BREAKING MOOS

One of Scotland’s oldest native cattle breeds was trending across the UK on Twitter after political journalist Robert Peston tweeted a photo asking what the ‘woolly and striped’ animals he’d spotted were. Some suggestions included ‘panda coos’, ‘Oreo cows’, ‘mammoth badgers’, ‘humbug cows’ and intriguingly ‘zebra crossed with a bison’. Fortunately, however, most correctly named the breed of cattle as Belted Galloways, a common sight across Dumfries and Galloway.