It's bound to cause a buzz of excitement – staff at a Portsmouth business have come up with the sweet idea of becoming beekeepers. The Southern Co-operative, which recently moved to Lakeside, North Harbour, has set up four hives on its premises. The firm, which has shops around the area, set up the hives to support Plan Bee, a national campaign highlighting the decline of the honey bee population in the UK. The company’s sister society The Co-operative Group launched the awareness ...

UNDER-AGE drinking is widely perceived as the most serious type of problem drinking. Such drinking can cause serious problems - children may progress less well in school or find it difficult to establish and sustain friendships. But apart from the damage that children are doing to themselves, there is the damage to communities as a result of anti-social behaviour caused by under-age drinking. In an area of my constituency, residents were suffering night after night from gangs of young people ...