Guardian: In the greenhouses of North Bank Growers in Billingham, county Durham, tomatoes grow fat with the help of infusions of CO2 from the GrowHow fertilizer plant a couple of miles down the road.
GrowHow also provides heat to keep Englands most northerly greenhouses at a tomato-ripening temperature, through a separate pipeline that dates from the days when Imperial Chemicals Industries ruled the roost in Teesside. Teesside is still home to 58% the UK chemicals industry, though ICI was dismantled in...