A last-minute donation by a Russian billionaire helped save the day for the Tarras Valley Nature Reserve scheme.
Alexander Gerko’s gift of £300,000 proved crucial as the deadline approached for the attempted community buy-out of moorland from Buccleuch Estates.
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