Orchids extracted
Monday 01 February 1993 00:02 GMT
CommentsMore than 2,000 wild orchids have been saved from being bulldozed under an extension of the M3 in Hampshire. Countryside rangers dug up each one by hand from a bank at Shawford Down, near Winchester, Hampshire, and transplanted them to a safe part of the down.
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