Trees take eight to 10 years to grow to full size, which means losing any to disease can set farmers back by years.

Christmas tree growers in Atlantic Canada are monitoring the spread of a disease and looking for ways to combat it.

A welder who set a pub on fire after taking part in a "monumentally stupid" Christmas party "prank" has been given a suspended jail sentence. Tony Button, 49, of Owen Close, Kempston, helped another ...