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Minette Batters solves the Inheritance Tax question, how to buy your own rollercoaster, and why the French are furious about chocolate fingers
Plus the Quiz of the day and the best property for sale.
By James Fisher Published
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Country Life 13 November 2024
Country Life 13 November 2024 looks at The King's Royal Warrant holders, visits Apethorpe Palace and takes in Britain's hidden cultural hotspots.
By Country Life Published
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On board the new Britannic Explorer, the luxury sleeper train set to tour the UK, and created by the people who run the Venice Simplon Orient Express
The Britannic Explorer, a train where you'd never complain about being delayed, is set to come in to service in July 2025. Rosie Paterson takes a look.
By Rosie Paterson Published
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Dawn Chorus: The breath of fresh air that costs £8, a bizarre trick for getting rid of slugs and what you need to know about the Beaver Moon
Plus our Quiz of the Day.
By Toby Keel Published
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Dawn Chorus: The mini-Hogwarts for sale in north London, a song for the King and our Quiz of the Day
A house in the spookily Gothic Holly Village, a birthday song for His Majesty and good news for fans of keeping warm on remote Scottish islands.
By Toby Keel Published
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John McCrae: The solider, surgeon and poet whose words inspired the Poppy Appeal
John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance for ever more. Kate Green tells his story.
By Kate Green Published
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Dawn Chorus: Hot news just in from The British Reversible Plough-Off Final, meet Country Life's new kitten and our Quiz of the Day
Plus, a question to answer: would you rather own a Hebridean island or a garage in Clapham?
By Toby Keel Published
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Living in the real-life Cotchester, why would anyone buy a public toilet near Truro and how it took 21 years to designate a footpath
Plus the quiz of the day, saving Britain's most southerly post office, and the quiz of the day — it's the Dawn Chorus
By James Fisher Published
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Dawn Chorus: The seven types of gentleman, the hillsides covered in Cadbury's, and try our Quiz of the Day
Looking for a new party trick? You've come to the right place.
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life 6 November 2024
Country Life 6 November 2024 celebrates Gentleman's Life, tells the tale of the poppy appeal, explores the wetlands of East Anglia and finds Britain's tastiest wild mushroom.
By Country Life Published
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Giant spiders, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on leather, velvet and growing old disgracefully and a home fit for Gunpowder Plotting
Plus, how Glasgow briefly hosted two Interpols and the quiz of the day. It's the Dawn Chorus.
By James Fisher Published
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Dawn Chorus: Sleep divorce, hurkle-durkling, a heartwarming father-and-son Royal image, and our Quiz of the Day
It's our daily Dawn Chorus, dedicated to bringing you all the things you might have missed that might just bring a smile to your face on a wintry November Monday.
By Toby Keel Published
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'Only the richest estates will be asked to pay': Labour's DEFRA Secretary hits back after backlash over inheritance tax plans for farms
Steve Reed, Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, has explained the government's position on inheritance tax and farming.
By Toby Keel Published
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The Dawn Chorus: A White House doppelganger for sale, the dog that saw a ghost and how to be better looking than David Beckham
Our daily round-up goes supernatural.
By Toby Keel Published
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Curious Questions: Why do we carve pumpkins at Halloween?
The devilishly smiling image of Jack O'Lantern is inseparable from Halloween, but what's the story behind it? Martin Fone explains — and discovers that the festival many complain about as an American import has been this side of the Atlantic for centuries.
By Martin Fone Published
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Dawn Chorus: Witches at Gainsborough, raccoon sausages and how fax machines power the railways
Plus, the quiz of the week, Britain's best road and a glorious Cotswold property.
By James Fisher Published
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Country Life 30 October 2024
Country Life 30 October 2024 takes you behind the scenes of Alan Titchmarsh's Hampshire garden, how Britain bought the world's best art and the secret to hunting ghost orchids.
By James Fisher Published