Who has the Serpentine chosen to design their 2025 Pavilion, why are Rolls-Royce making nesting boxes for hazel dormice and how is the RHS Chelsea Flower Show honouring the Chelsea Pensioners at this year’s event? We answer all these burning questions in today’s Dawn Chorus.
England will have to fly to overtake runaway favourites France and Ireland in the impending Guinness Six Nations, says Owain Jones, as he sizes up the key players who could change their team’s fate.
The angler extraordinaire joins the Country Life Podcast to talk fishing, conservation and bagpipes on the River Tay.
2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth. Here are exhibitions, events and more — happening across the UK — that mark the occasion.
From cookbooks to cricket, biographies to Sunday Times bestsellers, Country Life contributors name some of their favourite books from last year.
Now that we've successfully negotiated the ice skating season, spare a thought for those in the past who literally put their lives on the line to enjoy winter's most elegant pastime.
The first covered double-decker buses made their debut on the streets of the capital 100 years ago. Rob Crossan steps on board and goes up top to trace the evolution of a true London icon.
Lassie’s epic walk is the stuff of literary legend, but the real-life stories of animals making extraordinary journeys back to where they came from are even stranger than fiction. Richard Sugg investigates.
Lifelong walker, and former director general of the National Trust, Fiona Reynolds selects 12 exhilarating experiences that have personal meaning for her, from mountains to cities and coasts to river valleys.
Our expert dog trainer Ben Randall has advice for owners of new puppies.
The wonderful tale of Thomas Brandreth's Cycloped and the first steam-powered railway.
With lots of people off the sauce, why not head to our list of London's best bars and enjoy them while they're quiet.
Plus, what the famed theatre critic recommends going to see in January.
Big houses and grand spaces leave lots of potential for some strange games. Melanie Cable-Alexander investigates.
The right poster can evoke a film without words, stir nostalgia and entice viewers into cinemas.
Kate Green meets Philip Hobbs and Johnson White, in our series on the people who make Christmas in the country the joy it is, to discover how racehorses are looked after even when everyone else is inside with turkey and mince pies.
Today's piece in our series on the people who make Christmas in the country sees Kate Green meet Tim Parsons at Wells Cathedral.
Our series on the people who make Christmas in the country what it is continues as Paula Lester meets Andrew Holloway.
Most family homes are never more lively and raucous than they are at Christmas, but dogs don't give birth to a schedule. Ben Randall helps a reader worried about how their new puppy will cope.
A glorious cheetah has lit up our inbox this week — plus, can you help save the black poplar? And with the dust having settled, what does the budget really mean for country houses?
