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Things to do: The International Art Fair, the Talking Garden at Highgrove and a new spring ballet

Country Life rounds up the best things to see, do and book this week.

£3.5 million campaign launched to save Derek Jarman's iconic Prospect Cottage for the nation

Art Fund is running a campaign to save Prospect Cottage, the former home of film director Derek Jarman, which has become a place of pilgrimage in the years since his death. James Fisher reports.

Farming, the countryside and Brexit: 'If the 287 million dairy cows in the world were all as efficient as ours, we might get somewhere'

Kate Green reports back from the Oxford Farming Conference, where farmers, environmentalists and the DEFRA secretary locked horns on the future of the British countryside.

2020 anniversaries: The defining dates to look out for in the next 12 months

In Focus: How a taped banana questioned the meaning of art

Made with a banana duct-taped to a wall, The Comedian, the latest installation by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, sparked the debate on what is a work of art — especially after the fruit was eaten by performance artist David Datuna.

London's iconic red bus at risk and 6,000 year old chewing gum gives clues into our DNA history

90-million-year-old 'swimming dinosaur' skeleton found by dogs out walking in Somerset, and the nonchalant moths who don't bother fleeing enemies

Battle to ban 4x4s from the idyllic Lake District spot bequeathed by Beatrix Potter, eagle fights octopus and the 'snail's pace' climate talks

The 'perfect whisky collection' is to go under the hammer — and it's expected to fetch £8 million

Almost 4,000 rare or unusual bottles, accumulated over the course of two decades by American businessman Richard Gooding, will go on sale next years and could fetch £8 million.

County Life Today: What do the election results mean for the British countryside?

Country Life Today: How Greta Thunberg shifted the dial on climate change — and the backlash shows just how much

Bird flu outbreak hits chicken farm in Suffolk

Country Life Today: Great news for those who love our great country pubs — the years of decline are over

'A jumper is for life — not just for Christmas' urge campaigners against Yuletide 'fast fashion'

Some 12 million seasonal jumpers will be sold this year and the vast majority are made of plastic, exacerbating the devastating impact that fast-fashion is having on the planet.

Country Life Today: Spain accused of being 'a deplorable choice' for UN climate conference

A no-holds-barred assault on the Spanish fishing industry, Banksy raising awareness of the homeless and the woes of the Christmas jumper are in today's news round-up.

Country Life Today: 'This is perhaps the ultimate wake-up call from the uncontrolled experiment humanity is unleashing on the world’s oceans'

In today's round up, we examine why oxygen loss is putting oceans at risk, discover that action to cut air pollution brings almost immediate benefits to human health and find out which bird's arrival marks the start of winter in Gloucestershire.

A countryside dweller's guide to the 2019 General Election: Who will do what, and where, and when?

With the general election fast-approaching, discover what each of the main parties plans for the countryside, farming and the environment.

Country Life Today: Why plastic is killing hermit crabs

In today's round-up, we learn than half a million hermit crabs have died from plastic pollution; find out what the Pope has to say about climate change; and discover why NASA have been 'bombing' the sun.

Country Life Today: British farmers want to lead the fight on climate change

Farmers want to take action to battle climate change and many are already doing so, while we also pay tribute to former England cricket captain Bob Willis.

Country Life Today: The most popular dogs' names of 2019 have been revealed

A poll of two million pet owners has revealed the most popular dog names in Britain, plus we take a look at the Mary Celeste and a magical combine harvester.