Madonna breeding rare sheeps
Madonna and Guy Ritchie have fallen so in love with country life that they have started breeding sheep.
The couple are hoping their celebrity name will help to sell a rare breed of lamb called Polled Dorsets.
News that the stars have some woolly friends emerged during a hearing into ramblers’ rights to roam across their country estate.
Madonna‘s £9 million country retreat is a working estate with a nationally renowned shoot.
Ramblers should not be allowed to walk across it, a public planning inquiry heard.
Philip Eddell, a consultant estate manager for the popstar’s 1,200-acre Ashcombe House, on the Dorset/Wiltshire border, told the inquiry the impact of allowing public access to 12 plots of land would be “devastating”.
“The impact on the estate of having the land shown on the provisional map included as open country would be devastating,” said Mr Eddell.
The singer and her film director husband Guy Ritchie claim around 100 acres of land at Ashcombe House, in Tollard Royal, has been inaccurately classified as open country on a provisional map.
Source: ITV.com