The other week, maverick designer Diarmuid Gavin advised gardeners that they would have to roll with the weather to ensure their gardens survived and thrived the extremes.

The state of Alaska is trying to drum up publicity for its offer to pay some of the cost of exploratory drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but the… Click to Continue »

Average prices went up by 2.4 per cent compared to a year earlier, according to the Office for National Statistics' consumer prices index - but that was down from a rate of 2.8 per cent in March, and considerably lower than had been expected by analysts.