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Council prepares greening strategy for cabinet meeting
6/10/2025 Gloucester City Council’s Urban Greening Strategy will be considered by cabinet members this week. |
Councils could be forbidden from using destructive pesticides in parks
4/25/2025 MPs will today debate a proposal that could see the use of 'toxic' weedkillers by councils banned. |
Second council U-turns on pesticide use
2/1/2024 Cambridgeshire County Council has agreed to reintroduce chemical weed killer, following Brighton's recent call to recommence pesticide treatment. |
A war on pesticides?
7/10/2019 With 40 councils now banning the use of Roundup over safety fears, Mark Whitehead finds out why the debate on using chemicals to kill weeds continues to rage. |
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Council secures UK’s first Japanese Knotweed prosecution
12/7/2018 A Bristol property owner has become the first person to be prosecuted for failing to control the spread of Japanese Knotweed. |
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The cost of glyphosate-based weed killers
7/26/2017 While some councils may be banning the use of glyphosate-based herbicides, others still advocate their use to control weeds. William Eichler investigates. |
