An English farmer is refusing to move from his holding, despite a compulsory purchase order requiring him to do s.

Alan French has been farming at Meadow Farm, in Tameside outside Manchester for 17 years.

A new 2,000 house village is planned for the area, but French has said “non”.

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It’s hard to blame him, as the 76-year-old has been CPO’d off farms not once, but twice before. As the old saying goes, fool me once...