Never mind what officials say, we're in a drought. My locality has endured weeks without significant rain. Coningsby, Lincs, where the record 40.3c was reached, is 22 miles from our house. Our lawns, ...

More people are buying buddleia for their gardens, but it's classified as an invasive species and is a problem on British railways. It's hard to walk by a railway line in Britain and not see buddleia.

These are the scenes as emergency services have closed a Cardiff road after reports of an "unsafe building". People at the scene in Four Elms Road said a large plant, almost the size of a tree, had ...