FOURTEEN cows and a score of pigs were led to safety at Church Farm, Evenwood, County Durham, yesterday, when fire destroyed a stone barn and byre.
Large quantities of hay, corn and poultry feeding stuffs were lost and a tractor was burned out.
Until the arrival of the fire brigade, neighbours fought the flames with a bucket chain and water from the farmyard water pump.
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