In reply to Osiris:
Seen a friend just now and apparently the next farmers up to them burnt the mountain out yesterday, the controled burn went a bit out of control! Panic stations when it got to the forestry and they phoned the foretry felling operators to come and move their machines, but luckily no damage done, apart from the mountain gone.
Looked up the valley yesterday afternoon and thought the sky looked a bit odd, a few miles away from here, very red and smoky looking clouds, now I know. Think they have to finish burning by April 1st so they have all been waiting for a bit of dry weather and a rush now.
Still, so long as the grouse moors and rich landowners have all the bad publicity, the hill farmers can carry on as always.