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While he has not produced a successful and critically acclaimed new musical in many years, the better-known works in his catalog have been spruced up by innovative directors.

Uplands’s autumnal and only slightly less prestigious sibling Rush Creek Reserve is a decadent, soft cheese wrapped in spruce bark that drops only in October and November.

He’s pleased to see the estate being spruced up.

The hope is, reduced taxes will mitigate some of the impact of the US's bruising 50% tariffs on India, leave people with more money to spend and spruce up the domestic economy.

The bark beetle has been the scourge of Europe, killing millions of spruce trees, yet the government thought it could halt its spread to the UK by checking imported wood products at ports.