News Archive | September 2019

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September 30th
- Country Life Today: Prince Harry's powerful words on saving the world - 'We must overcome greed, apathy and selfishness'
September 27th
- Why Beckhithe, a Norfolk hamlet, is fighting to keep its postal address (and its identity)
- 'Extinct' moth returns to Britain after forty years
- Watch out for lungworm, the deadly parasite that threatens dogs across the UK
- Country Life Today: the Scottish farmer who wants to create the first official mobile blackspot
September 26th
- Bees in your home? A new campaign helps people how to deal with a swarm without harming pollinators
- First-edition Harry Potter sells for £27,500
- More than 100,000 pink-footed geese may soon land in Scotland
- Country Life Today: how the humble elderflower became big business
September 25th
- Country Life Today: The £5 million masterpiece that hung for years on the wall of an elderly lady's kitchen
September 24th
- 'Some communities may be cut off': Heavy rain causes havoc across England
- 'Nothing short of remarkable': Humpback whales return to Irish coast 20 years after first sighting
- Sheepdogs are being targeted by rural thieves – here's how you can help protect them
- Country Life Today: How an oak tree can reveal 800 years of environmental history
September 23rd
- Country Life Today: Why every child in Britain should have a chance to camp under the stars in our wonderful countryside
September 21st
- Celebrating 100 years of the Forestry Commission — and 10 of the finest walks on the land they manage
September 20th
- The winners of Shed of the Year have been announced, featuring The Lord of the Rings, the space race — and a shed on the back of a lorry
- Climate strike: Concerned citizens around the world take to the streets to demand a step-change
- Country Life Today: Downton Abbey opens its doors to paying guests... for one night only
September 19th
- Wanted: Trigger-happy water-pistol owners willing to soak a Scottish national treasure created by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Countryside dwellers are victims of 'digital divide', warn MPs — and it must be fixed before they become 'second-class citizens'
- These great Victorian buildings at risk need your help
- Country Life Today: Banksy's Parliamentary masterpiece comes up for auction at what seems the perfect moment
September 18th
- New footage supports theory Loch Ness Monster is actually an eel
- 'A match for anywhere in the world': Award-winning Blue Planet cameraman champions Scotland's stunning coast
- Soothing sounds of woodland proven to be more relaxing than meditation apps or silence
- Country Life Today: Good news for the urban hedgehog and how you can help the species
September 17th
- Not lovin' it: Rutland residents resist McDonald's proposal
- Dog who refuses to walk another step triggers six-man mountain rescue in Lake District
- Country Life Today: Prepare for four heat waves a year and twice as many flash floods, warns MET Office
September 16th
- Country Life Today: Thieves who stole Blenheim Palace's golden loo might be 'the real artists', suggests Cattelan
September 13th
- The most jaw-dropping vegetables from the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show Giant Vegetable competition
- Country Life Today: Half a million painted lady butterflies take to the air in 'once-in-a-decade' emergence
- Prehistoric Britons loved eating cheese 6,000 years ago, according to new finds
September 12th
- 'You’re alive, make the most of it': The 77-year-old British woman who has just become the oldest person to sail around the world
- Lack of ponds a 'national crisis' — but a new plan hopes to bring ancient seeds back to life
- Country Life Today: Time to end the 'catastrophe of the monocultural housing estate', urges Prince's Foundation
September 11th
- #BackBritishFarming day: Eager sheepdogs, bouncing calves and tractor FaceTime
- The gardeners' salvation? Jackdaw develops taste for the vicious Box Moth caterpillar
- Country Life Today: A £1.45 trillion investment could prepare the world for climate change
September 10th
- British farmers lay out detailed plans to be carbon neutral a full 10 years before the government's deadline
- Country Life Today: Your favourite tree needs your vote
September 9th
- Norfolk gets three miles of new beaches in a groundbreaking sandscaping project
- Fancy having a railway of your own? The Hayling Seaside Railway can be yours for £60,000
- Laurie Lee's childhood home, the house that inspired 'Cider with Rosie', is up for sale
- Country Life Today: The fiery reason the sky is turning purple at sunset
September 6th
- The mystery of why more and more whales and dolphins are being stranded on Britain's beaches
- The best pubs in Britain for 2020 have been named — and the top two are within a few minutes of each other
- Loch Ness Monster isn't a dinosaur, say scientists — but it might it be a giant eel
- Country Life Today: Why England's heather is under threat
September 5th
- Invasive Asian hornets that kill up to 50 bees a day spotted across England
- Young film-makers set out to solve the mystery of Big Cats roaming Southern England
- Country Life Today: Lorry accident covers M6 in 32,000 litres of gin
September 4th
- PETA told off by advertising watchdog for claiming that 'wool is just as cruel as fur'
- Carnivorous plant which devours its prey via sticky tentacles is reintroduced to England
- If you go down to the woods... You're sure of a fantastic autumn
- 'The most successful are adaptable to change': Meet the coastal residents at risk of losing their homes
- Country Life Today: Brexit 'turbo-charges' zoo breeding, terrifying barn owls and a royal takeaway
September 3rd
- Urban rooster bringing a touch of the country to South London falls 'fowl' of neighbours
- 'We have been systematically shaping the brains of another species': Study reveals full impact of selective dog breeding
- Country Life Today: Seals living happily in the River Thames, and how Harris Tweed's top producer has been kept safe from rapacious corporate takeover
September 2nd
- Ancient mosaic 'unique in Roman Britain' to be re-buried, despite hundreds of hours spent revealing it to the world
- Country Life Today: The No-deal Brexit house price crash