BBC Countryfile Magazine

Sara Maitland

It’s hard to write broadly about the first signs of spring in the UK because they vary, both in date and in detail, across – or more precisely, up and down – the country.

"The Shetland Isles are just over 700 miles north of Land’s End – or over 700 miles further from the equator and therefore, obviously, over 700

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