A species thought lost from Spurn Point National Nature Reserve has flowered for the first time in 30 years.

Staff believe the reappearance of the bee orchid is due to a new conservation grazing regime.

Cows were controlled via GPS collar and allowed to eat only in specific areas, rather than roaming freely where they were naturally attracted to eating sweet flowers.

It helped to create the “right conditions” for a wide variety of wild flowers to grow on the reserve’s Chalk Bank meadow, which Rosie Jaques, reserve and marine officer, said was an “amazing result”.