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‘golden girl’ Selina Scott is preparing to be buried under an avalanche of slurry when she next ventures onto the lanes around her yorkshire farmhouse. The broadcaster-turned-animal rights campaigner has just helped pilot the animal Welfare Bill through the Commons, which will end the practice of shipping live animals to the Continent for slaughter. But as many of her neighbours are farmers who have grown rich on this trade, she’s now become their public enemy number one. ‘I’m keeping a weather eye open for the muck spreaders and a bucket load of it to be dropped on me any day now,’ she tells me. ‘I’ve got my wellies and waterproof ready.’