A sheep farmer whose great-uncle sold off the family farm has been told he will now inherit it back from a neighbour.Richard Thirlwell, 43, from Simonburn in Northumberland, ran into the farm's then-owner, Richard Burrell, at Hexham Mart in 2018 while trying to buy Red Aberdeen Angus cross cattle.When he failed to buy any, the older man asked Richard if he would look after his heifers. The arrangement worked so well that when Mr Burrell died in February 2022, aged 80, he left his farm on the edge of Kielder Forest to his younger colleague.
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