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London Life
Your indispensable guide to the capital
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May 06, 2026
Country Life UK
Business or pleasure?
As the Festival of Britain turns 75, Kathryn Ferry looks back on the pleasure gardens at Battersea in London that may have been the last of their kind
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May 06, 2026
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China girl
A summer spell in Jingdezhen, once the world's porcelain capital, led Felicity Aylieff to put her twist on Chinese techniques and make ceramics on a monumental scale
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May 06, 2026
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Blood relations
This was the ritual fate every Highland bridegroom hopes he might somehow elude'
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May 06, 2026
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Drawn to the natural world
She may have dwelt in Beatrix Potter's shadow, but Alison Uttley's magical, arcadian world is a prevailing pleasure to explore
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May 06, 2026
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Record UK wildfires spur launch of commission
A RECORD number of wildfires was reported in Britain last year, the devastation in part fuelled by the Carrbridge and Dava Moor wildfire at Strathspey—the worst in Scotland's history—which saw 11,827ha (29,225 acres) of moorland and woodland devastated.
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May 06, 2026
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My favourite painting Karl Openshaw
KEN-KUROJIRO is the professional name of Chinese artist Ren Qian.
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May 06, 2026
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From cattle byre to elegant bower
The garden of Hodges Barn, Gloucestershire The home of Nick and Amanda Hornby
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May 06, 2026
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Right up your alley
The game of boules was unfairly maligned by Henry VIII for inducing the deplorable state of English archery, but, in its modern incarnation, it continues to thrive in Britain,
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May 06, 2026
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Dark magic
Gentleman's Relish, savoury staple of the Victorian pantry and top-notch teatime treat, looks set to be discontinued. Tom Parker Bowles salutes it-and suggests an alternative
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May 06, 2026
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Illicit drug pollution affecting salmon
Under the influence: exposure to traces of cocaine and other narcotics causes Atlantic salmon to swim almost twice as far as normal
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May 06, 2026
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An island pioneer
WHEN it comes to Spanish artists, César Manrique isn’t much of a household name, unless you happen to live in Lanzarote or have holidayed there.
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May 06, 2026
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Breaking the code
Although there is more to some paintings than meets the eye, the quest for pictorial symbols can often be fruitless. Sometimes, a rabbit is only a rabbit,
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May 06, 2026
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Creating a buzz
As challenging and prestigious as achieving a master of wine certificate, the quest to become a honey sommelier requires an elite sensory education
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May 06, 2026
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Sun loungers
MORE than any other herb, basil (Ocimum basilicum) has the scent and flavour of summer.
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May 06, 2026
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The legacy Dame Jilly Cooper and the romantic nove
DURING life you can never truly be sure what your legacy will be,' mused Times columnist Caitlin Moran, who changed her name to that of one of Jilly Cooper's heroines, at the writer's memorial service earlier this year. 'In the event, Jilly's memorial is so Jilly-ish, it immediately became clear: there is such a thing as \"Cooperdom\".'
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May 06, 2026
Country Life UK
'We must farm with Nature, not against it'
They might struggle with stony, dry Cotswolds-brash soil, but, as the region's forward-thinking farmers explain to Mary Skipwith, working the land sustainably and regeneratively is the best way to balance food production with wildlife recovery
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May 06, 2026
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'A black rainbow'
In the first of our new series on 'unloved birds', we take a beady-eyed look at the charred black carrion crow, the clever corvid with the coarse voice
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May 06, 2026
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'Splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower'
Teeming with life and bursting with mushrooms, lichen and wildflowers, our grasslands are a vital and ancient part of our natural heritage, says
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May 06, 2026
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A galaxy of details in stone
The Deans of Gloucester have consecutively occupied two houses in the cathedral close. Both have a fascinating history,
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May 06, 2026
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A national treasure
ONE of the most delightful programmes on recent television has been Sam & Ade Go Birding (Channel 5), in which Samuel West, who plays the prickly Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small, takes a friend, fellow actor Ade Edmondson, bird-watching.
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May 06, 2026
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Heritage under the hammer
LOCAL authorities seeking to shrink their multi-million pound deficits are, in a few cases, selling off historic assets.
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May 06, 2026
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A support for hearing
THE 9TH DUKE OF WELLINGTON holds a walking stick ingeniously adapted as a hearing aid. He is standing in the Waterloo Gallery at Apsley House.
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May 06, 2026
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They broke the mould
As the world's top event riders attempt to gallop into the history books at MARS Badminton Horse Trials this weekend, Kate Green recalls the outstanding record-breakers of the past
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May 06, 2026
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Making up lost ground
The gardens of Wootton Hall, Staffordshire The home of Johnny and Laura Greenall This woodland garden is one of the most ambitious and successful made this century
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April 29, 2026
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All hail the 'glory of Britain'
Offa: King of the Mercians Rory Naismith (Yale, £30)
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April 29, 2026
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Burnt butter, miso and watercress columns of Pompeii
Kitchen garden cook Watercress
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April 29, 2026
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Childhood lost and found
When he stumbles across a box of Nature books in the attic on a bright April morning, John Lewis-Stempel is transported from a donkey-identification hunt to a land of long ago and far away
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April 29, 2026
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Wild arts run free
A new, sustainable, small opera company is sweeping through our country-house gardens. Ysenda Maxtone-Graham reports
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April 29, 2026
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Le Sirenuse Mare, Italy
It was here, in Positano, that Hercules lost his heart to a nymph called Amalfi and where the very concept of la dolce vita was born.
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