Time is running out for Newcastle upon Tyne's botanic garden, home to a collection of rare plants once used for research into projects as diverse as water conservation and drugs for dementia.
When the city's university leaves the Moorbank site it has occupied for 90 years, heating to the five glasshouses will be switched off, visitors turned away and, say the volunteers who are fighting for renewal of the lease, a valuable resource in the heart of the city will be lost.
The Guardian: Plants at risk as Moorbank botanic garden changes hands
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