rECOrd (Local Biological Records Centre)

It provides a local facility for the storage, validation and usage of Cheshire-based biological data under the National Biodiversity Network (NBN) project.

It is one of a number of local Biological Records Centres across Britain which together aim to give complete geographic coverage of the UK.

This access aims to inform, educate and to provide real data upon which environmentalists, ecologists and planners, and other individuals and organisations can base decisions.

David Bellamy is the organisation's patron, and Gordon McGregor Reid is its president.

rECOrd began its development in October 2000, managed by Steve J. McWilliam, and was fully launched on 12 July 2002 when it was formally opened by Sir Martin Doughty of English Nature.

Cardamine pratensis (Cuckoo Flower or Lady's Smock), a flowering plant of the family Brassicaceae, is the county flower of Cheshire ( Plantlife competition).