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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 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.

House prices 'to go up £84,000 in the next five years' as signs of a fresh boom emerge

Is a new housing boom on the way? Halifax report that British house prices are now at record levels, while Savills has upgraded its forecast for the next five years, with ‘a steady improvement in affordability’ to drive prices up. Annabel Dixon reports.

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.

The First World War, as seen through the unique Country Life Picture Archive

Country Life looks back at the First World War through the lens of the Country Life Archive. View images, read a selection of wartime articles, and also download war artist Muirhead Bone’s first catalogue of drawings, originally published in 1917.

The mini-Hogwarts for sale in north London

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.

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.

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?

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

The law of unintended consequences is teaming up with Britain's latest tax rises — and it'll hit our historic houses hard

Country Life's cultural commentator Athena takes a closer look at last week's budget and foresees trouble ahead.

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.

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.

Sleep divorce, hurkle-durkling, a heartwarming royal father-and-son 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.

'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.

The Stamp Duty surprise, inheritance tax on farms and more: A breakdown of the Autumn Budget

Chancellor Rachel Reeves may have decided against a Capital Gains Tax increase on homes — but she lined up a series of other tax rises in the first Labour budget in 14 years. Annabel Dixon takes the temperature of the housing market in the wake of the announcements.

The mini-White House that's come up for sale in the middle of London

Our daily round-up goes supernatural.

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.

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.

Dawn Chorus: Boost for Orkney wildlife, strange plants to eat and curious lodgings at the COP conference

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.

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.