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PCA warns of Giant Hogweed danger
National trade body, the Property Care Association (PCA), is urging caution as the invasive weed Giant Hogweed takes hold this summer.
The plant's sap is extremely toxic to the skin in sunlight, making it a danger to public health. The rash and the itching can reoccur and flare up for years afterwards when skin is exposed to sunlight.
The PCA has produced a leaflet offering guidance on how to manage Giant Hogweed. It has also compiled a list of specialist contractors and consultants in the Weed Control Group that have expertise to control the plant on the PCA website.
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Report urges London mayor to protect green spaces
The London Assembly Environment Committee has written a report urging the capital's mayor to take measures to protect and maintain the capital's green spaces.
In the report, ‘Park life: ensuring green spaces remain a hit with Londoners’, recommendations are made to focus and invest in areas which are most in need.
The report suggests that funding into green space in the city has fallen due to the cuts within local authorities.
The Committee also called on the Mayor to use the GLA’s Team London to support green space managers to increase and diversify London’s green space volunteering community - particularly to involve more young people.
8 I PC AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2017
The British Agricultural and Garden Machinery Association (BAGMA) celebrated its 100th anniversary in mid-August
Established in 1917 as the National Association of Implement Dealers, the name changed in 1928 to the Agricultural Machinery Dealers Association and changed again in 1944 to the Agricultural Machinery and Tractor Dealers Association. The association became the British Agricultural and Garden Machinery Association in 1972 after an extensive review of its relationship with members.
During its 100 years, the Association has had 52 presidents, most of whom have served a two- year term and have a come from many of the well-known family- owned dealerships from the landbased industry.
Keith Christian, director of BAGMA, commented: “For 100 years, the association has represented the interests of machinery dealers in the UK across a broad spectrum of activities including legislative issues, supplier contracts, legal, health and safety, education and training. BAGMA continues to do this with the added benefit to members of the support of its parent group, bira (British Independent Retailers Association).”
Two of the driving forces behind the creation of an association of implement dealers were AJ Fletcher of Drake & Fletcher, Maidstone, who, as a member of the Kent Implement Dealers Association, “saw the necessity of a national association”, and Sir Ashton Lister of Dursley, who “circularised over a thousand implement agents to ascertain their views as to the establishment of an association”.
The aim was to create “a powerful organisation of implement dealers, which shall vigorously safeguard and promote the interests of the trade and be in every way worthy
Keith Christian
of the increasingly important industry it represents.”
Dealers were encouraged to attend a meeting at the Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras, London, on the afternoon of August 16, 1917. The Implement & Machinery Review reported: “A very gratifying number of agents from all parts of the kingdom, supported by a good sprinkling of manufacturers, were present and it was evident that they came firmly resolved to form an association.”
The new association formed that day was described by the Review as “a defensive body - an Association, moreover, that can render the Government very substantial help in many of their schemes for increasing the food production of the United Kingdom”.
The first committee comprised BASIS Points for magazine subscribers
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twenty ‘gentlemen’ representing different parts of the country. C Hussey of Hammond & Hussey of Croydon was the first chairman and AJ Fletcher was elected as secretary.
Of the twenty companies represented on that first committee, six are still members of BAGMA. These are TH White of Devizes, Alexander & Duncan of Leominster, AT Oliver of Luton, G Thurlow & Sons of Stowmarket, F Randell Ltd of North Walsham, and Peacock & Binnington Ltd of Brigg.
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