A herd of 14 donkeys have been rescued from dreadful conditions where there was very little food and their field was full of plastics and hazards.
So thousands of folk who don't know any better turned out to see this year's camel parade in South Shields despite our MP Emma Lewel-Buck backing a nationwide campaign for the outdated practice not to go ahead.
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