Through this autumn festival of Seed Gathering, The Tree Council aims to inspire everyone, particularly school children and families, to gather seeds, fruits and nuts and grow the trees of the future. The Seed Gathering Season starts on the 23 September (the autumn equinox, considered to be the first day of autumn) and continues until the 23 October, giving everyone plenty of days on which to hold events.
First mounted in 1975, National Tree Week - 26th November - 4th December - is the UK's largest tree celebration annually launching the start of the winter tree planting season.
WHO/Europe's new action plan on drug-resistant tuberculosis could save 120 000 lives. With multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) spreading at an alarming rate across the European continent, the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe has crafted an ambitious plan to arrest the pandemic in its tracks.
As autumn approaches, the daylight hours shorten and the colour green begins to fade from the trees, thousands of people across England, Wales and Northern Ireland will ignore the shrinking temperatures, pull on their trainers and get walking. The reason? To remember...
Celebrity wine connoisseur and TV personality, Oz Clarke, returns to London's world of wine in September for his popular 'Meet the Expert' masterclass at an exclusive Vinopolis tasting event on 17th September 2011.
Daybreak weather presenter Kirsty McCabe is forecasting a day of welly-wearing in the name of charity on Friday 16 September. The new mum, who recently returned to our screens on ITV’s breakfast show, is supporting children's charity Action Medical Research and its Wear your Wellies event.
