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Flora and fauna: No more digging for once plentiful pignuts

Flora and fauna: No more digging for once plentiful pignuts

ByTeesdale MercuryJun 9, 20213 min read

Pignuts (Conopodium majus)“HERE we go gathering nuts in May,” says the nursery rhyme; but what kind of nuts are ripe in May? The answer is the pignut, or earthnut, or…

Test Drive: The New Dacia Sandero Stepway

Test Drive: The New Dacia Sandero Stepway

ByTeesdale MercuryJun 9, 20213 min read

Ian Lamming counts the pennies in the remarkable Dacia Sandero Stepway, proof you can get more than you pay for THIS is the madness of the automotive world in which…

Show marks return of theatre to Barningham Village Hall

Show marks return of theatre to Barningham Village Hall

ByTeesdale MercuryJun 8, 20213 min read

THE re-opening of Barningham Village Hall after lockdown will be celebrated on Saturday, June 12, by a dramatic one-man show based on the iconic Edwardian working class novel The Ragged…

Grouse moors are protecting peatland’

Grouse moors are protecting peatland’

ByTeesdale MercuryJun 7, 20212 min read

THE Moorland Association has welcomed the publication of the England Peat Action Plan saying that grouse moors will continue to play an important role in improving and protecting peatland for…