My first ID thread! Help with this bush?

[Cathpot]

Hi- friend is trying to clear a flower bed and cut down a large bush but says the roots are really extensive and the bush keeps regenerating. Can you help me tell her what it is and how to get rid of it?

[sentia]

Does it have small white smelly flowers? Could be privet.

[Clankboing]

Lonicera nitilda. Xx

[Cathpot]

Thanks - she says no flowers or thorns, I will pass lonicera on as a suggestion

[Ferguson]

Yes - Lonicera. It can make a nice little hedge, as cuttings root very easily. Could make a nice decorative 'parterre'.