David Handley, from Farmers For Action, described the meeting as positive, but added "the proof of the pudding will be when they deliver a sustainable milk price to dairy farmers".

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Mr Pirks added the report was proof "at last" of what the resident's association had been saying for four years.

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But he added there was "no proof, no trace" of the alleged secret payments.

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