Grass Clippings

Rooney rips up his garden - to get his lawn looking like Old Trafford

Soccer idol Wayne Rooney is having his £50,000 garden landscaped again - so he can get his lawn just like the turf at Old Trafford.

The footballer brought back workman to rip up the old turf at his £4m mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire so it could be replaced by new grass and under soil heating - believed to be similar to that at the United stadium.  In the grounds Rooney spent £50,000 to turf and design the back and front garden. 

Ginger soaks up the sun in Berkshire

Ginger was terrified and tired.  It was hot, he was in need of a long cold drink he did not get much sleep the night before and now most of all he was unsure of his destiny.  He had heard a mumble that he was in Berkshire - where was that Ginger thought.  Did the people talk with an accent and were they friendly?

Pubs could pump in scent of freshly-mown lawns to mask smell of stale beer and sweat

The smell of freshly mown grass could be pumped into pubs to mask the foul odour of stale beer, sweat and drains that was previously disguised by cigarette smoke reports The Daily Mail.

Ocean breezes, leather and, perhaps surprisingly, tobacco smoke are some of the aromas being tested by Mitchells & Butlers, which manages 2,000 pubs.

BBC 'The One Show' making time for Lawns

You may not be aware, but the great British lawn is under threat. Not only are our lawns facing the effects of climate change, but people have less and less time to manage them.  Lawns are however fascinating to people in the British Isles.