4+ hour, 17+ min ago  (281+ words) Country Life You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful As the Season gets under way this month, Britain's intelligentsia will descend upon the Hay Festival. I've always loved that a glorified book fair on the Welsh borders can…...

21+ hour, 17+ min ago  (807+ words) Ahead of National Rescue Dog Day on May 20, we look at Battersea's enduring legacy of rescuing and rehoming dogs, the families who say they cannot imagine life without them and why these dogs continue to change lives. Not all dogs…...

1+ day, 17+ min ago  (241+ words) From the outskirts of London to the open spaces of Derbyshire, here's our pick of the places to come up for sale through Country Life this week. A 500-year-old coach house that's been lavished with attention in the last 20 years,…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (353+ words) Country Life's stand at this year's Chelsea Flower Show demonstrates the power of the pen and the pencil. One of the many joys of collaboration is that the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts. So when…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (829+ words) Together with tales of spectral apparitions, many mysteries surround the building of Chavenage. What is certain is that the house has an extraordinary charm typical of the Cotswolds. You might recognise Chavenage House, in the heart of the south Cotswolds…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (479+ words) With the new series of Disney+'s 'Rivals' becoming the most talked-about TV series of the year, we take a look at six Cotswolds homes that look like they've just leapt out of the pages of a Jilly Cooper bonkbuster....

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (424+ words) It may be years before Alexander Poots gets his own allotment, but maybe the waiting is part of the journey. The sun appeared in Belfast yesterday. First warmth of Spring and all the men wore shorts. Belfast men wear shorts…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1176+ words) Chris Cotonou journeys to New Zealand, where dramatic landscapes conspire to slow time and stir the soul. Before passport control, visitors at Auckland airport must pass another threshold: a carved wooden gateway, known in M'ori as a tomokanga " a scene…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (623+ words) Bella Mac Lean and Alex Hassell speak to Meg Walters about season two of Rivals and the sex appeal of the Cotswolds. "I had no relationship with the Cotswolds before coming on board," Alex says when I meet him and…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (173+ words) In the first of our new series on "unloved birds, we take a beady-eyed look at the charred black carrion crow, the clever corvid with the coarse voice. If we had to pick a mascot for the Unloved Birds Club,…...