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A teenager on his gap year who saved a boy and his father from being savaged by a crocodile is one of a host of heroic acts celebrated in a book to mark the 250th anniversary of the Royal Humane Society, says its author Rupert Uloth.
Peat bogs sequester huge amounts of carbon — yet peat is still being cut and sold across Britain. It's time for that to stop for good, say campaigners.
This week's Property Talk looks at the price you'll pay to be near a top school, and the picturesque area which more second homes than any other part of the country.
National Racehorse Week returns for the fourth consecutive year next month, in a bid ‘to show the public what life as a racehorse is really like’.
This year's theme is 'Magnificent Oaks', and the competition aims to spread awareness that trees have little legal protection, according to organisers the Woodland Trust.
Admission is free to Charlie Waite's Light & Land exhibition at the Mall Galleries.
We've all been delayed on or waiting for a train due to some nonsense on the line. Now, Network Rail have released a list of the culprits.
Are your sheep ugly? Do you want new, pretty ones? We have just the sale for you.
If you think you and your siblings don't get on, just wait until you see what Charles Dickens's children said about each other.
Latest data from Jackson-Stops' Property Pulse Survey shows that we want to live near pubs, doctors, and some good shops.
The note, printed in 1998 to celebrate 100 years of Philippine independence, is legal tender and larger than a piece of A4 paper.
The ship was captained by John Wordsworth, brother of the romantic poet William, and sunk off the notorious Shambles bank in Dorset.
The nation's largest farming union has urged the Government to not let domestic food production drop below current levels.
Scientists at the Roslin Institute at Edinburgh believe that they can reduce non-native species proliferating without culling, and are asking the Government for support.
From August 29, you can bid on rare guitars, a Steinway piano from Abbey Road, art by John Lennon and a costume from Gladiator II, among other items.
We take a brief look at the life and inspiration of the man behind the world's longest running radio serial.
A new report from Historic England suggests that, despite high demand for the work, the profession is struggling.
Recent research has discovered that one moor in Yorkshire stores as much carbon as one million cars would release in a year, highlighting why we need to restore them.
Now is the time to buy a house by the water, according to research conducted exclusively for Country Life by Jackson-Stops. Annunciata Elwes finds out why.
