This is a rolling scrubland, and in fact, the word Puuc comes from the Maya word for hill.

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Volunteers have cleared scrubland around Shepreth station so the poppies will bloom at next year's anniversary.

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Hundreds more are languishing in three scrubland camps ringing Tripoli airport waiting for flights.

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Its neat canefields are far more attractive to tourists than the eroded scrubland of Antigua, which stopped growing sugar 30 years ago.

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Men and women, young and old, enjoyed music popular in the 1960s and 70s, performed from a temporary stage erected on the grassy scrubland that is District Six today.

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Nor did he speculate how many more bodies might lie in the sandy scrubland behind the beach on the south shore of Long Island, just east of the New York City border.

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In this desert region of flat-topped mountains, russet hills, gravel plains and swathes of scrubland, the black rhino are not tagged or tracked by satellite, nor are their movements restricted by the boundaries of a huge game reserve.

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At the end of a sandy track leading out of town into the surrounding scrubland, in a house made of rough-hewn branches covered in clay, Lucia Vieira looks after her two children while her husband is out earning a mere 5 reais a day as a farm labourer.

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