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Climbing towards the summit of Ben Nevis. Credit: Alamy Country Life Today: Why thousands of discarded banana peels are making Ben Nevis an increasingly treacherous climb
Why abandoned banana peels are making Ben Nevis a treacherous climb; how snow cannons could save our ice caps; the new test which could put an end to bovine TB.
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Hurlingham Polo International, Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club, Windsor, Berkshire Credit: Sam Churchill Things to do: Edinburgh Food Festival, ballet under the stars and the Hurlingham International Polo Day
Country Life rounds up the best things to see, do and book this week.
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Border Collies are definitely happier in fields than on sofas... Credit: Alamy Country Life Today: The town-dwelling sheepdogs that end up needing counselling
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Ffordd Pen Llech is not only steeper than Baldwin Street, it's also much harder to spell. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Country Life Today: The 1,000-year-old road in Wales that's just been named the world's steepest street
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The view out to sea from Colonsay. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Country Life Today: The good, the bad and the beautiful of what life is really like on a Scottish island
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Prince Charles visiting the Millennium Seed Bank. Credit: Getty Country Life Today: We have 18 months to save the planet, says Prince Charles, and it's time to lead by example
The Price of Wales issues a warning about our future; an Oxford don suggests that farming holds the key; and how Henry VIII's final wife is unfairly written off as little more than a nursemaid.
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A spectacular view looking west from the top of Sugar Loaf mountain in the Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons, Wales. Credit: Alamy Country Life Today: Why miles and miles of one of our National Parks was turned over to a group of teenagers
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The hat may be pink but the fingers are green: HM The Queen at NIAB on July 9. Credit: Chris Jackson / Getty Images Country Life Today: Planting a tree? Leave that to me, says The Queen, aged 93
The Queen shows she's still capable of wielding a spade, why gorillas throw parties, bad news for Britain's most famous alpaca and why the government is acting like Dad's Army on climate change.
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Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Country Life Today: Why the search is on for Britain's shiniest grass
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Luss, Loch Lomond. Credit: Alamy Country Life Today: The 'simply appalling' realities of inheriting an enormous country estate
This morning's news round-up offers a warning to be careful what you wish for, cheers for a school nurturing its green-fingered pupils and laments an example of health and safety trumping common sense.
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Morning light in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Country Life Today: The answer to global warming could be as beautiful as it is simple - 2,500,000,000,000 trees
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HRH Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, pose for a photo with their newborn baby son in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle on May 8, 2019. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski / AFP /Getty Images) Country Life Today: Baby Archie's 'secret godparents' and the truth about the sharks off Devon
This morning's news round-up looks at the royal christening, the National Trust's bold stance, good news for cyclists and bad news for those wanting to spot sharks in Devon.
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Credit: Getty Images Country Life Today: The Stonehenge Tunnel could be cancelled before work has even begun
This morning's news looks at how funding problems could spell an end to the tunnel beneath Stonehenge, finds out that heatwaves really are coming more often and reports on a heartbreaking story that reminds us all why guns have no place in the home.
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Carreg Cennen Castle, near Llandeilo, Brecon Beacons National Park, Carmarthenshire Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Country Life Today: The man who tried to buy a field, and accidentally ended up with a 13th century castle
This morning's news round-up looks at what must be one of the most extraordinary boundary mix-ups in history, finds out how Instagram is blighting some of the nation's prettiest streets and checks up on the latest news on how Brexit might affect farming.
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The Reticulated Python is the world's longest snake. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Country Life Today: Keep an eye out for the reticulated python roaming Cambridge
A reticulated python is loose on the streets of the university city; how it feels to be a millionaire landowner while still at secondary school; and a call for Britain to its bit to end the cruelty of 'canned hunting'.
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Meet the neighbours: thy're gorgeous of course, but would you want a pair of lion cubs living next door? Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Country Life Today: The lion cubs living in an English country garden
Our daily look at what's in the news focuses on a pair of lions living in an English village, Queen Victoria's coronation and how June's wet weather was a tragedy for puffins. It also looks at a discovery that could unlock the history of mankind - and a new mission which could unlock its future.
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The Village Museum, Ruddington. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Country Life Today: The Nottinghamshire village museum that's become a global sensation
The highlights of Prince Charles's year; how hundreds of thousands of people on the other side of the world are enjoying Ruddington Village Museum; and the pioneering scientist on our AI masters.
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Black Rhino at Etosha National Park, Namibia. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Country Life Today: Holidays on Rockall, personal jetpacks and Love Island for rhinos
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Stonehenge, Wiltshire. This image was taken by permission by a Historic England staff photographer; most such pictures are not. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo County Life Today: The battle for the skies above Britain's most spectacular monuments
