Geoff Robinson Photography

Britain's bumper cherry crop

PIC SHOWS OLIVIA BRADSHAW ,9,PICKING CHERRIES IN AN ORCHARD NEAR OUNDLE,CAMBS... Britain has got its best crop of cherries for more than a DECADE thanks to the warm spring weather which helped the fruit flourish and ripen...Trees across the UK are laden with an abundance of delicious cherries after weeks of sunshine helped produce a bumper crop...The lack of rain means the cherries are SMALLER this year, but experts say the fruit is much SWEETER than normal due to the perfect continental growing conditions...Food campaigners, who are celebrating National Cherry Day on Saturday (July 16)say it is great news for British cherries, which are in danger of dying out because 90 per cent of the UK's orchards have been lost over the past 50 years..."It is a fantastic year for cherries and they are in abundance on the trees this year," said Mark Bradshaw, manager of The National Trust's garden at Lyveden New Bield in Oundle, Northamptonshire, which has a cherry orchard...SEE COPY CATCHLINE Britain's bumper cherry crop

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PIC SHOWS OLIVIA BRADSHAW ,9,PICKING CHERRIES IN AN ORCHARD NEAR OUNDLE,CAMBS... Britain has got its best crop of cherries for more than a DECADE thanks to the warm spring weather which helped the fruit flourish and ripen...Trees across the UK are laden with an abundance of delicious cherries after weeks of sunshine helped produce a bumper crop...The lack of rain means the cherries are SMALLER this year, but experts say the fruit is much SWEETER than normal due to the perfect continental growing conditions...Food campaigners, who are celebrating National Cherry Day on Saturday (July 16)say it is great news for British cherries, which are in danger of dying out because 90 per cent of the UK's orchards have been lost over the past 50 years..."It is a fantastic year for cherries and they are in abundance on the trees this year," said Mark Bradshaw, manager of The National Trust's garden at Lyveden New Bield in Oundle, Northamptonshire, which has a cherry orchard...SEE COPY CATCHLINE Britain's bumper cherry crop