In This Issue
Revealed: The magic of Christmas and award-winning garden centre teams
Ex-sales director Nigel Thompson helps Stewart Group to deliver on future plans
The Greatest Christmas Awards judges raise nearly £4,000 by donating their time to Make-A-Wish
Sales boost as gardeners get set to grow
GCA and suppliers join battle again...for charity
Fairy Gardening...has it got wings?
Supa range offers garden centres a point of difference
Sinclair nominate Decco as national distributor
CRoP Clinics to help HTA members save money
Stewart Garden Schools campaign in full swing as garden goodies get despatched
Stax investment continues as they launch biggest-ever garden catalogue
Kelkay Twit Twoo to fly off the shelves for Mother’s Day
Free Sweet Pea Tiller Girls seeds for schools
For the Rising Stars, it's the final countdown
The Top 100 most-read stories of 2014
Gardening celebs get ready for 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz
Key Accounts Manager - Thetford, Norfolk
Garden Centre Manager - East Midlands
Assistant Garden Centre Manager - Washington, West Sussex
Assistant General Manager - West Sussex
Plant Area Department Head - Woking
Plant Area Assistant - Essex
Plant Area Department Head - Stanmore
Bedding Supervisor - West Horsley
Plant Area Supervisor - London
Plant Area Assistant – Hersham
Nick Clegg speaks up for grannies who use garden centre websites
Sales of clothing boost revenues at garden centres in December
Trio pots are fun for cacti say Elho
Scotts offer ChapelWood deals for National Nest Box Week
Onion sets and seed potatoes are Veg-2-Gro bestsellers
Town & Country secateurs top in Which? trial
Multi-purpose compost is back in high demand
Draper to go digital on Totally Tools stand
Wildlife World expands range with environmentally friendly bird baths
New launch: the 'greenest' gloves yet?
Meet the Buyer sessions help fuel export success
London's own garden show to return in June
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Nick Clegg speaks up for grannies who use garden centre websites

If Nick Clegg gets his way, grannies who use garden centre websites will escape the attention of internet security checks.

A reference to garden centres crept in during Clegg’s clash with the Prime Minister over the so-called ‘Snoopers’ Charter’ – revisions to  Britain’s privacy laws – following last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris.

David Cameron and the head of M15, Andrew Parker, believe the intelligence services need new powers to read our communications if “mass casualty attacks” like those on Charlie Hebdo’s offices are to be avoided in this country.

The Communications Data Bill, which would allow the contents of any of our messages, phonecalls and other communications to be read without a warrant, will go in the Conservative manifesto for May’s general election.

The Lib Dems' are opposed to the Bill, which they see as a threat to our civil liberties.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme this week, Clegg said that he supported plans to “strengthen our defences to make ourselves physically safe” but a law closing in on our privacy was a “slippery slope . . . if we start to censor or self-censor ourselves as a society.”

He questioned the efficiency and necessity of monitoring everyone's messages. “Scooping up vast amounts of information on everyone, children, grandmas who go on garden centre websites…Every single individual in this country, people who would never dream of doing us harm.”
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