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RPA response to coroner 'not good enough', says farmer's widow

Rita Poulsen has criticised the response to her husband's inquest with the former teacher comparing farm inspections to the Ofsted 'regime of fear' in education

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RPA response to coroner 'not good enough', says farmer's widow

The widow of a farmer who died by suicide after receiving a critical Rural Payments Agency report says authorities involved are not responding properly to the incident. Rodney ‘Rocky' Poulson took his...

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