Great witchingham horse trials july 2013

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Louisa Baldwin. Woman dies following concerns over her safety. Casey Cooper-Fiske. This enabled him to move into mass production of spin-off lines, but he did not build up a really big market for his turkey rolls and turkey roasts until the advertising campaign. The effect of the campaign was to turn Matthews PLC — the company went public in from an agricultural business into an advanced food processor, and Matthews patented the extrusion technology, not just for turkeys but for all meat.

He diversified into red meat, chicken, fish and pork products, moved into North America, New Zealand and Europe, and sought royalties through international deals for his technology. He even launched a range of vegetarian products, though this did not prove successful. By the s, nine tenths of his earnings came from spin-off products. The festive season, by comparison, was something of a sideshow. The product was withdrawn in On 19 June , the Daily Mail reported the incident and went on to state that:.

The same investigator last year filmed two other Bernard Matthews staff appearing to play baseball with live turkeys on another farm. The confidence of consumers with Bernard Matthews products was also shaken in February of by an outbreak of bird flu at his biggest farm in Holton near Halesworth. Production at the farm and its adjoining factory was halted as more than , birds were culled after the discovery of the virulent H5N1 strain of the disease.

The latest video is another embarrassment to Matthews managers who had claimed they did not tolerate workers abusing poultry. The new film shows a balding worker in overalls delivering eight separate kicks to turkeys in a shed on a farm at Wreningham near Wymondham, Norfolk.

The incident was filmed prior to two different workers being shown loading live turkeys into crates which were delivered to the shed by a forklift. The video is said to have been filmed through an open door in the giant shed by an investigator who sneaked on to the farm at around 1. Bird experts had long argued that intensive poultry operations were magnets for disease.

They must have felt fully vindicated when the H5N1 strain of bird flu surfaced in the UK for the first time in Though sensitive to criticism, he was always robust in defending himself and was to reject criticism of the conditions in his turkey houses. He said, probably more than once, that:. All they need is food and warmth. All that needs to be said here is that he married his childhood sweetheart, Joyce, in and they adopted two girls, Kathleen and Victoria, and a boy, Jason. They separated in but remained married, despite having lived apart from her for 35 years.

He then fell in love with Cornelia Elgershuizen, a Dutch aristocrat, and they lived together for eight years in his room Norfolk country house, Great Witchingham Hall, where their son, Frederick, was born in However, that relationship ended when Matthews fell for U.

She died there in If all this had been a play then the cast could well be publicised as follows:. Matthews did not flaunt his wealth. In addition, he restored and furnished Great Witchingham Hall with antiques, and where he lived a careful, modest life, preferring to spend his evenings at home to going out and socialising.

On the plus side, along with the fortune he made, he did support a number of charities and had a positive effect on the local economy. One of the very few people who appeared not to have heard of the brand name Bernard Matthews was the Queen who asked him, during the CBE ceremony, which branch of the poultry business he was in. However, for various reasons, i.

No violation of any copyright or trademark material is intentional. It marks the scene of the last duel fought in Norfolk. Behind this Tale lies a sub-plot of Norfolk politics, plus an unlikely victory for a left-handed underdog! Henry Hobart owned Blickling Hall and its Estate; his ancestor the 1st baronet, having made his fortune through the law, spent a fortune building his magnificent mansion near Aylsham.

Despite the family of Old Commonwealth Hobarts being stubborn and supporters of republicanism, it continue to thrive over the generations. Young Henry, 4th baronet and the other half of this said Duel, had been knighted by Charles II in aged just In adulthood he became a politician after serving as William of Oranges Gentleman of Horse at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland; he also represented the borough of Kings Lynn in Parliament. As a member of the Whig party, he prospered in the political climate of the s.

Oliver Le Neve, by contrast, was of more humble station. He was Tory-supporting lawyer, a country sportsman, fisherman and well-known local drinking man — every inch the Tory king and country squire. Oliver was, to his credit, also easy going and better-liked, an attribute that was eventually to stand him in good stead. His personality was in striking contrast to that of Henry Hobart, the court sophisticate, renowned as a swordsman but also argumentative, dictatorial and headstrong, with a record of disputes with his neighbours.

In a bitter political battle broke out in Norfolk. He attributed his failure to rumours circulating about his conduct in Ireland during the Boyne campaign. It seems accusations that Hobart had been a coward were circulating and Hobart blamed Le Neve. Hobart issued a challenge by letter and in person, but Le Neve denied being the author of the rumours. He wrote to Hobart:.