Twenty-five years ago, the Midlands villages of Moira, Donisthorpe and Overseal overlooked a gruesome landscape. The communities were surrounded by opencast mines, old clay quarries, spoil heaps, derelict coal workings, polluted waterways and all the
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Popular aquatic plant water hyacinth will soon disappear from UK ponds after the European Commission finally published its list of species of EU wide concern, as part of the Invasive Alien Species Regulation.
The list effectively bans long-term sale
SALTEX 2016’s all-encompassing and free-to-attend LEARNING LIVE programme is set to explore what impact leaving the European Union will have on the industry, when the exhibition opens its doors at the NEC, Birmingham on the 2 and 3 November.
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The 2015/16 Sky Bet Championship Groundsman of the Season, Nathan Scarff, has praised his fleet of Dennis cylinder mowers.
As a leading British manufacturer of innovative professional grounds maintenance equipment, Dennis helps groundsmen, greenkeeper
As the summer holidays take hold, national trade body The Property Care Association (PCA) has issued a timely warning on the dangers associated with Giant Hogweed.
Last year a number of children were reported to have sustained injuries after coming i
My garden hedge is full of empty nests. The blackbirds have fledged, twice, and so have the dunnocks. Successfully fending off sparrowhawks and cats, their exhausted parents are now enjoying a well-earned holiday. In the fields beyond our home, thoug
HMRC snaffled an additional £470m from probes into the tax affairs of small businesses last year, according to data gleaned by UHY Hacker Young.
The firm has warned SMEs that they could come under greater scrutiny as the taxman looks to up its tax ta
The world is careening towards an environment never experienced before by humans, with the temperature of the air and oceans breaking records, sea levels reaching historic highs and carbon dioxide surpassing a key milestone, a major international rep
French investigators have found a large number of diesel cars emit much higher levels of pollution than their European manufacturers claim.
The claims were revealed by France’s environment ministry after a 10-month investigation ordered following the
Garry Watson, head groundsman at King Edward’s School in Birmingham, has chosen the SISIS Brush-Pro ride-on brushing system, for all his synthetic surface maintenance.
Situated on a beautiful 50 acre site in Edgbaston Park Road Birmingham, lies two es
Turf Rewards, the loyalty scheme from ICL and Syngenta, provides the opportunity for customers to earn points from purchases that can then be exchanged against a fantastic selection of agronomic or turf related items and learning opportunities, inclu
The Shetland Islands will kill off its weeds with hot water instead of using chemical weedkillers such as glyphosate based products.
The decision has been made to ask grounds staff to use the Cardley Wave Mid Series system on pavement areas across th
The establishment of community gardens in inner city areas can boost social and ecological sustainability, suggest researchers.
A study found those that produced food were the ones most likely to deliver "win-win" scenarios.
Urban green spaces manage
A London borough council has been fined after a road worker suffered serious injury whilst cutting trees.
Southwark Crown Court heard how an employee of London Borough of Havering sustained a serious cut injury just above his left knee after a Sthil
The world’s most widely used insecticide is an inadvertent contraceptive for bees, cutting live sperm in males by almost 40%, according to research. The study also showed the neonicotinoid pesticides cut the lifespan of the drones by a third.
The sci
French tyre manufacture Michelin said Tuesday it had raised prices in Britain to tread on the creation of a black market in tyres in response to a falling pound following the Brexit vote.
The company's financial director Marc Henry said the direct im
Doug McGeoch, owner of McGeoch’s Gardening Services, is the proud and first new owner of a range of Pellenc battery powered tools on the Isle of Wight.
Over the past two years Etesia UK, the exclusive UK distributor of Pellenc, has reported a drama
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A man has been rushed to hospital after he was struck by a council van while sunbathing in an east London park.
The man, believed to be in his 30s, was rushed to hospital with a head injury after he was struck by a van in the barbecue area of London
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