Country Life Today
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Country Life Today: The answer to global warming could be as beautiful as it is simple - 2,500,000,000,000 trees
Planting 1 billion hectares of trees might just solve the climate crisis, according to new research; underwater explorers in Egypt; and how the first package holiday in history was a 12-mile trip.
By Toby Keel Published
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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.
By Toby Keel Published
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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.
By Toby Keel Published
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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.
By Toby Keel Published
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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'.
By Toby Keel Published
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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.
By Toby Keel Published
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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.
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life Today: Holidays on Rockall, personal jetpacks and Love Island for rhinos
Today's edition of our daily news round-up takes a look at the future of transport, how efforts to save rhinos actually work and gives an update on a Country Life's staffer in her efforts to go plastic-free.
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life Today: A very 2019 take on the Good Life — Yoga classes, an art gallery and deliveries from Waitrose
This morning we take a look at how getting away from it all doesn't mean roughing it any more, how women will beat men to colonise space and the millions of giant goldfish who've bred from those which have been flushed into the sewers.
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life Today: How a seal singing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' could help treat human speech disorders
The Sussexes split from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's charity; the wallaby who roamed the Norfolk countryside; how to cook asparagus in the toaster.
By Alexandra Fraser Published
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Country Life Today: The song of the world's rarest whale recorded for the first time in history
This morning you can hear the song of the Pacific right whale, see how nature at Chernobyl has recovered and discover the surprising fate of the first steam ship to cross the Atlantic.
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life Today: The surprising truth about cows breaking wind
This morning we look at why studying animals' noxious emissions can help us make the world a better place, celebrate the anniversary of the house of Windsor and wonder at the greatest photographs in the galaxy.
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life Today: How puppy dog eyes are the finest evolutionary trick of man's best friend
Today, we look at how puppy dog eyes are a touch of evolutionary genius, how new road signs will help save hedgehogs, Wisley in Spring and success for Boaty McBoatface.
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life Today: Scottish paradise seeks teachers for school with six children
If you're looking for a place to start a new life, this morning's news round-up has the answer.
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life Today: How Prince Charles's garden at Highgrove has raised millions for charity
Highgrove's huge contribution; a new burger that looks, tastes and even 'bleeds' like meat; new research on zebra stripes; and happy birthday to Henley Royal Regatta, which began 180 years ago today.
By Alexandra Fraser Published
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Country Life Today: World's fattest parrot on brink of extinction, and a solution to the misery of leaves on the track
Today we look at New Zealand's charming kakapo parrot, how 21st technology can solve the oldest problem on the railways and enjoy wonderful footage of birds in springtime.
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life Today: The wettest June on record, what 'net zero' actually means and the human-powered aeroplane
Why almost 100mm of rain has the Met Office issuing yellow warnings; what the government's promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions entails; why areas of Devon have banned fireworks to protect their starling population.
By Alexandra Fraser Published
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Country Life Today: Has the Loch Ness monster given the game away by urinating in the water?
We take a look at the latest evidence that something extraordinary lurks in Loch Ness, breathe a sigh of relief that the nightmare is over for a very long-suffering farmer and wish a happy birthday to the Duke of Edinburgh.
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life Today: Why keeping your dog healthy means looking after yourself, and the discarded coin sold for £550k
Today's news round-up looks at how dogs take on our own stress levels, tells the tale of a chance find worth £550,000 and finds a novel way to cut the tonnes of food thrown away in Britain each year.
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life Today: The RAF weathermen who saved D-Day and the bees who have learned to read
The story of the aircrew who gave their lives to prevent D-Day becoming a disaster, how bees are learning to read, how nuclear submarines are being subsidised by your electricity bills and why we won't be living on Mars in 2050 after all (it'll be another planet instead).
By Alexandra Fraser Published
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Country Life Today: The astonishingly simple solution to making our canals litter-free and beautiful
Today we look at why our canals have become rivers of plastic, but it needn't be that way; the scrapping of the M4 relief road in South Wales; and the first baby crane hatched at Wicken Fen in half a millennium.
By Alexandra Fraser Published