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M.P._Candidate / PAGE, Robin
Robin Page
Robin was born on the small family farm where he still lives
and which he now runs in the village of Barton, Cambridgeshire..
He attended the village school, from where he went to the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, gaining five “O” levels and two “A” levels in history and geography. As Robin was the second son, the farm was not big enough for him to go into farming, so he did other things before joining the civil service at Executive grade. In 1969 he left the Civil Service to try writing as a career. He has been writing as a freelance ever since. He was invited to join the staff of The Daily Telegraph by the late Bill Deedes, but he declined, preferring to follow his own interests. He has now written thirty books. He regards “The Decline of an English Village” to be the most important. He is currently writing another, “The Lost Tribe of Britain”. He has written for many national newspapers and magazines. He has a fortnightly column in The Daily Telegraph, a monthly column in The Countryman and a monthly column in Shooting Times, although he does not shoot. In addition he writes a “blog” for “Mail Online”. He has run the family farm as a working farmer for the last seven years, after his brother became another statistic and left the land . He is gradually changing his Single Suckler herd into Red Polls, the traditional breed of East Anglia. He has presented “One Man and His Dog” on the BBC, Countrywide and A Place in the Country on Anglia, and Come Bye on Horse and Country Television. He served as an Independent Councillor on South Cambs.District Council for thirty-six years. He resigned in protest at John Prescott’s “Code of Conduct”, (that’s right – John Prescott with a code of conduct), which he believes inhibits free speech. He has stood for Parliament for the Tories, the Referendum Party and UKIP. He is founder and Chairman of the Countryside Restoration Trust, he has served time on the Wilderness Foundation, the Executive of the Cambridgeshire Wildlife Trust , he is on the Council of the National Trust and he is Patron of Save Our Squirrels (red squirrels). He has travelled widely off the beaten track in Africa and is addicted to cricket. #001
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