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• New Year Plant Hunt reveals influence of rising temperatures on British and Irish flora

  species. This is yet further evidence that climate change is affecting our wildlife indiscriminately. This is a visible signal that everyone can see in their own gardens and communities.” Dr Debbie Hemming, a leading climate scientist researching the effects of climate change on the natural world, added

• Wet and warm June comes to a close

  on record for the UK as a whole in a series from 1910. Many parts of southern and eastern Scotland have received over twice the normal June rainfall.   A number of Scottish counties have had their wettest June on record. Stations at both Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and RAF Leuchars, among others, have had

• Royal Wedding sunshine

  in the Widsor area. Around the rest of the UK, if you are attending a street party or garden party or attending a sporting events on Saturday you can expect plenty of warm sunny spells in most places, although there is the chance of some low cloud affecting coasts of southeast England and East Anglia

• Turning colder and unsettled

  mid-week, and bringing with it the unsettled weather that we’ll see for much of the week. Some clear spells are still around later in the week, with the best of any sunshine likely to be in the south later in the week.”  The drop in temperatures is a risk for some of the nation’s gardeners

• Met Office Weather Deep Dive: A change is on the way

  a welcome change for gardeners and farmers who have been hoping for rain. So what does the immediate weather picture look like? Showers are expected across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, with some potentially heavy and thundery. As we move into midweek, a band of rain is set to sweep

• Met Office weather for London: Mostly fine with scattered rain

  , but there is the potential for a touch of frost first thing on Friday morning. Not great news for gardeners, especially with all the dry weather, albeit there is some rain to come through the next week or so." Keep up to date with weather warnings, and you can find the latest forecast on our website

• Met Office daily weather: Cooler with patchy rain

  on Friday morning. Not great news for gardeners, especially with all the dry weather, albeit there is some rain to come through the next week or so." Keep up to date with weather warnings, and you can find the latest forecast on our website, on YouTube, by following us on X and Facebook, as well as on our mobile app which is available for iPhone from the App store and for Android from the Google Play store.

• New official highest temperature in UK confirmed

  A recording of 38.7°C at Cambridge Botanic Garden on Thursday 25 July has become the highest temperature officially recorded in the UK.

  high temperatures gripped large parts of central and western Europe last week, the UK joins Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in breaking national temperature records.   The recording was taken at the University of Cambridge Botanic Garden - which houses a Met Office climate observation site

• session-3---climate-change-and-impacts.pdf

  . For example, tomatoes, it’s much better to buy organic Spanish ones, than ones that have been grown in the UK. To get tomatoes all year round in the UK you have to heat the greenhouses/polytunnels with CO2, and this causes a much bigger carbon footprint than shipping in overland from Spain. 6

• sustainability-infographic.pdf

  reduced waste through initiatives such as promoting the use of reusable cups. Our plastics, metal, cardboard, paper and glass are all recycled. Our food waste is processed by anaerobic digestion and our garden waste from the grounds is composted. Our residual waste is sent to an incineration facility