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…

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…

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…