Thatching straw grower Robin Kurzaj, from Billinghay, says the industry is at risk of dying out.

Britain’s traditional thatched roofs risk extinction because of the rise of imported materials, master thatchers fear.

Two poor weather years and a move away from traditional long-stemmed winter wheat have been blamed for a shortage of thatching straw. The National Thatching Straw Growers Association (NTSGA) says ...

In England and Denmark, there are still entire villages of thatched houses. While it is expensive to thatch a roof in those countries, it is not prohibitively so, and the tradition of thatching is ...