Dawn Chorus

Grazing sheep to save a church, a report from the farmers' march and why olive oil will soon be cheap

Plus our favourite property for sale and the quiz of the day.

What happened when Country Life put The Queen's Jack Russells on the Girls with Pearls page

After the sad news that one of Her Majesty The Queen's beloved Jack Russells died at the weekend, today's special edition of the Dawn Chorus looks back at the day that Beth and Bluebell took over Country Life magazine's famous Frontispiece page to become the first ever canine Girls in Pearls.

Buy a guitar from Jeff Beck, unpicking the Massacre of Glencoe and why you might go to prison for trimming a hedge

Plus, a glorious property for sale, watches that are art, and the quiz of the day

A naughty elf, a bridge quits Twitter and how the Americans have come to terms with Mr Blobby

Plus Christian Dior in Scotland, a country house with its own football pitch and the quiz of the day.

How the man who created the British Museum also invented hot chocolate, the £32.5m Notting Hill mansion 'infested with millions of moths', plus our Quiz of the Day

All this plus a gorgeous old Land Rover. We really spoil you every morning at 7am.

Minette Batters solves the Inheritance Tax question, how to buy your own rollercoaster, and why the French are furious about chocolate fingers

Plus the Quiz of the day and the best property for sale.

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 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.

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.

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

Our daily round-up goes supernatural.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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?