Northern Ireland tree buyers are cancelling orders for thousands of trees because of a post-Brexit ban on plants being moved from Great Britain.

Ban on plants being moved across Irish Sea is major setback for tree-planting programmes in region.

This report identifies and then looksfurtherat the currentlymost prominent options (as at thestartof February2019) for the UK’s departure from the EU. In particularit considersthe current Withdrawal Agreement reached between the EU and the UK,together with the associated Political Declaration;and some of the alternatives, notably “no deal”,and choosing to remainin the EU.

Brexit correspondent Lisa O’Carroll distils a few of the post-exit bumps facing individual British firms that she has investigated for the Guardian