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Despite a positive outlook for the year ahead, business rates and the cost of utilities remain key obstacles to small business growth plans for 2014.

Business organisation, The Forum of Private Business, conducted research on business plans for the y

As communities across the UK continue to be devastated by floods, hard landscaping manufacturer Marshalls asks why local authorities are not enforcing existing Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SuDS) legislation, and questions what is really causing

A new fungicide treatment developed at the University of Sussex is emerging as a weapon in the fight to inhibit growth of Chalara fraxinea, which causes ash dieback, according to initial trials at The Sainsbury Laboratory.

If developed further, it co

Blenheim Palace is home to the 11th Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. The splendour of Capability Brown’s landscaped parkland and the formal gardens are unrivalled in Britain – where better to create a Show

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced funding of nearly £5m towards two natural heritage projects: the UK-wide Saving our Magnificent Meadows and The Great Heath Living Landscape in south west England.

These projects will bring together a var

The first complete map and dataset of Scotland's native woodlands has been produced after an eight year Native Woodland Survey of Scotland (NWSS) carried out by Forestry Commission Scotland.

Thought to be the most comprehensive habitat survey project

An influential group of organisations, landowners and individuals are one step closer to marking the 300th anniversary of the birth of Lancelot Capability Brown with a nationwide festival celebrating his life and influence in 2016.

The Capability Bro

Etesia UK is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Pellenc dealership - Morris’s Stores based in Rhuddlan North Wales, covering the entire North Wales area.

Morris’s Stores was first founded in 1934 and is a family run business. The company fir

The story of a ‘forgotten’ group of British men who set up a horticultural society in a German internment camp is set to be revealed in a new exhibition in October to commemorate the centenary of the start of the First World War.

The story has been

HSE has again teamed up with the Forestry Commission’s Learning and Development team to host two events, which are dedicated to raising awareness of important health and safety issues specific to the forestry industry.

Attendance on the day is free.

The Emerson Country Club in Sejong City, South Korea has recently upgraded its turf maintenance machinery with the delivery of a SISIS Javelin Aer-Aid 1500 tractor mounted aerator by local SISIS dealer Arcwin Co, which has led to six further sales of

A  groundworks company from Crieff has been fined  after a worker had to have a leg amputated when it was crushed whilst working on site.

Gregor Steele, from Perthshire, suffered severe injuries when his left leg was trapped between a tractor pulling

A controversial French biologist, whose 2012 paper on the alleged dangers of pesticides was withdrawn, has published new claims that the chemicals were many times more toxic than advertised.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-01-controversial-sc

If you thought it was a bit wet out this past month, well it was as parts of southern England have had their wettest January on record.

The Met Office said that a large area of southern England, from East Devon to Kent and inland across parts of the

A federation aimed at continuing the work started by community gardeners across the UK has been launched.

The Bloom Federation comprises the RHS and 16 regional and national Britain in Bloom groups.

The aim of the federation is to increase the scale

A new site from the HSE shows what employers need to do to protect their staff when they work at height.

It replaces the guidance previously available in the HSE falls microsite.

Website: Work at height

Natural Resources Wales is inviting people to a community drop in event to find out more about the action it is taking to tackle Larch disease, or Phytophthora ramorum, in the Wye Valley.

Last year, the organisation felled approximately 80 hectares o

Of the latest round of job cuts, some 560 are relationship managers working in the commercial banking arm and working with small businesses, which is half of the team in an area that is being closely watched by politicians concerned about the lack of

Oldham Athletic Football Club has signed a three year supply agreement with Sherriff Amenity for all line marking and paint requirements. The agreement sees the Bowcom GMX line marker and Bowgrass Supreme Plus paint used for line marking duties at th