Our thanks to Frank for this. An extract:

“Former farmer Charlie Lillington took part in the recent bootcamp, focused on women and held shortly after International Women’s Day. Lillington had experience with heavy machinery, and saw the programme as a way into a new profession, with better wages and hours than her previous career.

“I’d put the message out there to any woman, if you’re good at something, go for it. It is a male-dominated industry at the moment, but the more of us that join, the less it will be.””

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