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THE LOCAL

www.bournelocal.co.uk Friday, April 11, 2014

LOCAL READER OFFER

Keep the Hive Alive with your FREE bee friendly ower seeds
Be kind to the honeybee and watch the fruits of your labour grow with this fantastic reader oer.
Central England Co-operative store in the Burghley Centre, Bourne, has teamed up with The Local to give away free bee friendly ower seeds to help the plight of the honeybee continuing with its Keep the Hive Alive campaign. The not-so-humble honeybee is responsible for pollinating 80 per cent of the flowering plants on our planet. This tiny, hardworking insect helps to give us apples, broccoli, strawberries, nuts, asparagus and cucumbers, to name but a few. But with the inux of manmade pesticides, coupled with poor weather conditions, our little earthling warriors are at risk, and if they go, then so will much of the food we take for granted. Beekeeper Richard Davies, a committee member with the Peterborough and District Beekeepers Association, is confident that if we all do a little, we can achieve a lot for the honeybee. H e s ays : T h i n g s a re starting to look up for the honeybee but we are by no means in the clear just yet. If spring is particularly wet and nasty it will lead to a late arrival of flowers - and

Cut out the coupon for your free packet of wildower seeds

FREE
Valid until 27/04/14
9 919842 860998

Wildflower seeds

This coupon can only be redeemed at selected Central England Co-operative Foodstores. Valid until 27/04/14. One coupon per customer transaction. Photocopies of this coupon will not be accepted. This coupon has no retail value and the free seeds offer cannot be exchanged or refunded.

Buzzing a honeybee collects pollen from a plum tree.

the honeybee needs owers to stay alive. Saying that, winter has been rather mild and, if we continue on the same course through spring, things will not look as bleak as they did at the beginning of 2013. All we urge is for everyone to do their bit to help these amazing creatures.

Let your grass grow a bit longer - bees go wild for clover. Also, by creating a small patch of wildowers, you will invite honeybees in and keep them nice and fed. Simply take the coupon in todays The Local to the store at The Burghley Centre, Bourne, and exchange

it for your free packet of seeds. You can also buy additional packets for 99p each. And as a thank you for claiming and planting your free seeds, you can save 6 when you spend 40 on your next shop at the store by using the special offer coupon on this page.

6 off
when you spend 40 or more

919841 906000

Terms and Conditions This coupon can be redeemed at any Co-operative Foodstore.

Valid until 27/04/14. This coupon is not transferable or refundable and cannot be exchanged for cash. Only one coupon can be used per transaction. Only original coupons are valid and no photocopies will be accepted. No change given. This offer excludes purchases on paypoint, lottery, cigarettes, tobacco, mobile phone top-up cards, foreign currency, postage stamps, saving stamps, rug doctor machine hire, in-store concessions, rst stage baby milk products and fuel. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other money off spend coupons or promotion.

The co-operative food

www.angliacooperative.co.uk/food

Valid until 27/04/14