Stories From Round Our Way

The toll of worsening weather on Aberdeenshire farmers, who’ve seen hundreds of pigs lost


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Here’s the second part of our Stonehaven mini-series. The first voice is Geordie Mair, who’s been living on the North East coast of Scotland for almost 80 years. He’s living in a tide cottage, and while he showed us around his little garden patch he told me about how the storms have been getting worse and worse, particularly over the past few years. The second half is our conversation with the pig farmer Derek Ambrose, who lost hundreds of pigs in the storms over the last year. He said in 25 years he’s never seen it this bad. Both of these conversations took place on the farmland overlooking the cliffs referred to by Wes in the previous episode.

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