Allders, the huge department store that has been trading in Croydon for a century and a half, is to close down 

Kingfisher-owned chain opens new trade counter alongside its trial DIY format DIY Express at Haskins retail complex. 

Industry headliners - from AkzoNobel to Home Hardware - have lent their support to the upcoming DIY Week Awards ahead of the fast-approaching September 21 deadline for entries. 

The landmark Dobbies and Tesco shared store is now a certainty, after councillors in King's Lynn gave permission for the £8m development at a former Campbell's factory site on Hardwick Road. 

The Sun newspaper has launched a campaign to find Britain's Best Garden Centre. 

A vacuum flask has been compulsorily withdrawn from the market because it contains asbestos. 

A growing presence of specialist shops such as arts and crafts stores, bakery and home baking stores and health food outlets reveals that high streets are adapting to take on the supermarkets and shopping centres. 

The garden centre chain has chosen CLIC Sargent, the leading cancer charity for children and young people, as its Christmas charity partner this year - and has pledged to raise £50,000 by Christmas Eve. 

There are no signs that the scourge of vacant shops mouldering on Britain's high streets is about to go away, new figures have revealed. 

A growing focus on supplying outlets such as garden centres helped Stoke-on-Trent pottery maker Churchill China raise half-year profits by 22%. 

A TV advertisement for an iron that showed a woman deliberately spraying steam onto her hand was irresponsible, the ad watchdog has ruled. 

B&Q has announced a two-year agreement with ITV which will see a brand new kitchen feature on the set of the channel's flagship daytime programme, This Morning, from this week onwards. 

A four by four feet glass box, suspended 20 ft over a car park in Aylesbury was where a director from Wickes spent a gruelling 34 hours of his bank holiday weekend last week. 

Autumn Fair International 2012 got under way yesterday, and, as is usual for the show's Sunday, saw an influx of independents. 

Sales of artificial flowers are enjoying a significant uplift on the back of the longest hay fever season experienced in two decades. 

The former gardening home shopping retailer has posted financial results for the 26 weeks ending June 29, 2012, rounding off a half year which saw much of the group's operations sold. 

A lack of skilled workers has helped put one of Scotland's leading independent landscaping businesses into liquidation. 

Almost half of Britons admit to buying DIY tools that hardly ever emerge from the toolbox, a new study has found. 

Gardman has appointed McLoughlins as its distributor in the Republic of Ireland. 

The Insight Retail Group has launched kitchen-compare.com to help enable consumers to better navigate the different kitchen-buying options from the country's largest home improvement retailers.