Dobbies is reportedly looking to boost its online sales by offering UK-wide delivery supported by Ocado's technology, software and logistics as well as using the grocer's general merchandise warehouse. 

Kingfisher retailer Screwfix has issued an urgent recall on two of its heating products due to an issue involving heat build-up in the plug. 

The Glee show has updated its branding and website once again as it begins to gear up for its September outing at the NEC. 

Hereford-based Wyevale Nurseries is celebrating this month after its March sales were up by 14% compared to the same month the year before. 

Travis Perkins’ Q1 results report a LFL sales growth of 2.9% for its consumer division, which includes Wickes, despite a slowdown in growth due to later Easter. 

There is still time to book your place at the annual British Independent Retailers Association (BIRA) conference and awards, due to take place on May 8. 

Despite declines in kitchen and bathroom, Australian retail giant Wesfarmers posted positive sales for its operations in the UK and Ireland, which includes the Homebase chain and its first UK Bunnings store. 

Shoppers across the UK are set to splash out on home and garden essentials with the two bank holiday weekends coming up, according to new data from eBay Advertising. The week following each bank holiday will see consumers turn their attention to freshening up their homes ready for summer. 

Bunnings has confirmed that the location of its fifth UK warehouse will occupy an outlet formerly owned by its biggest rival, B&Q. 

London households are leading the way in applying for home improvements, according to industry analysts Barbour ABI and the Federation of Master Builders. 

Carpetright has announced that sales for the 12 weeks ending April 22, 2017, were up 1.4% like-for-like despite “tougher market conditions experienced across the period.” 

The owners of Thorpes Home Hardware, Gosforth High Street's longest running shop have made the difficult decision to put their business on the market. 

Sales were down 1.4% for the three months to March, marking the first quarterly decline since 2013 according to the Office for National Statistics. 

Wyevale Nurseries has recorded a 44% year-on-year increase in sales of ferns in March thanks to botanical interiors and fashion trend. 

The owners of Watlington hardware store DG Homeware, which was left completely gutted after a vicious fire on Friday, April 7, have thanked the firefighters and members of the community who helped them. 

The new CEO of Debenhams Sergio Bucher, who joined the business last October, has revealed plans to transform the retailer into a “destination for social shopping”, improve online services and potentially close up to 10 of its 176 UK stores. 

B&Q has signed a new three year lease for its store at the Maybird shopping centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, quelling fears for the store's short-term future after plans to demolish the building were approved back in September. 

Visitors at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show are invited to play their part in Chelsea history by leaving a lasting memory in the Hillier show garden. 

Last week saw the opening of the 50th Argos Digital store in a Sainsbury's – and the supermarket has taken the milestone as an opportunity to share some of its plans for the businesses it acquired in its multi-million pound takeover of Home Retail Group last year. 

The chief executive officer of Kingfisher retailer B&Q Michael Loeve will be stepping down from his role after two years.