Water levels to 15 May
23 May 2012
Maps are based on data provided by the Environment Agency.
Horticulturists owe a huge professional debt to Victorian plant hunters who risked their lives and sanity trekking to faraway lands, says broadcaster Roy Lancaster.
Heart Research UK has urged British consumers to up their fruit and veg consumption by just one a day for better health.
Defra secretary of state Caroline Spelman will be at the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera's) Chelsea Flower Show display which will outline how the public can help prevent the spread of devastating plant pests and disease in gardens and the countryside.
British watercress farmers have presented the current Earl of Sandwich with a version of the original sandwich, which featured the nutritious leafy vegetable.
Some 19 regions are no longer officially in drought following the wettest April on record and continuing rainfall in May.
The Government has pledged to establish an independent adjudicator to police the Groceries Supply Code of Practice within the next session of parliament.
Plumpton College in East Sussex has cancelled its open day on Saturday 12 May 2012 because car parking fields are too wet.



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