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The truth is messy. Village gossip is even messier

20 April 2019

9:00 AM

20 April 2019

9:00 AM

An angry villager accosted me outside my house as I came through my front door. ‘You’re wrong about those horses,’ she called. By which she meant the 123 horses taken from a farm down the road by the RSPCA.

‘They were never fed!’ she shouted at me. ‘They were starved! We have been trying to help them for years!’

I sighed.

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