Our Yorkshire Farm's Amanda Owen flooded with support as star shares 'heartbreaking' news

Daily Mirror

3 days ago

Our Yorkshire Farm star Amanda Owen has taken to social media to share the news that she had been left 'cross' and 'angry'
Our Yorkshire Farm viewers were left devastated after Amanda Owen delivered some heartbreaking news from the farm.
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The mother-of-nine turned to Instagram on Sunday to post a clip she confessed she wouldn't normally share.
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Alongside the footage, Amanda penned: "Cross, cross, cross. This is not the normal kind of post I do. Not the kind of post that I want to do.
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"I know that it will not make any difference whatsoever, but still I hope that someone, somewhere might feel a little uncomfortable or even ashamed.
"These places are invaluable, a part of our history and heritage, they do not formally belong to anyone but have been used by for centuries by shepherds, farmers and commoners. They are still in use to this day," reports the Manchester Evening News.
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The Our Yorkshire Farm celebrity also went on a furious tirade, revealing to her supporters what had left her so livid.
In the clip, she started: "This is not my kind of thing that I would normally be reckoning to put on social media. But this has incensed and angered me so enormously.
"No, not a gap in the wall that happens, and that can be remedied. I'm talking about this."
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As the farmer gestured to the problem, she went on: "You might ask yourself, 'What has happened there?' I'll tell you what has happened there.
"At some point in the last couple of days, probably in the middle of the night, somebody has come to these pens on the border between Cumbria and Yorkshire, and they have come into these beautiful pens that have been stood here for centuries.
"And they have dug up and taken the flags out of the floor. Can you imagine, this floor has stood the test of time. It has been here for hundreds of years.
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"This isn't a place that isn't used. This is a place that has got history. Look. See the beautiful cobbles, see how this is maintained and looked after. This is a little building where the shepherds and farmers in our area actually bring our sheep, when we've gathered them in and actually work in them and put strays in here."
Amanda continued: "But at some point over the last couple of days, somebody has taken it upon themselves to desecrate it, whether they had a job for these flags or whether they just got them because they thought nobody was using this place.
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"I think that absolutely stinks, it's our heritage, it's an ancient, ancient place, and I don't see that there's any need to do that kind of thing."
Amanda's supporters were devastated and furious, and countless people flocked to the comments to voice their outrage.
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One person fumed: "People just don't care anymore, they think they are entitled to do and take whatever they want. It really boils my blood!".
Another commented: "Heartbreaking Amanda. Same thing happened to my husband at the shop we owned in Bradford. Low life thieves came during the night and stripped the back yard of the Yorkshire stone flags, they fetch a good price so that's why they do it."
A third person raged: "Disgusting! This is the sign of the times here in the UK! total breakdown of law and order!" Another person exclaimed: "That is just horrific! I will never understand how people could do something like that!"
"That's sad and disgusting in equal measure," another concurred.