Farmer and son battle fire near Ludlow to save 20 cattle
A farmer and his son battled to save 20 cattle, leading them to safety in a nearby field, when a huge blaze engulfed a barn at a farm near Ludlow.
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The cattle were in the barn at Sparchford Farm, Culmington, when fire broke out. A villager spotted the flames and called the owner, 70-year-old Gordon Jones, to alert him.
Mr Jones's wife Shirley, 65, said they were oblivious to the fire quarter of a mile away as they had the farmhouse's curtains drawn.
Firecrews from Craven Arms and Ludlow and a water carrier from Oswestry fought the Dutch barn blaze.
Mr and Mrs Jones have had the farm for 46 years.
