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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week  - Sep 15, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice on gardening now to plan for spring.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week - Sep 29, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shares his advice on how to prepare your plants for the winter.




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Nigel Colborn says that flowers last longer in Autumn as he lists this week's essential garden jobs

Nigel Colborn has shared his advice on gardening this week. He said homeowners can plant 'anything hardy' and should keep dead-heading dahlias so that they stay in flower until the first frost.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week  - Oct 13, 2019

Nigel Colborn shared advice for keeping perennials young and healthy. The British gardening expert recommends digging up mature plants and gently shaking soil from the roots.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week  - Oct 20, 2019

Nigel Colborn shared advice for re-planting rhubarb to boost production. The British gardening expert recommends re-planting baby rhubarb slips in a new piece of ground.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week - Nov 10, 2019

Nigel Colborn shared advice for taking root cuttings to produce new plants. The British gardening expert recommends removing thicker roots and re-planting.




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The point of poinsettia: Nigel Colborn says they look jolly in winter

Nigel Colborn has shared his advice on gardening this week.




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From giant cacti to tiny beauties, drought-loving succulents steal the show, says Monty Don

Monty Don shares his advice for thriving succulents. The British gardening expert recommends using a very gritty compost mix and ensuring that plants have dried out before watering.




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A tangerine dream: Cheery clivias are the ideal indoor plants to brighten up winter days 

Nigel Colborn shares advice for thriving clivias as house or conservatory plants. British gardening expert says they are plants that last a lifetime and can be moved outside, between May and October.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week 

Nigel Colborn shares his advice for thriving wisteria this summer. The British gardening expert recommends shortening stumps this month to prevent emerging leaves from hiding flowers.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for growing Moth Orchid's, including purchasing better quality soil than what is already in the plant pot.




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California dreaming: On a dreary grey winter's day, why not plan for some summer colour? 

Nigel Colborn shares his advice for a colourful garden this summer. British gardening expert suggests making use of heated greenhouses.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week 

Nigel Colborn shares his advice for using lilies as enchanting patio pot plants. The British gardening expert recommends keeping the plaint in moist compost with access to sunlight.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for planting sweet peas, pruning shrubs and trimming violas this week.




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It's no surprise Borde Hill is: A mecca for lovers magnolia 

Constance Craig Smith revealed a selection of the best UK gardens for magnolias. Borde Hill in West Sussex, which boasts more than 180 magnolias is set to open again this weekend.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for the garden this week 

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn, shares his advice for increasing the number of snowdrop clumps in your garden.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

Nigel Coleborn shares his advice for sowing courgette seeds and pruning your clematis. The gardening expert also named the plant of the week as the Dutch Flower Record.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for removing last summer's shoots to ground level. He also answered a question on a young Japanese cherry tree.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

Nigel Colborn shared his advice for nurturing ponds as the days become warmer. The British gardening expert advises removing dead or damaged stems and looking out for weeds.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for managing this year's near-hardy perennials. He advises pruning away last year's growth.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for people growing their own food in their gardens during the coronavirus lockdown.




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Ten brilliantly simple ideas to get the children off their iPads

British gardening expert Tamsin Westhorpe, who is the author of Diary Of A Modern Country Gardener, shared advice for entertaining and educating children during lockdown.




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The beauty of biennials: They're tough, provide glorious spring colour in abundance

Monty Don shares his advice for growing biennials in an extract from his classic book Gardening At Longmeadow. British gardening expert says now is the time to sow Lunaria annua.




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Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

Now is the time to deal with winter jasmine. Though spectacularly beautiful with cheerful yellow flowers from November to March, this shrub is ferociously invasive.




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Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week 

Camellias are giving a wonderful show this year, but it will soon be over. After flowering has finished, give each shrub a vigorous shake to dislodge any dead blooms.




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Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

This is a good weekend to sow pumpkin, gourd, courgette or marrow seeds directly outdoors. And it’s by no means too late to sow turnips, beetroot, runner beans, spinach or chard.




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Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

This is a good time to refresh compost if you grow camellias or azaleas in containers. Ericaceous compost loses acidity — especially when hard water is used.




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Gas explosion rips through Russian laboratory containing smallpox, Ebola and HIV viruses 

The explosion, at the Vector laboratory in Siberia, left a worker with second and third degree burns. The lab is one of two places in the world which houses the smallpox disease.




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California woman tells of husband diagnosed with coronavirus just a day after they were evacuated

Jeri Seratti-Goldman, of Santa Clarita, California, says her husband, Carl Goldman, was diagnosed with coronavirus after they were evacuated from the quarantined cruise ship in Japan.




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Brian Tamaki says coronavirus outbreak is the work of SATAN and sign world strayed from God

Destiny Church Leader Brian Tamaki, who previously attacked Islam after the Christchurch shooting, made the comments during a congregation in Auckland, New Zealand, on Sunday.




