Douglas Gordon - Saffery Champness

The income from game shooting, which has been estimated to contribute more than £1.6 billion to the UK’s rural economy, has not gone unnoticed by HM Revenue & Customs. Consequently, VAT on shooting has developed into a major issue and, in some cases, a major liability for those who own and manage shoots. For those attending the CLA Game Fair and perhaps on whom HM Revenue & Customs have focussed their attention, expertise is on hand on Friday 23rd July at the GunsOnPegs stand at the Game Fair being held this year at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire.

 Llyn Vyrnwy - largest land sale in living memory

Knight Frank has just launched the historic 23,315-acre Lake Vyrnwy Estate in Wales’ Cambrian Mountains. The estate surrounds Lake Vyrnwy, a reservoir created in 1892 at the end of the nineteenth Century by the Liverpool Corporation to supply clean water to the rapidly growing city – a function it still performs today. At the time, the reservoir was the largest in Europe with the biggest masonry dam ever created. Villagers were re-housed further down the Vyrnwy Valley with a chapel on the edge of the lake the only visible sign of the flooded settlement