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• ‘Is this what people wear now?’ Sewing Bee host criticises M&S jumpers and socks

  18-05-2024 15:04
  
  Patrick Grant says rise of low-cost retailers means new clothes ‘haven’t got cheaper, they’ve just got worse’While filming The Great British Sewing Bee, the presenter and clothing entrepreneur Patrick Grant found himself in need of a pair of black socks.The production team bought a pair from the Marks & Spencer shop close to where the popular BBC show was being filmed. Grant said: “They went to everybody’s favourite high street store, that used to sell on
  
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• UK’s garden centres hope sunshine and Chelsea flower show will help them rebound from the rain

  18-05-2024 01:00
  
  A cold, damp spring depressed plant sales in the UK, but help is at hand from the ‘Glastonbury festival of the gardening world’The sixth-wettest April on record has not been kind to Britain’s gardens or its 1,600 garden centres.So far this year, with most of the key selling season over, garden centre sales are up just 2% on last year and down 11% on 2022, after the sodden spring depressed sales of shrubs, trees, bedding plants and seeds. Continue reading...
  
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