Do you like the idea of composting, but not the idea of maintaining a heap of rotting comestibles? Do you care about keeping stinky food scraps out of landfills, but not about creating compost?

There's a saying: “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its trousers on.” There are ...

Lucy Taylor of Vine House Farm Bird Foods says such mixes typically fail to attract more “interesting species” and even common birds like Robin and Blackbird will show little interest. More worryingly ...

More worryingly, rotting or dropped bird food could be potentially fatal to others who peck on it and attract unwanted visitors such as rats. “Like so many other things in life, when it comes to ...

The city's residents have complained that mounting rubbish is a risk to public health, with rotting food attracting foxes, cockroaches and rats. Tom Cheshire speaks to Sky's Midlands correspondent ...