Grant helps secure rare wildlife habitat

Male Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) - Photo courtesy André Karwath. Click to enlarge... Used under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License

Male Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) – Photo courtesy André Karwath. Click to enlarge… Used under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License

One of the UK’s rarest

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Would you swim in your local river?

River Wear in Durham.

River Wear in Durham.

More than half (52 per cent) of people questioned would not swim in their local river because they think it is too polluted.  That was the shocking finding from a survey carried out for the Blueprint for Water, a coalition of leading conservation groups.

The survey, carried out by ComRes, also found 97

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