An oak planted for every year of Conoco.

THERE will be a double celebration this weekend when energy company Conoco, based in Warw-ick, plants trees to mark its 125th anniversary.

Conoco, which sells petrol under the Jet brand name, is giving almost pounds 3,000 to create a new woodland area at Kingsbury Water Park, in north Warwickshire. The event also marks the park's 25th anniversary.

The fuel company's employees and their families will be turning out on Sunday to help park staff plant more than 600 trees and shrubs, including 125 oaks - one for each year of the company's history.

Rick Hamm, chairman of Conoco, said: "Conoco has been supplying fuel from Kingsbury oil storage terminal for over 30 years and we have been a major employer at our Warwick marketing headquarters for almost a decade.

"We are proud of our commitment to the communities in which we operate and we are pleased to join forces with Kingsbury Water Park for this splendid environmental initiative."

Country parks land manager Keith Higginson added: "We are absolutely delighted that a local company has given us the opportunity to get this tree-planting scheme under way.

"It's appropriate that Conoco is also celebrating an anniversary this year and that we can help them fulfil their wish to contribute something to the local community with such an environmentally-friendly scheme.

"That's what partnership working is all about."