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Revealed: the Scots farmers made millionaires by EU subsidies

Four farmers in Scotland were given record handouts of more than £1 million each by ­taxpayers last year, the Sunday Herald has uncovered.

They join the elite club of Europe’s ­agricultural “subsidy millionaires” who take the most from the public purse to help run their huge farming businesses.