Garden Gnome Crisis Strikes The UK!

Sales of gnomes have halved in the last decade CREDIT: FOTOSTOCK RM

•  Debora Robertson 

31 MARCH 2016 • 5:52PM

In these difficult days, it’s only natural that we snatch at items of good news like kittens at ribbon. One such welcome and uplifting story is that the (artfully patched) bottom has fallen out of the garden gnome market. Sales of gnomes have halved in the last 10 years and there may only be five million left in captivity in Great Britain. Daily Tel.