Burns's home seeks funds for restoration

ELLISLAND FARM, the place where Robert Burns created the New Year's Eve 'anthem' Auld Lang Syne, is now in such poor condition after suffering from decades of underinvestment that an ambitious $12 million appeal has been launched by the Robert Burns Ellisland Trust to save it.

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The Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne campaign aims to raise enough funds to sympathetically repair and restore the Category A-listed building near Dumfries, which has fallen victim to damp, decay and structural deterioration. The trust also plans to turn Ellisland Farm into a wo