Tractor trek traumas as family heads to France

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Mechanical breakdowns and police have turned a tractor journey to southern France into a three-day ordeal for a North Devon farming family.For two nights, the three drivers, Michael Jordan, 40, his dad, Reg, 67, and co-driver DamienO'Meara, 24, had to sleep in their tractors.The team also had to leave one of the three tractors, with a trailer, en route because of punctures.The 400-mile journey began late on Saturday 5 April. The convoy of three tractors left the family farm in the hamlet of Langaford, near Holsworthy North Devon, to drive on to a new life in a chateauand 1,000-acre farm in southern France.