Country Life

REUSABLE Barnard Castle Farmers' Market branded shopping bags are proving popular with customers to the monthly event.The bags were designed...

FULL services have been restored at the Bowlees Visitor Centre with the return of the information centre, indoor dining, the...

A DAY'S fishing on fly-only Hury reservoir took an unusual turn for a dale angler.At first, Shane Jackson simply thought...

A HEBRIDEAN sheep named Miss Piggy due to her voracious appetite may be one of the oldest of the breed...

Teasel (Dipsacus sativus) Fuller's teasel, Brushes-and-combsTEASEL is a large plant, up to six feet high, and common on waste ground,...

Pignuts (Conopodium majus)"HERE we go gathering nuts in May," says the nursery rhyme; but what kind of nuts are ripe...

THE Moorland Association has welcomed the publication of the England Peat Action Plan saying that grouse moors will continue to...

HISTORIC Raby Castle provided a dramatic drop for the passing of a baton as part of an equine fundraising relay.The...

TEESDALE'S famous blue spring gentian and some other rare plants are disappearing fast from the upper dale, according to the...

Greater Stitchwort Rabelera holostea (Stellaria holostea)GREATER stitchwort is a member of the pink family, the Caryophyllaceae. Although a number of...