‘They were chilled’: bated breath as beavers released in Northumberland
by Mark Brown North of England correspondent from on (#6CXG0)
Animals make first return to the county in 400 years as National Trust introduces family of four to Wallington estate
It was a genuinely tense tale of the riverbank as a family of four beavers were released into the Northumberland countryside on Wednesday, the first time in more than 400 years that the animals are making the county their home.
Would they even come out of their cages? Would they be as feisty coming out as they apparently were going in? Would they be happy with their new surroundings?
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