News Archive | October 2019

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October 31st
- 'No Barry, this is how we are going to do it. Just keep the camera rolling': Queen poses as she never has before
- Country Life Today: Chicken charity rescues its 100,000th hen
October 30th
- UK's oldest patch of snow 'clings on' for another winter
- Walkers warned to be 'tick aware' after brain disease found in UK for first time
- Clucking good news as chicken charity rescues its 100,000th hen
- Country Life Today: The impact of climate change on British butterflies
October 29th
- ‘My daddy works very hard and cares about his cows': Seven-year-old farmer's daughter sends beautiful letter that's been read by millions
- Country Life Today: Victory for dolphins and whales in battle against underwater noise
- Wildcats set to return to the English countryside
- Campaigners fight to save Winston Churchill's pub
October 28th
- Survey reveals strong support for British farming standards
- Country Life Today: Auckland Castle, Durham's ancient Bishop's palace, reopens to the public
October 26th
- Farmer's giant tractor beats pyramid of farm animals and spectacular straw sausage dog to win Wheat Art competition
October 25th
- Storm damage leaves Cornish beach 'unpredictable and dynamic' with rise in lifeboat rescues
- Country Life Today: The first Atlantic grey seal pups of the season, spotted on the Farne Islands
October 24th
- 'Hectic workloads and family pressures' leave women unable to enjoy countryside, poll reveals
- Country Life Today: From box office hits to Disney classics, does your dog's name feature on most popular list?
October 23rd
- Pici the Jack Russell named Britain's Naughtiest Dog for 2019
- New Forest cattle to be dehorned — and walkers who have 'lost any respect' for nature are blamed
- If you go down to the beach today... be careful not to step on a potentially-deadly jellyfish
- Country Life Today: England named world's second best tourist destination
October 22nd
- Elastic bands pose fresh threat to birds on Mullion Island sanctuary
- Durham Cathedral rocks its first-ever stone sale, raising more than £125,000
- Drying peatlands could release carbon, worsening climate change, according to scientists
- The Oxford house where JRR Tolkien wrote The Hobbit hits the market
- Country Life Today: hope on the horizon for coral
October 21st
- The spot on the chalky hills of Wiltshire and Dorset named as one of the finest places in the world for stargazing
- The end of arable farming in the Garden of England? South East 'could become too hot and dry' to grow crops
- Prince George is 'obsessed' with farming, says Prince William, as he opens up about his passion
- Country Life Today: Happy Apple Day, and the sad mystery of the Coventry wagtails
October 18th
- Entire Derbyshire village is recreated in whisky-laced fruit cake
- 'Our heritage needs to be saved': Treasured lighthouses among historic buildings at risk
- Country Life Today: The ASBO-worthy peacocks causing chaos in a sleepy English village
October 17th
- Flat caps, eco-friendly packed lunches and Stranger Things: How our environment is shaping our shopping habits
- Country Life Today: Returning rivers to their natural path
October 16th
- 'It pulls at my heart strings in a way I could have never understood': Prince Harry delivers emotional speech on parenthood
- Were the celebrations about the end of fracking premature? Cuadrilla vows to apply for new permission
- Country Life Today: Scottish cattle numbers 'at lowest level for 60 years'
- London's 2019 Winter Arts & Antiques Fair promises treasures untold
October 15th
- Why snail farming is sweeping across the countryside
- Police baffled as thieves steal artwork from city street in centre of Bath
- Country Life Today: Conservationists welcome the new Environment Bill but some wonder whether it will make it into law
October 14th
- Rise in late-born baby hedgehogs means many may struggle to survive winter in a further blow to the troubled species
- 'The end of fracking in the UK': Campaigners claim victory as Lancashire drilling site begins shutdown
- Country Life Today: Britain's longest-running building project is about to come to an end
October 11th
- How we're helping heroes — but far too many are still left to fend for themselves
- Country Life Today: The Ritz hotel set to go up for sale - with a 10-figure price tag
October 10th
- 'It's like looking in the mirror': Prince Harry meets up with Ed Sheeran for World Mental Health Day
- No-deal tariffs for farmers are 'cripplingly high' and would make British dairy products 'uncompetitive'
- Country Life Today: Enjoying great outdoors as nights draw in promotes year-round wellbeing
- Ancient woodland saved from HS2 — but only for the time being, and campaigners are worried
October 9th
- 'A superb weapon in the battle against climate change': Plans to plant one million trees in Northumberland
- State of Nature: Britain's biodiversity is under threat but it can yet be saved
- Country Life Today: Man's best friend holds the secret to longevity
October 8th
- 30ft humpback whale in the Thames 'not doing anything out of the ordinary'
- Country Life Today: Sir David Attenborough's heartfelt call to arms
October 7th
- Country Life Today: How plants feel 'pain' - and warn each other when they're about to get eaten
October 4th
- Scotland's new spaceport: Row heats up as proposals come under scrutiny for the first time
- A 'hidden house' tucked away in one of Norwich's prettiest lanes is up for sale at a knock-down price
- 'Green sheep' on the way as Scottish scientists set out to breed more eco-friendly lambs
- Country Life Today: Humans release more carbon emissions than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
October 3rd
- Heroic farmer rescues inquisitive calf that squeezed itself 240ft down an underground water pipe
- Country Life Today: What’ssss down there? Six-foot python found in a carpark
October 2nd
- The 'massive overhaul' needed in National Parks and AONBs to rejuvenate our living, breathing, farming landscape
- Country Life Today: 'Nature's most adorable assassins' released into the wilds of Gloucestershire
October 1st
- Glasgow says goodbye to the man who has saved 1,500 people from drowning in the Clyde
- RSPCA begs public to adopt rather than buy dogs as 'designer' and 'handbag' dogs are abandoned in huge numbers
- Country Life Today: The paper wasp arrives in Britain for the first time