Anyone mistaken enough to grow ornamental grasses should be starting to think about how to tidy them up now we’ve come to the end of their winter “display” of gloomy brown heaps topped with bits of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sir Paul McCartney is a proficient sheep-shearer and picked up the skill while living at High Park Farm in Kintyre, Scotland, with ...

Meet Chris. He's a sheep who had the fortune (or bad luck, depending on how you look at it) to elude shearers in Australia for about five years before he was finally captured earlier this week. Good ...

I've never thought much about sheep. My sense of baby sheep being really cute has always warred with my love of lamb chops. And I find sheep eyes, with those weird horizontal pupils, really ...

KERRY'S top sheep shearers are going for gold in this year's Sheep and Wool Festival in Kilkenny, a two day international event which incorporates the All Ireland and International Sheep Shearing and ...

Jakoti Hand Shears, £14.95 plus £2.50 p&p From Jakoti by mail order (01458 850066; www.handshears.co.uk) What you get: A pair of steel scissor-action hand shears with red handles, wire locking loop ...