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F1 boss meets milk farmers to avoid Spa blockade
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone met disgruntled Belgian dairy farmers on Saturday after fears they could blockade the country's grand prix circuit in a campaign for higher milk prices. The 84-year-old Briton talked to a farmers' leader in front of a plastic cow in the fan village at the Spa circuit and then chugged from a litre of milk — jokingly pretending to faint as he did so. A police spokesman said the farmers had agreed not to stage a more serious protest, such as blocking access roads, in return for being allowed to make a symbolic gesture and meet Ecclestone. Ecclestone said he had not been worried by that: 'They wouldn't block the roads,' he told reporters when asked...
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