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An ambitious wildlife conservation project to reinstate the UK’s smallest butterfly back onto the western coast of Scotland has been launched by the Ayrshire Sustainability Group. Stretching from Irvine in the north, to Girvan in the south, the project aims to create a semi–continuous corridor of Kidney Vetch along with other native wild flower species in which the Small Blue butterfly and the many other pollinating invertebrates that inhabit Ayrshire can thrive.

Germinal has modified its best–selling sports pitch seed mixture, A20 Premier Ryesport, with the inclusion of three new perennial ryegrasses for 2015. A20 stalwarts, Eugenius and Cadix, are joined by new signings, Promotor, Calico and Eurocordus, to create a seed mixture that now offers an even greater genetic diversity and an improved ability to cope with key stresses such as wear and extremes of temperature.

Gwynn Davies, course manager at The Mere Golf Resort in Knutsford, Cheshire, has won two tickets to this year’s Open Golf Championship courtesy of Germinal.