Archive for the ‘Donkey News’ Category

Donkey helps hospice - 27th December, 2011
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CHRISTMAS COLLECTION: Dominiquie Barnsley-Staight collects with Christie the donkey and Becky Miller from Old Northwick Stables. Picture by Nick Toogood. A LITTLE donkey was greeting festive shoppers and helping collect money for a city hospice. The seven-month-old female donkey – who started the day without a name – was accompanying a group of volunteers and [...]


Man, donkey cover 2,200 km on long walk home - 21st December, 2011
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A 34-year-old migrant worker, who works in East China’s Zhejiang province, is walking with his donkey more than 2,400 kilometers to get back home after buying it in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, Yangtze Evening Post reported Thursday. Zhuang works at a construction site and often has to carry heavy loads on his shoulders walking uphill. [...]


AWAY IN A MANGER: STABLE ACCOMODATION AT JUST £12 A NIGHT B&B - 7th December, 2011
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By Alasdair Glennie Abbi Broadbent with Buggins the donkey who will help guests act out their own version of the Nativity WITH wireless internet, electric heating and a kettle, this stable is slightly more luxurious than the one used by Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem. Guests at the £12-a-night B&B will still be expected to bed [...]


Lamu Donkey Race - 28th November, 2011
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By Patrick Beja The annual Lamu cultural festival ended on a high note on Sunday with residents and hoteliers showing optimism it could have put tourism in the region on the recovery path. In a show of solidarity with residents, visitors from Nairobi were reported to have taken up 80 per cent of the hotelbookings [...]