Carl Peters-Bond is a leech farmer at Biopharm Leeches, near Swansea, which ships the creatures to hospitals across the world. Mr Peters-Bond said the company's leeches have probably saved ...

The medicinal leech was once widespread in Britain but its numbers have declined dramatically.

A rare breed of blood-sucking leech is being bred at London Zoo in a bid to save the UK’s largest native leech ... “Leeches are like a canary of the pond world. "If we can get it right for ...