Malcolm Thornborrow and the team from Dawyck have raised just shy of £10,000 for RSABI following the sale of the two Scotch Mule lambs heroically rescued by Marian Porter at lambing time.

Gary Thornborrow and his fiancée Marian Porter, rose to global farming fame when they saw a Blackface ewe in distress desperately looking for her lambs under a small deep tunnelled bridge with a raging burn. With no way out, Marian attempted a daring rescue mission to save them. She crawled deep into the tunnel and eventually emerged triumphant, soaked to the skin and with two healthy lambs.

Little did she know that Gary videoed the whole procedure and put it out on social media which in turn went viral.

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Such has been the interest in the story, that the Thornborrows who farm in Peebleshire, decided to offer the rescued Scotch Mule ewe lamb for breeding at the Crossing Crackers online sale through Harrison and Hetherington, with all the proceeds donated to the Royal Scottish Agricultural Benevolent Fund (RSABI). The ewe lamb made £750, to Dalscone Farm Park, Dumfries.

The team then decided to donate the ewe lamb's twin mate, a wedder to Dalscone thereby enabling the pair to remain together, in return for public donations to RSABI through a Just Giving page.

To date, almost £10,000 has been raised and there are still another two weeks of the just giving page https://ow.ly/IqA850T7iYp