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Having a field day
Behind hounds or on the marsh, casting for a salmon or stalking a stag, nothing stirs Adrian Dangar’s heart as fieldsports do.

I’m still standing
In memory of the Sycamore Gap tree, so callously cut down, we salute its fellow arboreal sentinels of Britain.

The Englishness of English architecture
What makes a building English? Steven Brindle considers the answer, from soaring cathedral vaults to austere Palladian villas and rambling country piles..

Farmers see red over green plan

A NEW ‘environmental module’ proposed by the farm-assurance scheme Red Tractor has drawn heavy criticism from farmers after it was announced last week. The scheme, known as the Green Farm Commitment (GFC), will enable ‘farmers to make commitments and track their own progress across five key areas for environmentally focused farming: carbon footprinting; soil management; nutrient management; waste management; and biodiversity’, according to the organisation. Farmers reacted with fury to the proposal, accusing supermarkets of passing the cost of them reaching net zero onto farmers.

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Farmers need better friends

THERE are very few agricultural constituencies in England today— the growth of towns and suburbs has meant that they dominate the truly rural areas. Once, there were seats all over the country where the farming vote really mattered. In Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire, the West Country and the Welsh Borders especially, candidates would have to make an effort to woo the country electorate. The House of Commons would always have members seriously interested in farming and able to speak up with authority, but that has changed radically as constituencies are reordered to reflect population changes.

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Totally foxed

The new Scottish law on hunting is a cunning catch-22 situation, but not one designed to help the fox

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The Englishness of English architecture

A major new survey of architecture in Britain and Ireland from 1530 to 1880 will be published this autumn. Its author, Steven Brindle, teases out the qualities of one of its most elusive central themes

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Having a field day

From following hounds beneath snow-flecked skies to fishing for trout by shimmering water meadows and landing a Macnab, Adrian Dangar has enjoyed a lifetime of adventures as a respected huntsman and sporting correspondent

6 mins

'Stubborn little bearers of total joy'

Norfolk terriers may be small and feisty, but their immense courage, intelligence and sheer joy of life have won over everyone from members of the Royal Family to Formula 1 champions

6 mins

Come hell or high water

A miracle of Nature, the salmon braves body changes, hungry seals and forbidding waterfalls on its extraordinary journey to and from its spawning grounds. But now, warns Simon Lester, it may be facing one challenge too many

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Following in the footsteps of John Macnab

The Editor and The Judge set forth to Speyside in a bid to bag a Macnab-a salmon, a stag and a brace of grouse in one day-from the purple heather-clad hills that rise above the fabled river in the Scottish highlands

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Give fleece a chance

Wool month is the time to consider sleeping in bedding sourced from a local flock

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Georgian grandeur

The enduring appeal of Georgian architecture in all its guises is highlighted by the recent launch onto the market of three important historic houses

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Rooms with a view

Amsterdam's historic canal houses offer vertical living at its very finest

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Beethoven's homage to Nature

Although Beethoven was German by birth, it was the Austrian countryside that influenced many of his greatest works and provided respite from the torment caused by his deafness. Russell Higham visits the Viennese woodlands that inspired his music

5 mins

Plant theatre

Charles Quest-Ritson joins the legion of garden enthusiasts who make the pilgrimage to the dramatic plant nurseries at Larch Cottage in Cumbria

6 mins

Pot shots

I HAVEN’T nosed around behind other people’s garden sheds, but I suspect that, if I did, I would find, as I do behind mine, a jumble of precariously stacked old plastic pots. I try to create some kind of order by stacking similar sizes together, but such is the range of shapes and sizes that disorder soon returns. Most can’t be recycled; nurseries and garden centres don’t want to reuse them for fear of spreading disease and one never needs them in the garden, however enthusiastic one is about propagating plants. I think we’ll be stuck with them until plastic recycling improves.

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