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How can you lessen the climate impact of your clothes? Our writers spend a month selling, tailoring and mending to find out

Nicola Sturgeon made the remarks at the Paisley Book Festival on Friday, just days after announcing she would step down as First Minister.

Letters: Virginia Orrey says the Isle of Wight has everything you need for a summer break, from beautiful beaches to renowned restaurants. Plus a letter from Cathy Swann

More than 80 years later, Henry still remembers how difficult it was to be a child refugee. Here’s what he thinks of the UK’s plan to send asylum seekers – some of whom could be unaccompanied minors – 4,500 miles away, writes Chitra Ramaswamy

Letters: Jane Dodds and Linda Theobald can understand Chitra Ramaswamy’s affection for her dog

Rescuing a staffie is high on the list of the best things I’ve ever done. She is getting older, but to me, she is still best in show, writes Chitra Ramaswamy

It’s been a decade since I got on a plane, but global warming and chaotic airports mean it has been easy to stay on the ground, writes Chitra Ramaswamy

In my childhood memories my mum is hitching up her sari to snip a cutting from a stranger’s garden, or watching Gardeners World. Now crocuses, tulips and daisies are my portal to her, writes Chitra Ramaswamy

A moving account of an unlikely friendship; a flawed yet thrilling tale of a febrile romance; and a long-overdue celebration of landscaping’s forgotten heroes