Can gardening help reform habitual drug abusers? Celebrity gardener Monty Don has taken a group of ex-offenders under his wing, and two years into this pioneering project, is starting to see rewards.
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The effort so far has been "hard, grim and battling" says Don. Their low came when one of the group, Martin, died.

"When somebody you know, 23, is found dead with a needle in their groin in the lavatory, that is a horrible disaster, a tragedy so it's shocking."
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High points came with an open day where families, friends and even police and magistrates, were invited on site "to eat our sausages from the pigs we raised and salads we had grown".