"WE MAY have a green and pleasant land but there is no shortage of rural controversy judging by today's top site, Country Reflections.
"This is a lively on-line magazine/forum on countryside matters with news and plenty of forthright opinion.
"The news had campaigners attacking plans to launch new GM crop trials, while the National Farmers Union were urging the Government to only use British produce for a scheme to offer children free fruit.
"The Country Views section allows rural types to let off steam (but why are most of the correspondents from big cities ?), particularly shooting their virtual blunderbusses at the anti-bloodsports lobby.
"David Kavanagh, the writer of the Country Column, tells us about his run-ins with wasps, Moroccan rats, and aggressive maternal Friesian cows, amongst other rural encounters. And Russell Grant writes your Country Stars and offers a personalised 'love psychic scan' for a fiver.
"Presumably, you need to check out your country stars because the city ones are obscured by light pollution!"


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"David Kavanagh started and now runs a successful and (I looked) fascinating website in Britain called Country Reflections. If you pay the site a visit, I'm sure you'll be as impressed as I was by the wealth of information about country life in Britain, much of it helpful to people planning trips to the country, people anxious to import British goods, or simply to people interested in some off-the-beaten-track websites in Britain."
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The Royal Gazette
Bermuda.

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