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Coronavirus: 10 countries commit to WHO's SOLIDARITY trial

The WHO announced its new 'SOLIDARITY trial' to compare the effects of different drugs on coronavirus. Eight countries have committed to the trial so far, but the US is not one of them.




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European coronavirus mega-trial will test four experimental drugs

The trial, called Discovery, includes 3,200 patients who have been hospitalised from the killer virus in the UK, Spain, Germany, France, Sweden and Luxembourg.




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Joe Biden turns podcaster from his social-isolation basement

Former Vice President Joe Biden debuted his new podcast from his Delaware home, interviewing former White House aide Ron Klain, who has bashed the Trump administration's coronavirus response.




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Coronavirus: Antiviral drug remdesivir performs well in trials

Gilead Sciences announced Wednesday that more than half of the 397 severely ill coronavirus patients it treated with the antiviral Ebola drug Remdesivir were discharged from hospitals.




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Oscar Pistorius is innocent, says journalist Mark Williams-Thomas

Mark Williams-Thomas said he believes the athlete's account that he shot Reeva Steenkamp dead at his Pretoria home after mistaking her for a burglar.




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Oscar Pistorius exposed as a 'serial cheat who had affairs'

Oscar Pistorius has been exposed as a love cheat who had affairs behind Reeva Steenkamp's back. He was also dating student Sam Taylor, Jenna Edkins, Erin Stear and ex-girlfriend Vicky Miles.




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Pistorius admits being 'haunted' by 'dark side' in e-mail never shown during murder trial

Oscar Pistorius admitted he was ‘haunted’ by his ‘dark side’ in an email. The email is printed in full in a new book written by the mother of one of his former lovers, Sammy Taylor.




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Oscar Pistorius court hears South African officials insist jails are not full of violence

South African prison bosses have hit back at 'inaccurate, serious allegations' in the Oscar Pistorius trial that the country's jails are violent and disease-ridden. 




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Oscar Pistorius trial sees Reeva Steenkamp's cousin talk about shooting

In heart-wrenching testimony that reduced many in the Pretoria courtroom to tears, Kim Martins said the death of Miss Steenkamp (inset) had 'ruined our whole family'.




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Oscar Pistorius if jailed faces being held with Czech inmate on trial for torture

A cell has been set aside for Pistorius in a wing of just six cells at Pretoria Central prison, which is guarded by a special task force and where Radovan Krejcir, pictured, is being held




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Oscar Pistorius could be held in same Pretoria prison as Radovan Krejcir... the Czech inmate on trial for torture

Oscar Pistorius faces being jailed in the same high security prison as a notorious Czech prisoner on trial for torture. The athlete is due to discover his fate on Tuesday when he is sentenced.




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Oscar Pistorius could be back on the track soon but pay-days are over for Paralympian 

Oscar Pistorius has been handed the dubious chance to resurrect his athletics career after being sentenced to what could be as little as 10 months’ imprisonment for shooting his girlfriend dead.




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Oscar Pistorius was messaging me during his trial, claims Katie Price

Oscar Pistorius was reportedly messaging glamour model Katie Price during his trial for the culpable homicide of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.




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Oscar Pistorius is being treated 'like royalty' in Pretoria prison, says guard 

The disgraced former Paralympian (right) is said to be well-looked after in prison because guards are terrified of the public and legal backlash should he come to any harm while serving his sentence.




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Inside the Pretoria jail cell Oscar Pistorius could return to if he is convicted of murder

With its drab, yellow walls, metal bed, this cramped two metre squared cell at Kgosi Mampuru II jail in Pretoria is where Oscar Pistorius spent 23 hours a day for killing model Reeva Steenkamp




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Austrian woman claims Oscar Pistorius flirted with her during Reeva Steenkamp trial

Pistorius allegedly called himself Liam in the thousands of messages he is said to have exchanged with leggy blonde, Nina F, 30, before she learned his true identity while waiting trial in South Africa.




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Oscar Pistorius secretly FREED from jail to attend memorial service for his grandmother

The Olympian was given 'compassionate leave' to attend the memorial service because he is considered 'low risk' by bosses at South Africa's Kgosi Mampuru jail.




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Oscar Pistorius's 'special treatment' behind bars

Oscar Pistorius spent a year on the hospital wing of the overcrowded Kgosi Mampuru II jail before moving to Atteridgeville Correctional Facility two years ago.




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Leonardo DiCaprio's ex Toni Garrn holds hands with beau Enrique Murciano during sushi date in WeHo

At 45, the Miami-born SAG Award nominee is 16 years older than the German-born Lions Model




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Australia's top doctor Brendan Murphy is slammed for making Ruby Princess coronavirus joke

Chief medical officer Brendan Murphy joked 'you're very lucky Ruby Princess unloaded in Sydney rather than in New Zealand' and nervously laughed during a briefing to Kiwi politicians.