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Vinnie Jones

“AROUND here, we’ve got various trusts looking after nature. Well this is the Vinnie Trust,” grins Vinnie Jones, arms stretched out towards the 150 acres of Sussex he calls home. Although he is smiling broadly, Jones is deadly serious. “All this is for my grandchildren. It is so important to protect the natural world we have around us,” he says.

He might be best known as the hard-tackling professional football player turned Hollywood actor, but Jones’s boyish excitement as he points out the sparrowhawk that has made his fields her hunting ground is touching. Equally heartfelt is his sadness that

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