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Bridgette said this announcement "shut the door in the face" of farmers who were preparing to apply.

The key is focusing on those who never put more than a toe across the threshold, instead of those who walked all the way in and shut the door behind them.

When they heard the shooting, they were inside and rushed to shut the door, but they were seen by the M23.

But Mr Bradshaw said the closure of the current SFI scheme had "slammed shut" the door for funding for thousands of farmers.

"Then they left. Mathis shut the door and was left on his own, with no help. And that was the beginning of a descent into hell," Mauricette says.