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The Princess Royal’s favourite painting Her Royal Highness chooses a stirring seascape that recalls happy family memories of days on the high seas. To the lighthouse The Hebridean Isle of Islay is home to a remarkable garden around Rubh’A’Mhail Lighthouse, where Suzanne Cobb has defied wind and hungry wildlife to create a floriferous haven. Tiffany Daneff explores..
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Who killed cock robin?
Referred to by Chaucer as ‘Robert redbreast’ and long a cheerful symbol of Christmas, the sweet-songed robin is so combative it will attack its own reflection, reveals Ian Morton
Remembrance through rose-tinted glass
Hauntingly beautiful, stained-glass scenes keep the memory of our Fallen alive in glorious technicolour. Andrew Green visits country churches to seek them out
Let's talk turkey
They’re easy to rear, they’re friendly and they needn’t only be for Christmas. Kate Green talks to turkey experts, who explain why we should be eating the heritage breeds
Oh sing, choirs of angels
Loosely translated as ‘when the cock crows at dawn’, Plygain carol services have been held in Welsh churches on Christmas Day since the 13th century, as Aeneas Dennison reports
Riches not measured in coin
The Cathedral of St Mary and St Ethelbert, Hereford This year marks the 700th anniversary of the canonization of Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford. John Goodall looks at the story of this building and the way it was shaped by a remarkable figure
Rockin' around the Christmas tree
Bombarded as we are in the preceding weeks, for many, it is the ritual choosing and dressing of the tree that marks the start of Christmas, says Jack Watkins
Born to be wild
Once widespread across the British Isles, there are now fewer than 100 pure Scottish wildcats left. Joe Gibbs considers whether curiosity or interbreeding killed the ‘Highland tiger’
Christmas comes but once a year
And when it does, it (mostly) brings good cheer, although some professions certainly enjoy it more than others
A High Road To Clean Energy
THE path to ending fossil-fuel emissions by 2050 is ‘ambitious and affordable’, according to a report published last week.
Because You're Mine, I Walk The Line
Crunching across winter stubble on a frosty December morning, John Lewis-Stempel gives thanks for the wildlife sustained by the old millet stalks and endeavors to train his labrador to walk to heel, aided by a handful of cheese
