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In pictures: Farmers march against inheritance tax in London
After it was announced that Agricultural Property Relief is going to be scrapped, farmers, landowners and others took to the ...
Country Life7h
Where have all the salmon gone, and what can we do about it?
The wild Atlantic salmon, kingpin and ‘natural royalty’ of the river, is officially an endangered species in Britain. Stocks ...
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Britain lost 25 million of its ‘graceful giants’, the elm tree — but there’s finally real hope that they are coming back
Once the hallmark of a rural idyll, our English elms were almost eradicated by the devastating fungal infection of Dutch Elm ...
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The five most beautiful Advent Calendars of Christmas
Choo choo! Coppenrath is a German manufacturer of beautiful traditional Advent calendars. This one takes the child on a ...
Country Life1d
Queen Camilla says ‘sad farewell’ to her beloved Jack Russell, Beth
Her Majesty Queen Camilla's much-loved Jack Russell terrier Beth has died.
Country Life1d
Buy a guitar from Jeff Beck, unpicking the Massacre of Glencoe and why you might go to prison for trimming a hedge
Highlights of the sale include his iconic 1954 ‘Oxblood’ Gibson les Paul, his ‘Yardburst’ Les paul from 1958, the ‘Tele-Gib’ ...
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Lost and then found: A missing painting by Lord Leighton returns to London
Frederic, Lord Leighton’s artworks have a tendency to disappear. Flaming June is perhaps the most famous of those that pulled ...
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‘That first taste, six months later, was a quiet revelation’: Mark Diacono on how he was inspired to grow his own vegetables
Our grow-your-own expert Mark Diacono looks back on the early days of his growing, and how things he'd never heard of such as ...
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John Lewis-Stempel: Into the deep of England’s lakes
Beneath the crystal-clear, alien world of water lie the great piscean survivors of the Ice Age. The Lake District is a fish-spotter’s paradise.
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Skate at Somerset House is the friendliest thing you’ll ever do in London
You can always rely on the kindness of strangers: Skate at Somerset House.
Country Life3d
Dummy eyes, faking death and and the whiff of rotting flesh: The great deceptions of Nature’s most cunning creatures
A whiff of rotting flesh, the flash of a painted eye, a dead-faint to the floor: Nature is full of cunning survival tricks, ...
Country Life2d
Knowsley Hall: How Liverpool’s grandest country house — and one of the largest homes in England — was brought back to life
Knowsley Hall in Lancashire
was returned from institutional use in the 1990s to become the seat of the Earl and Countess of Derby. John Martin Robinson reports on progress to one of the most ambitious ...