Blue dawn for UK's rarest butterfly
A flower-strewn hillside overlooking the valley made famous by writer Laurie Lee is set to become a flagship site for the UK's rarest butterfly - the previously extinct Large Blue. Rough Bank sits in the Slad Valley in the Cotswolds, a landscape evocatively brought alive in Lee's autobiographical novel Cider with Rosie. The site has been acquired by Butterfly Conservation who plan to re ...