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Employers who do not pay workers the national minimum wage and the National Living Wage will face tougher penalties under plans outlined by the government.

These include doubling penalties for non-payment and disqualifying employers from being a comp

A portrait showing a smiling Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown has been selected as the new face of the 2016 festival celebrating the 300th anniversary of his birth.

Brown, often called the ‘father of landscape architecture,’ changed the national landscape

Highlights:

· Revenue up 11% to £199.1 million (2014: £180.0 million)

• · Improvement in operating margins to 11.1% (2014: 8.7%)
• · Profit before tax up 48% to £20.8 million (2014: £14.0 million)
• · Return on capital employed for the year ended 30 June

A LOG pile that became a breeding ground for beetles has led to the chopping down of 14 elms and put others at risk of disease.

The outbreak of Dutch elm disease is being treated as a “matter of urgency” after it came to light last week.

Experts h

Three pesticides banned in Europe for their potential to damage bee populations could pose an even greater threat than was thought, according to a new assessment by the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa).

Already proscribed for seed treatments a

Tobermore has supplied an expanse of beautiful paving products that have been used to create the breath-taking new landscape at the University of Hertfordshire. Designed by the Landmark Practice, the University has been announced as a winner at this

Everris has announced an addition to its H2Pro range with the launch of a new product called DewSmart, which has been designed to prevent or reduce the formation of dew on grass leaf.

The forming of dew on grass blades can be problematic for turf mana

A session at the Confor Woodland Show aims to attract landowners and woodland agents interested in generating income from the carbon being absorbed by their or their clients' growing trees, and doing their bit to tackle climate change into the bargai

A mixed-use development at the centre of Singapore’s business district aims to become its signature real estate development. Its brief is to define new standards of luxury urban living and to create an international benchmark for design and sustainab

Five specialist local nurseries, each with a national reputation, are coming together for a rather special plant fair at Wimborne’s Knoll Gardens on Saturday 12 September.

For keen gardeners the east Dorset fair provides the opportunity to buy top qu

A giant plant has burst free from its conservatory at Kew Gardens following an astonishing growth spurt.

The Dasylirion wheeleri, also known as the spoon flower, grew an incredible 18ins in 24 hours, forcing staff to remove a glass pane from the roo

A recent new machine purchase has recently been added to the fleet here at South Lincs Grass Care.

Our new British manufactured Teagle Dynamo 150 rear discharge finishing mower (pictured below) has a cutting width of 5 feet and has a cutting height fu

Mark Rayner has returned to the area he was brought up in after being announced as Sherriff Amenity’s new amenity specialist for Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.

Mark has been in the industry for an impressive 25 years and his striking CV includes position

Redexim bv, the parent company of Charterhouse Turf Machinery, have reached an agreement to purchase the assets of BLEC Global Ltd. The deal includes the purchase of the BLEC name and means that the products will continue to be traded around the worl

The David Colegrave Foundation (DCF) Scholarship Season opens next month, giving young horticulturists five months to apply for a scholarship.

This year’s scholarships include the Markham - Colegrave International Scholarship Award which offers $4,50

Healthy Agapanthus flowerhead and infested Agapanthus flowerhead

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is calling on gardeners to help it learn more about a new insect that is attacking Agapanthus plants.

The pest, which the RHS has named ‘agapanthus

In 2014, St. Austell Bowling Club in Cornwall graced over 3,000 bowlers. With such an inundated fixture list, only the finest turf maintenance machinery would make this possible and the Dennis FT510 ensured that the reputable bowling club could keep

A .pdf guide has been produced by Defra explaining the UK's plan on how to minimise the risks posed by invasive non-native species.

The strategy sets out key aims and actions for addressing the threats posed by invasive non-native species.

It aims to

The study of fossil pollen grains by a group of researchers, including Kew scientists, revealed the daisy family, Asteraceae, to be 20 million years older than previously assumed.

Asteraceae are the single most diverse family of flowering plants, mad

US scientists have identified the chemicals responsible for the mosquito-repelling activity of sweetgrass, a plant traditionally used by some Native Americans to fend off the bugs.

In laboratory tests, two sweetgrass compounds drove mosquitoes away f