Farm where Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne ‘to be restored if £12m can be raised’

Duncan Dornan and Joan McAlpine in The Spence – Robert Burns’ study at Ellisland Farm(Colin Hattersley Photography/PA) -

Campaigners hope the farm where Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne can be saved with an international fundraising appeal seeking to raise £12 million.

Scotland’s bard built Ellisland Farm, near Dumfries, in Dumfries and Galloway, himself aged 29, as a home for his wife and children.