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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

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.

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.

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.

'There are whole fields that are 100% taxpayer funded NOT to grow crops for people to eat'

Former NFU President Minette Batters has entered the House of Lords as Baroness Batters, giving her a new perspective, and a new opportunity to find ways to help British farming.

All the winners from the 2024 Georgian Group Architectural Awards

This year’s Georgian Group’s Architectural Awards, sponsored by Savills, attracted another outstanding crop of entries. Here are all the winners, as chosen by a panel of judges chaired by Country Life's Architectural Editor, John Goodall.

'If we don’t decarbonise heat, we’re b*ggered', plus Country Life's first professional models, and the Quiz of the Day

Straight talking from a business-minded climate activist, plus two of the few professional models to appear in a Country Life photoshoot.

Fresh calls to list Jubilee Line extension stations

The stations opened in 1999 deserve to be recognised and protected from future development, according to campaigners.

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.

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.

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?