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Everything you might've missed last week — including the new Aston Martin
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Under the hammer: A 30-carat aquamarine pendent smuggled out of Russia and recently attributed to Fabergé
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19 completely charming houses for sale across Britain, as seen in Country Life
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'They are inclined to bite and spray acid to protect territory': Meet the feisty red wood ant
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Honey, I shrunk the Ferrari: How to get your hands on (most) of a 250 Testa Rossa for less than £200,000
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Restoration House: The house in the heart of historic Rochester that housed Charles II and inspired Charles Dickens
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Kendal Mint Cake: The happy accident that fuelled the first ascent of Everest
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PEOPLE & PLACES
Property
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19 completely charming houses for sale across Britain, as seen in Country Life
By Toby Keel
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A rare chance to own a Royston Summers house on Lakeside Drive in Esher
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A crenellated folly, seven bedrooms and 20 acres in the glorious Welsh landscape
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Villa Crusoe: A glorious Devon house, with a private beach, for sale for the first time
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Exotic gardens that delight and surround a Grade II-listed manor for sale in Cornwall
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A sublime Huf Haus in West Sussex with some of the finest gardens in the county
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Keira Knightley's Black Doves home is up for sale — and it's a beautiful villa in the neighbourhood dubbed 'South London’s answer to Notting Hill'
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Our expert voices
Interiors
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The Country Life Top 100 architects, interior designers, garden designers, landscape designers and country house specialists in Britain
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The best country house specialists in Britain, from stonemasons and joiners to builders and paint specialists
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The best interior designers in Britain
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All the new entries in the Country Life Top 100 for 2025
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The Country Life Top 100 2025: A triumph of timelessness, substance and longevity over throwaway style
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The timeless elegance of English country house style, with Guy Goodfellow and Steven Rodel
By James Fisher
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Dawn Chorus: Meet Farrow & Ball’s new paint colours, shop the must-have hotel merchandise and find out what Tom Parker Bowles likes to order from Greggs
By Rosie Paterson
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Why size doesn't matter if you've got some decorating derring-do
By Arabella Youens
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LIFE & STYLE
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Chalet Machapuchare: Does France's best ski chalet live up to its reputation?
By James Fisher
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Dawn Chorus: The train line in Yorkshire named as one of the world's top things to do in 2025
By Toby Keel
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I would like to lie on the Rhamses Bed by Louis Malard and be fed grapes
By James Fisher
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There's no place like home: How animals find their way back to their owners is a mystery we are still trying to solve
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COUNTRYSIDE
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'They are inclined to bite and spray acid to protect territory': Meet the feisty red wood ant
By Ian Morton
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The King wants YOU: His Majesty's call-to-arms for under-35s across Britain
By Amie Elizabeth White
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'A big opportunity for a small, crowded and beautiful country': Fiona Reynolds on how the Land Use Framework can make Britain better
By Fiona Reynolds
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Gardens
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Great Comp: The blissful garden flooded with rhododendrons and azaleas that's just beyond the M25
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The best garden and landscape designers in Britain
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'I'm the expert who wrote the RHS's guide to roses — here's why pruning them right now is almost certainly a terrible mistake'
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Forsythia: The spring flower that's a ray of sunshine — and a foolproof option for novice gardeners
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John Morley: A brush with the artist who changed the world of snowdrops
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Alan Titchmarsh: I went a bit mad ordering bulbs — and I'm not even a little bit sorry I did
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ART & CULTURE
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Lady Jane Grey: How the Nine Day Queen lost her head, but found her face
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Michaelangelo: The good, the bad and the disturbingly ugly of one of art's greatest geniuses
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Historic England acquires 8,000-strong collection of early landscape photographs
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'Designer, maker, influencer': How Glyndebourne plans to honour Oliver Messel's legacy this summer
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Travel
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The Barnsdale in Rutland: Is this the UK’s most dog-friendly hotel?
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Dawn Chorus: Heathrow gives its VIP terminal a facelift and King Charles’s Land Rover Defender comes up for sale
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Is L’Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay France’s answer to the very British country house hotel?
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Falcon Farmhouse: A dreamy hilltop retreat with fun on tap
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On the far side of the Himalayas
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Game, set, match: 12 of the world’s most beautiful tennis courts
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Food & Drink
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Kendal Mint Cake: The happy accident that fuelled the first ascent of Everest
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How to make an ethereal-sounding seafood, spinach and asparagus puff-pastry cloud
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How to make a bay and vanilla crème brûlée custard tart
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'Mary Berry has an aversion to a soggy cake bottom and I have one to a flaccid croissant': London's best baked goods by the people in the know
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How to make the 'best pancakes in the universe'
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Seven perfect pancake recipes for Shrove Tuesday
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Curious Questions: Why is pancake day called 'Shrove Tuesday'?
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