A milk round has become the exact opposite of Benny’s Hill’s classic ditty Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West).A brace of mighty Clydesdales took over the delivery in Cumnock on Saturday, their cart stacked high with Gold Standard milk.Included in the round, with milk from Mauchline’s Mossgiel Farm, was East Ayrshire Community Hospital, where staff and patients lapped up the sight of yesteryear.The special delivery was completed as a mark of support for farmers who have to keep at it during the lockdown.The Clydesdales are among 29 of the statuesque workhorses who live at Blackstone Farm, which has been financially crippled by lockdown.Farmers John and Magi Duncan have launched an appeal to raise £5000-a-month to keep the horses and
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