Acorn director Caroline Bell inside the luxury cowshed which is being built
A North-East dairy is building a luxury cowshed, complete with automatic hairbrushes, foot spas and foam mattresses.
Bosses at the Acorn Dairy, at Archdeacon Newton, near Darlington, believe happy cows produce more milk.
Up to 200 extra dairy shorthorn crosses will be housed in the new facility providing an additional 1.3 million litres of milk a year for doorstep and commercial customers across the region, from Tyne and Wear to Yorkshire.
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