Country Life12h
Britain lost 25 million of its ‘graceful giants’, the elm tree — but there’s finally real hope that they are coming back
Once the hallmark of a rural idyll, our English elms were almost eradicated by the devastating fungal infection of Dutch Elm ...
Country Life8h
Where have all the salmon gone, and what can we do about it?
The wild Atlantic salmon, kingpin and ‘natural royalty’ of the river, is officially an endangered species in Britain. Stocks ...
Country Life8h
In pictures: Farmers march against inheritance tax in London
After it was announced that Agricultural Property Relief is going to be scrapped, farmers, landowners and others took to the ...
Country Life10h
The five most beautiful Advent Calendars of Christmas
Choo choo! Coppenrath is a German manufacturer of beautiful traditional Advent calendars. This one takes the child on a ...
Country Life22h
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 ...
Country Life1d
John Lewis-Stempel: Into the deep of England’s lakes
Beneath the crystal-clear, alien world of water lie the great piscean survivors of the Ice Age. The Lake District is a ...
Country Life1d
Queen Camilla says ‘sad farewell’ to her beloved Jack Russell, Beth
Her Majesty Queen Camilla's much-loved Jack Russell terrier Beth has died.
Country Life1d
Buy a guitar from Jeff Beck, unpicking the Massacre of Glencoe and why you might go to prison for trimming a hedge
Highlights of the sale include his iconic 1954 ‘Oxblood’ Gibson les Paul, his ‘Yardburst’ Les paul from 1958, the ‘Tele-Gib’ ...
Country Life1d
Lost and then found: A missing painting by Lord Leighton returns to London
Frederic, Lord Leighton’s artworks have a tendency to disappear. Flaming June is perhaps the most famous of those that pulled ...
Country Life2d
‘That first taste, six months later, was a quiet revelation’: Mark Diacono on how he was inspired to grow his own vegetables
Our grow-your-own expert Mark Diacono looks back on the early days of his growing, and how things he'd never heard of such as ...
Country Life4d
Skate at Somerset House is the friendliest thing you’ll ever do in London
You can always rely on the kindness of strangers: Skate at Somerset House.
Country Life3d
Dummy eyes, faking death and and the whiff of rotting flesh: The great deceptions of Nature’s most cunning creatures
A whiff of rotting flesh, the flash of a painted eye, a dead-faint to the floor: Nature is full of cunning survival tricks, ...