This week's Country Life magazine takes a look at how volunteers are instrumental in saving some of our rarest species in the UK. Elsewhere, we find out about the regenerations of the baths in Bath, and take a look at the property market in this fine Georgian city.
In interiors we consider what your front door says about you, and in food and drink our kitchen garden cook makes some mouthwatering recipes with carrots. In architecture, Will Palin reports on a lost Soane masterpiece in Buckinghamshire while Quinlan Terry shares his favourite painting.
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You can’t always rely on the Great British summer — but you can rely on its watchesBritish watchmakers have excelled themselves in recent months — releasing bright and beautiful timepieces that you'll want on your wrist through summer, and beyond.
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Simon Jenkins: 50 years of saving Britain's buildings, from triumphs and disasters to the great country house we bought for £1In 1975, a new organisation was set up with the express aim of saving Britain's most beautiful and historic buildings from the wrecking ball. How has SAVE fared in the 50 years since then far? Simon Jenkins — who was involved as a trustee right from the very start — looks back on half a century of successes... and one or two painful failures.
