting his grandson ride in the tractor cab? A 78-year-old farmer in South Wales has been fined £3,500 by officials, after a neighbour filmed him taking his preteen grandson with him in the tractor cab while he fed the cattle. It’s illegal in the UK to let a…

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