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How to avoid a fool’s errand in the garden according to ALAN TITCHMARSH

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 16:23:00 +0000

As a horticultural agony aunt earlier in my career, I came across most of the foolish things that folks do in or to their gardens. Common landscaping accidents come top of the list.

Beaten, lame and half-starved: The donkeys that need our help

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 15:16:00 +0000

MAURITANIA? Where’s that? Is it near Mauritius? This was the most frequent response when I told friends where I was going last week. Others looked vague and then brightened up, saying: “Have a good holiday!” You wouldn’t go to Mauritania for a holiday.

How we can help our high street shops to survive, says TIM NEWARK

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 14:41:00 +0000

FOR the third year now profits are tumbling at Next and they're not the only ones. Many high street retailers are affected by a perfect storm of sky-high rents and rates and internet mega-traders that don't face the same costs.

Theresa May has some tough decisions ahead of EU independence says MACER HALL

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 13:02:00 +0000

INDEPENDENCE DAY is fast approaching.

The unauthorised biography of Prince Charles comes off as vicious say RICHARD AND JUDY

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:54:00 +0000

READING the latest unauthorised biography of Prince Charles - Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion And Defiance Of Prince Charles, by veteran hack biographer Tom Bower - has made me feel slightly sick.

Jeremy Corbyn's Putin reservations are gathering supporters says JENNIFER SELWAY

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 08:23:00 +0000

JEREMY CORBYN's reluctance to believe that Vladimir Putin is responsible for the poisoning of the Skripals has some supporters.

Laura Harris' terminal cancer experience shows the pitfalls of the NHS - EXPRESS COMMENT

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 07:26:00 +0000

The tragic story of Laura Harris is testament both to the strengths and the weaknesses of the National Health Service.

Taking care of a flowering currant is tricky but rewarding says ALAN TITCHMARSH

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 00:01:00 +0000

THERE are a few plants to which we have a sentimental attachment.

EU summit: Theresa May turns crisis into opportunity, says MACER HALL

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:37:00 +0000

THERESA May has come a long way since her excruciating 'Trixie-No-Mates' act in Brussels a little over a year ago. Back in December 2016, the Prime Minister cut an awkward and lonely figure at an EU Council summit held as the outcome of Britain’s Brexit referendum still reverberated around the continent.

It is right and fitting to take great pride in this nation of ours, says FREDERICK FORSYTH

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:24:00 +0000

THERE is a phrase of only seven words in our language: it makes you proud to be British. But such is the contemporary spirit of the age that it is wise to affect a plummy Colonel Blimp accent if ever saying that, to reveal the speaker is only joking because no one really could be.