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Tim Daw, an innovative farmer from Devizes, Wiltshire, spent over £200,000 of his hard earned cash building the UK’s first ‘long barrow’ tomb in over than 5,000 years. Now he’s being charged “thousands of pounds in business rates” according to a report in The Telegraph. The controversial burial ground, which is used to store the ashes of deceased Pagans came under the scrutiny of the Valuation Office Agency, who wrote to Mr Daw demanding “he pay £4,500 to £5,000 a year in business rates for his burial mound where people pay to inter the ashes of their loved ones.” Mr Daw said the decision means “mourners visiting his tomb will have to “pay to pray” and that the move discriminates