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Article: Green Shoots and Leaves
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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Monitoring rising sap
Van demand: Dealers around Britain are saying that there is a
surge in demand for used vans, according to the industry website
honestjohn.co.uk. And who could possibly doubt a source like that?
Flowers: Tte--ttes blooming (Manchester, Lancashire); grape
hyacinths (Essex); catkins out (Yorkshire); leaf buds on clematis
and roses (Hereford); buds on wisteria (Bucks); azalea almost in
flower (Staffs); peonies and delphiniums breaking ground (Hants);
snowdrops (everywhere); winter aconites (Cumbira) wood violets
(Lincolnshire); celandines, redcurrant and wild garlic (Cornwall).
Poundland sales: Business at Poundland, the ber-bargain store
group, is up 24.3 per cent on a ...