February 7, 2026

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Category : Country Life

Students sign up to save rare dale flowers

Students sign up to save rare dale flowers

ByTeesdale MercuryApr 10, 2022

STUDENTS at Teesdale School will look into why many of the upper dale’s unique flowers are under threat as part of £222,000 scheme to save plants from extinction.Members of the…

Meet the new-born donkey rarer than a giant panda

Meet the new-born donkey rarer than a giant panda

ByMartin PaulApr 9, 2022

STAFF and volunteers at a dale rescue centre are celebrating after the birth of a rare pygmy donkey.Wetheriggs Animal Rescue’s matriarch Mediterranean pygmy donkey, Cara, gave birth to a jack…

Flora and fauna: A cure for nosebleeds… and baldness?

Flora and fauna: A cure for nosebleeds… and baldness?

ByTeesdale MercuryApr 1, 2022

Yarrow Achillea millefolium Millfoil, NosebleedYARROW is an attractive white, or, rarely, pink-flowered plant of the daisy family (Asteraceae). It is common on grassland, waste ground and in pastures.It is found…

Upper dale farm charity ‘busier than ever’

Upper dale farm charity ‘busier than ever’

ByTeesdale MercuryMar 23, 2022

“WE’RE doing everything we did before – and more.” That’s the message from charity Utass (Upper Teesdale Agricultural Support Services) to farmers worried that it has cut back on agricultural…

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