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Create contrast in your borders, says ALAN TITCHMARSH

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 00:01:00 +0100

You may be busy planting out summer bedding this weekend, but there is another group of plants that are well worth establishing now – those with grey and silver foliage. Being covered in fine, silky hairs they deeply resent cold, wet weather, but the more arid conditions of June, July and August are much more to their liking.

Talk to the animals? They are already chatting away says JOHN INGHAM

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 09:05:00 +0100

HUMANS like to think they are pretty special. And one skill which gives us the edge over other species is our ability to have a conversation. Indeed, many of us are confirmed chataholics. We all know people who only seem happy when talking - no matter what nonsense pours out of their mouth.

We are seeing the slow death of the department store, says ROSS CLARK

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 08:25:00 +0100

THERE was a time when the closure of an Oxford Street department store would have been huge news. Back in the 1970s, when Are You Being Served? was on the television, the department store was still a national institution.

Our stoic PM battles on to deliver Brexit as promised - EXPRESS COMMENT

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 07:51:00 +0100

AND still she soldiers on, this remarkably stoic Prime Minister, as she battles to prove that Brexit means Brexit. The pragmatic Mrs May has managed to avert a potentially catastrophic fall-out with Brexit Secretary David Davis yesterday over the issue of the soft Irish border.

Beachcomber: 101 years old and still an authority on everything

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 03:37:00 +0100

A YOUNG lady just rang me and asked whether I was aware that 79 per cent of people bluff about things about which they know nothing. “I am not surprised,” I said.

These attacks on elderly women shame our nation - EXPRESS COMMENT

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 12:10:00 +0100

The attacks on two elderly women in this country absolutely beggar belief. Yesterday was the anniversary of D-Day, the day that marks the supreme sacrifice of a generation that freed us from tyranny and that utterly selflessly put the interests of their country before themselves. And for what?

A shocking crime that comes as no surprise

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 11:28:00 +0100

THE truly dreadful case of knife killer James Wright, jailed for life for the wanton murder of Craig McClelland, cruelly exposes, yet again, the worrying lack of talent, experience and, above all, “grip” in the ministerial ranks of the Scottish Government and probably, also, in the officials who serve it. Wright had no business being at large to stab and kill this father of three. He should have been in jail.

Welby’s worship of European Union is nonsensical, says LEO McKINSTRY

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 09:10:00 +0100

JUSTIN Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is a woeful spiritual leader. Under his failing stewardship the decline of the Anglican Church has continued to accelerate.

Day I was menaced by moped criminals – VIRGINIA BLACKBURN

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 08:16:00 +0100

LORDY, what a terrifying place our streets are becoming and nowhere more so than when crimes on mopeds take place. I first heard of this phenomenon when I visited Naples more than a decade ago.

Beachcomber: 101 years old and still buzzing with excitement

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 05:44:00 +0100

THE MOST intriguing piece of research I have encountered this week is a paper by researchers from Australia and France on numerical ability in bees. Entitled “Numerical ordering of zero in honey bees,” it reports an experiment showing bees have a full understanding of the concept of “zero”.