Backbone of Britain: Building the Collessie livestock name - from Clydesdale horses to Suffolk sheep

Not too many livestock prefixes survive for 80 years but the Collessie name is an exception and one that continues to go from strength-to-strength. Ewan Pate reports.

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Backbone of Britain: Building the Collessie livestock name - from Clydesdale horses to Suffolk sheep

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