Work on the flood-damaged Brunton Park pitch of Carlisle United Football Club, has started with 15 to 20mm of the existing surface set to be removed ahead of a complete replacement of the turf, due to start at the beginning of next week.
Industry spe
Snowdrops and star gazing, stunning views of the Highlands, inner city allotment veg patches, scenic Scottish burns and sensory flower borders are some of the horticultural highlights in 66 new gardens opening to the public for Scotland’s Gardens in
Etesia UK has announced affordable lease and hire purchase finance options to allow its customers flexibility when purchasing new Etesia and Pellenc machinery.
Designed to give buyers the power to enjoy their Etesia and/or Pellenc machinery straight a
Good, positive news. 
"Commercial building in cities and chancellor’s £12bn pledge to boost infrastructure spending lifts industry’s outlook
Construction firms ended 2015 in party mood after a recovery in housebuilding during December.
According to t
ONE of the UK's first acoustic gardens is to feature at this year's Royal Horticultural Society Malvern Spring Festival.
It will be designed by Pippa Shennan of Wotton-under-Edge, near Stroud, and form part of the Festival Gardens at the event on the
Despite December’s record rainfall, which led to thousands of people being flooded and the highest river levels ever seen in England, water restrictions due to drought could still be imposed in some parts of the country by the summer, say Britain’s l
A RIBBLE Valley business left “devastated” after water wiped out £70,000 worth of stock has been hit by more flooding.
Read Garden Centre was under four feet of water on Boxing Day as flood water affected large parts of the borough.
And more water fl
Overlooking the North Sea, Newburgh on Ythan Golf Club in Aberdeenshire faces the wrath of the ocean’s high tides from time to time. Fortunately for course manager Jim Peace, he has a range of ICL products on hand to help.
Newburgh may have the odd ba
The latest provisional statistics from the Met Office confirm December has broken records both for rainfall and temperature
The month was not only the wettest December on record, but also the wettest calendar month overall since records began in 1910
More than 100,000 small business owners and self-employed workers have joined forces to fight a Government proposal that would force them to file tax returns four times a year instead of annually.
Last week, The Telegraph revealed that complying with
Normal weather is now a “thing of the past”, a leading climate change scientist has said, after storms and heavy rain caused devastating floods in parts of Britain.
December was record-breaking in both warmth and rainfall, according to the Met Off
Shortly before Christmas, the nine rangers who look after the parks and green spaces of Brighton and Hove were sent a text message from their bosses: six will lose their jobs under the Labour council’s austerity budget, a bonfire not of bureaucrats b
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Record breaking rainfall in December puts 2015 in the top ten wettest years on records going back to 1910
Latest early provisional statistics from the Met Office confirm December has been record breaking both for its warmth and rainfall.
The UK mean
This is has already been a record breaking month for rainfall in some parts of the UK, with exceptional amounts of rain falling onto already saturated ground.
The very wet Boxing Day in parts of north Wales and northwest England was well forecast fi
The autumn and winter of 2015 has seen some unseasonably mild weather with day time temperatures remaining in double figures far longer than usual – and even night-time temperatures have remained high.
2015 is now the warmest year on record, thought
The Institute of Groundsmanship (IOG) is recommending a 2.25 per cent increase in grounds staff’s national minimum salary bands for 2016.
The rise not only reflects the steady growth of the UK economy and the expected increase in inflation but will a
A landscaping company and its two directors were sentenced after Russell Meech, a 27 year old landscape gardener was killed when he fell under the wheels of a telescopic handler.
St Albans Crown Court heard how on 18 June 2013 Russell Meech was worki
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