Countryfile or Towniefile?

While the television show has become a Sunday night institution over the past 27 years and is regularly watched in six million homes, it is not going down well on the farm.

Furious herdsmen and cereal growers have ploughed into the BBC, saying the show is aimed at urban audiences and have taken to social media to brand it "Towniefile" and "Countryfool".

The farming community says the show is ignoring serious agricultural issues for light-hearted, fluffy stories rather than highlighting issues that trouble the estimated 460,000 people working in British agriculture. Express.