News Archive | July 2019

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July 31st
- Jousting gallops into the 21st century with cutting-edge VAR technology
- Trial aims to reveal the secrets to beautiful hanging baskets
- Prince Charles publishes Village Survival Guide featuring ideas for getting the most out of country life
- World’s first protected area for basking sharks to be set up in Scotland
- Our sand dunes are under threat, but new funding could restore them to health
- Country Life Today: Britain's 10 hottest years, Tintagel's new bridge and how cathedrals are bringing their flocks a touch of the funfair
- A holy-in-one? Rochester Cathedral opens its own crazy golf course — and Norwich has a helter-skelter on the way
July 30th
- The world tree planting record has been broken by Ethiopia as they lead the world in this clever way to tackle climate change
- Swollen tongues and black mouths: Competitors tuck in at World Nettle Eating Championship
- Country Life Today: Buy your own volcano in Devon for the price of a family car
July 29th
- How wild potatoes could help spuds resist the deadly blight that caused the Irish Potato Famine
- Country Life Today: 'Weather on steroids' will be the new normal
- Today is 'Earth Overshoot Day', when every natural resource we use for the rest of 2019 can't be renewed
July 28th
- A 'brand new' Anglo Saxon palace is being built with authentic 1,000-year-old trees in Oxfordshire
July 26th
- Country Life Today: The dying tree kept alive by its children
July 25th
- Country Life Today: Baby owls, ancient kings and what the new Environment Secretary means for the British countryside
July 24th
- Country Life Today: The 100 million reasons why organic apples really do keep the doctor away — and taste better too
July 23rd
- Country Life Today: How bringing back our peat bogs could save Britain £100 billion
July 22nd
- Country Life Today: The seagull who flew off with a dog in its beak
July 19th
- Country Life Today: The farmer who made a 23ft gap in Offa's Dyke — and tried to blame his sheep
July 18th
- Country Life Today: Why thousands of discarded banana peels are making Ben Nevis an increasingly treacherous climb
July 17th
- Country Life Today: The town-dwelling sheepdogs that end up needing counselling
July 16th
- Country Life Today: The 1,000-year-old road in Wales that's just been named the world's steepest street
July 15th
- Country Life Today: The good, the bad and the beautiful of what life is really like on a Scottish island
July 12th
- Country Life Today: We have 18 months to save the planet, says Prince Charles, and it's time to lead by example
July 11th
- Country Life Today: Why miles and miles of one of our National Parks was turned over to a group of teenagers
July 10th
- Country Life Today: Planting a tree? Leave that to me, says The Queen, aged 93
July 9th
- Country Life Today: Why the search is on for Britain's shiniest grass
July 8th
- Country Life Today: The 'simply appalling' realities of inheriting an enormous country estate
July 5th
- Country Life Today: The answer to global warming could be as beautiful as it is simple - 2,500,000,000,000 trees
July 4th
- Country Life Today: Baby Archie's 'secret godparents' and the truth about the sharks off Devon
July 3rd
- Country Life Today: The Stonehenge Tunnel could be cancelled before work has even begun
July 2nd
- Country Life Today: The man who tried to buy a field, and accidentally ended up with a 13th century castle
July 1st
- Country Life Today: Keep an eye out for the reticulated python roaming Cambridge