HORSES will be back for this year’s Bowes Show, organisers have confirmed. Equine events were missing when the show returned post-Covid last September, not for any pandemic-related reasons but because…

Wood anemone Anemone nemorosa WOOD anemone flowers in March, when a six inch leafy stem emerges from a thin, woody underground rhizome. The leaves are tri-lobed, and bear a single…

THE Upper Teesdale Botany Group is organising an extensive summer programme of field work to mark its 20th anniversary.The group surveys the upper dale to monitor rare plants and flowers,…

WOOL from upland sheep is being used in a trial project to restore valuable peatlands in Teesdale.For the trial, the North Pennines AONB Partnership has commissioned a dale farmer to…