Farmer Jim Jones, 26, from Worthen, used a tractor to make sure he got to his wedding on time.

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Beef and sheep farmer Jim Candy, from south east Cornwall, said OPs damaged his nervous system and left him "walking wounded".

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Jim Hosking, a daffodil farmer, has found that as unemployment has dropped in Cornwall, the local labour pool has dried up.

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Meanwhile, local farmers and businesses recruited the 47-year-old Mr. Vidak, a third-generation Valley farmer who narrowly lost his challenge to Democratic Rep. Jim Costa in 2010, to run on the Republican ticket.

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