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Receptionist at Humphries Kirk solicitors and arbitrators in Dorchester, Dorset Gemma Wall decorating their Christmas tree they rent each year.

En-tree-preneur Peter Inch has found an innovative way to stop Christmas trees being discarded after the festive season - by renting and replanting them.

The businessman has grown around 3,000 pine trees on his farm that he charges people to use in their homes during the holiday period.

Peter delivers the trees to customers' doors at the end of November and then collects them in the first week of January.

Once he has picked up the trees they are placed back in the ground in tubs and linked up to a watering system that revives them after being inside for so long.