- Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:42 pm
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West Highland Free Press
Anti-EU editor pockets European subsidies
Posted by Lisa Falconer
2 days ago
Anti-EU editor pockets European subsidies
Posted by Lisa Falconer
2 days ago
http://www.whfp.com/2014/01/24/anti-eu- ... subsidies/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;(in full)
The editor of the virulently anti-EU ‘Daily Mail’, Paul Dacre, has landed more than a quarter of a million pounds in EU subsidies for his sporting estate in Wester Ross.
Mr Dacre has owned the 14,000-acre Langwell Estate near Ullapool since 2009 and it is heavily marketed to attract shooting and fishing parties. The lodge has recently undergone major renovation.
According to the FarmSubsidy website which tracks EU payments, Langwell received EU grants to the value of 300,408 euros in 2012, 287,000 euros of which was paid under the European Agriculture Fund for Rural Development which is supposed to support “diversification of the rural economy”. Another 13,000 euros was received in Direct Farm Payments.