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What is everyone talking about this year: The countryside news that will definitely dominate the headlines in 2026, according to Country Life
Country Life's Kate Green takes a stab at guessing what countryside news will make the headlines in 2026.
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Six things that Britain should be proud of, from world-class restaurants and Championship-winning cars to the countryside
It is too easy to dismiss 2025 as a downbeat year of failure, but good things did happen.
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'Herod’s catapult has been confiscated': The Nativity play that might be alright on the night
Never work with animals and children, they say, but surely it isn’t a proper Nativity without them?
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170 years ago, a river of excrement ran through the centre of London, spreading stench, disease and death. The engineer and architect who cleaned it up deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Christopher Wren
The architect and engineer Joseph Bazalgette made a contribution to British life and the wellbeing of its people that cannot be overstated. Kate Green celebrates his life and legacy.
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It's hot, but that's good for the English wines
Vineyard numbers, yields and sugars are up, but without Government support, this rapidly growing sector might 'miss our chance'.
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Storm overflow plan 'needs flushing down the lavatory once and for all' say angling groups as perilous state of English rivers revealed
The recently published Cunliffe Report shows that 'waterways are suffering from chronic neglect, corporate greed and useless regulation'.
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No job too big: Britain's native breeds can save our countryside
Britain’s native breeds and their grazing talents are an integral part of the drive to balance food production with biodiversity recovery. We should look closer to home in the quest to re-create the natural habitats of the past
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The legacy of Dad's Army
Kate Green takes a look at Dad’s Army, the iconic BBC sitcom written by David Croft and Jimmy Perry.
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Lights, camera, country house, action: The gorgeous estates where The Gentlemen and Bridgerton were filmed
Badminton House in Gloucestershire, seat of the Dukes of Beaufort, is rarely open to the public but has had plenty of screentime in hit TV shows.
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'It was like Fawlty Towers at first': How diversification keeps the country house standing
From festivals and car shows, to spas and wedding venues, country house owners are getting creative to keep their estates alive.
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Hampshire better to visit than the Galapagos Islands? It's not so crazy as you might think
Jane Austen's England — and Hampshire in particular — are being lauded in the anniversary year of the author's birth. And quite rightly so, says Kate Green.
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Unputdownable: The books you wish you had been given for Christmas
Country Life's reviewers name the books that have most absorbed them this year, with topics ranging from grey partridges to cricket, rock music, wolves and medieval history, plus the most diverting fiction.
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The racehorse trainer: 'Christmas Day is the only day of the year that I actually ride a horse'
Kate Green meets Philip Hobbs and Johnson White, in our series on the people who make Christmas in the country the joy it is, to discover how racehorses are looked after even when everyone else is inside with turkey and mince pies.
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The award-winning cook who makes 5,000 Christmas puddings a year, every single one of them by hand
Kate Green talks to Wizz Gambier, the woman who lives and breathes Christmas puddings, in our series on the people who make Christmas in the country the joy it is.
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The cathedral choirmaster: 'The thing I love about the Christmas repertoire is the mix of modern and ancient'
Today's piece in our series on the people who make Christmas in the country sees Kate Green meet Tim Parsons at Wells Cathedral.
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La Fantaisie hotel review: A boutique hotel in the atmospheric Faubourg Montmartre area of Paris
Kate Green enjoys the charming ambience of La Fantaisie, the perfect spot from which to explore the hip 9th arrondissement.
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The Christmas Carol songbook that changed the sound of Christmas
Kate Green takes a look at the musical legacy of Sir David Willcocks through his book Carols for Choirs.
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John McCrae: The solider, surgeon and poet whose words inspired the Poppy Appeal
John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance for ever more. Kate Green tells his story.
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Opinion: The doom-laden terminology of conservation campaigners is dragging us down — it's time we embraced some optimism
We’re not perfect, says Kate Green, but nor are we bottom of the class — and it's time we embraced that.
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The Legacy: Arthur Hobhouse and the creation of our national parks
Legendarily beautiful, Hobhouse chaired the committee that prepared the legislation to create national parks in 1949, with the first, the Peak District, established in 1951.
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Burghley Horse Trials preview: From Paris, with love
British equestrian sport is riding high post-Olympics and next month’s Defender Burghley Horse Trials, which has attracted an illustrious entry, should show it in its best light.
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Rarer than pandas: Meet the native breeds that have a crucial role to play in food security and conservation
Some treasured native farm animals have fallen dangerously low in numbers. Kate Green meets the breeders keeping the flame alive.
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The Legacy: Godfred Baseley, the man who invented The Archers
We take a brief look at the life and inspiration of the man behind the world's longest running radio serial.
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Reaching Olympian heights: 10 moments which define the original spirit of The Olympics
As the Olympic games begins this weekend, Country Life looks back to moments that were inspired by the ideals of Faster, Higher, Stronger and Together.
