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The rootling of the pigs provides opportunities for native flora and shrubs to germinate, including sallow, and this has given rise to the biggest colony of purple emperors in Britain, one of our rarest butterflies, which lays its eggs on sallow leaves.

Rootling around in the archives, he found a letter from the beginning of the 20th century from the Tranquillo expert Giorgio Nicodemi asking a collector to publish his portrait of Contessa di Bricherasio, but the owner declined.

Did you take photos?' she asked, rootling in her handbag.

It gives us the chance to go where a nesting chaffinch goes, or a rootling mole.

So I'm rootling round the internet, trying to compare all the faux ones, and getting frustrated about just how few fit the bill.

I can attest to this, having spent the last month rootling through submissions for the Islamic Business & Finance Awards.

"Rootling" is a collection of poetry from Katie Donovan on the many types of hunger that push us through life looking for that satisfaction.

BBC One Wales, Monday 9.15pm Rootling about in your family history is an obsession shared by most of the peoples of the globe, so it's no surprise to find that the formatof this popular British show has been snapped up across the Atlantic.