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The key to a great bathroom? Make it feel more like your sitting room — even to the point of having an armchair next to the bath
Flora Soames is on a mission to encourage more and more of us to embrace the concept of the decorated bathroom.
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The £3 million Van Dyck painting going under the hammer with a unique buy-one-get-one-free offer
If you've ever dreamed of owning an Anthony van Dyck, now's your chance to pick up two in one go — plus more fun from today's ...
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The Legacy: Hans Sloane and the creation of the British Museum
A curious child who grew into a man of voracious intellectual curiosity, his life of collecting gave birth to one of the ...
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100 years of the Shipping Forecast, winning the war on antibiotics and the world’s best young cheesemonger
The shipping forecast is about the most British thing I can think of. It holds a grim fascination for many of us, especially ...
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Minette Batters: ‘There are serious questions to be asked as to whether the advice given to ministers is correct’
The former NFU President and crossbench peer worries about the effects of the latest budget, and asks why we can't test ...
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Grazing sheep to save a church, a report from the farmers’ march and why olive oil will soon be cheap
It was a plague of deathwatch beetles, leading to a £150,000 restoration deficit, that prompted Phillip Bailey, the ...
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The end of deference: Why using the right title matters
It might be an 'old-world problem', but using incorrect form when addressing someone is a symptom of laziness and inaccuracy ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...