Bad Weed News Today

Reggae trailblazer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry has died at the age of 85. The producer and performer is reported to have passed away in hospital in Jamaica.

I ASKED two Edinburgh council workers to stop spraying weedkiller on my kerb a few years back, explaining that I’d rather have weeds than see poison spread around my neighbourhood. As someone who has been concerned for decades about the toxic legacy of such pesticide products on human health and the environment, I had been following the case of father-of-three Dewayne Johnson, who sued the agrochemical corporation Monsanto for wrecking his health. He had been required to spray its weedk...