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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hedgehog numbers have plunged in the last 20 years — but help is at hand

Annunciata Elwes reports on the new National Hedgehog Conservation Strategy that's been created by two key conservation organisations.

The surprise English region named as one of the world's 10 finest destinations

East Anglia is in at number eight in the latest Lonely Planet list.

Dawn Chorus: How to weigh a Galapagos tortoise, Wes Streeting refuses to be fired out of a cannon and the international crisp festival

A new website allowing the public to submit ideas on how to improve the NHS has, of course, been flooded with ridiculous suggestions.

The average homeowner in the UK is sitting on a huge nest egg