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Dawn Chorus: Boost for Orkney wildlife, strange plants to eat and curious lodgings at the COP conference
Plus the quiz of the day.
By James Fisher Published
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The Dawn Chorus: No fruit for wintering birds, Grange Park Opera's 'big deal' and the last V12 Ferrari
Plus, why was margarine pink, 11 of the best houses for sale in the magazine last week and a Halloween podcast special.
By James Fisher Published
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Who was the real St Crispin, and what did he have to do with the Battle of Agincourt?
You have questions about Shakespeare's most famous speech. We have answers.
By Ian Morton Published
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Dawn Chorus: Watching telly with The Queen, the one-bedroom wreck that fetched £2 million and our Quiz of the Day
Plus a Paddington Bear hamper, an ancient tree and a house with a terrifying price tag — it's Friday's Dawn Chorus.
By Toby Keel Published
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Good news for South London's most famous dinosaurs as the National Heritage Lottery Fund set to spend £30 million on its 30th anniversary
Castles, railway stations and Victorian dinosaurs are among the beneficiaries as the National Lottery Heritage Fund announces its latest plans.
By Annunciata Elwes Published
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The Dawn Chorus: A goose and its conker, naked rollerskating nuns and a £4.2 million bronze buck
Plus, a koi massacre blamed on otters and the property of the day.
By James Fisher Published
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Dawn Chorus: The English region named as one of the world's 10 finest destinations, RHS Chelsea going to the dogs, and our Quiz of the Day
East Anglia is in at number eight in the latest Lonely Planet list.
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life 23 October 2024
Country Life 23 October 2024 meets Britain's most pampered dogs, breezes through Victorian houses and tells the story of St Crispin's Day.
By Country Life Published
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The Dawn Chorus: The Eden Project's rarest plant is destined to take its own life
One of Britain's most popular tourist spots has got itself a Madagascan suicide palm, one of the world's rarest plants. When you find out how its lifecycle goes, you won't be surprised that there aren't many around.
By Toby Keel Published
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The Dawn Chorus: We tried a Guinness shandy so you don't have to
Plus the quiz of the day, swimming the Channel three times to raise money for the Garden Museum, and why the moon looks so big and bright.
By James Fisher Published
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London as you've never seen it — and as you'll never see it again
The East End of London has changed rapidly in recent years, but photographer Paul Trevor chronicled it from the 1970s to the 1990s. His images have been collected in a new book, Market Day.
By Annunciata Elwes Published
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Dawn Chorus: 'If we don’t decarbonise heat, we’re b*ggered'
Straight talking from a business-minded climate activist, plus two of the few professional models to appear in a Country Life photoshoot.
By Toby Keel Published
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Conker cheating scandal rocks world championships, a kingfisher becomes ungovernable, and dogs in the army rewarded with latest tech: It's the Dawn Chorus
Plus, the quiz of the day, a modern day Arts-and-Crafts masterpiece for sale, plus Jane Austen's writing desk returns to Southampton — it's the Dawn Chorus, our regular daily round-up of things you don't need to know, but you will enjoy finding out about nonetheless.
By James Fisher Published
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Country Life 16 October 2024
Country Life 16 October 2024 visits Holyrood Palace, tells the 90-million-year tale of the South Downs and looks at carnivorous plants.
By Country Life Published
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Dawn Chorus: The dog that costs £120,000, the definition of English style, great balls of fire and the Quiz of the Day
Plus, a €12 million estate, and a rare outbreak of good news in Britain's waterways — it's The Dawn Chorus, our regular daily round-up of things you don't need to know, but will enjoy finding out about nonetheless.
By Toby Keel Published
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Dawn Chorus: The future of life on Earth, a Surrey house that's 'like being in the Highlands', accidentally unplugging Steven Hawking and the Quiz of the Day
Plus, the answer to a question nobody has been asking: can you boil eggs in the kettle?
By Toby Keel Published
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Dawn Chorus: David Hockney in the south of France, Christmas lights, quiz, and how to eat a hamburger like the royals
A painting from Hockney's time in the south of France sells well at Sotheby's, an ambitious plan to save Scotland's capercaillie, plus you've been eating hamburgers wrong.
By James Fisher Published