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Bentley tells us the future and announces fully electric car for 2026
The electrification of the auto industry continues apace, with Bentley the latest firm to announce plans to produce a fully electric car in 2026. The announcement confirms the brand’s commitment to ...
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Agromenes: A budget of betrayal
Labour has turned it's back on the farming community with its latest plans on Agricultural Property Relief. Labour has, in a ...
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Living in the real-life Cotchester, why would anyone buy a public toilet near Truro and how it took 21 years to designate a footpath
Plus the quiz of the day, saving Britain's most southerly post office, and the quiz of the day — it's the Dawn Chorus ...
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‘The regular Satanic sort of thing’, ‘an appurtenance of terror’, or ‘capillary decorations’: The moustache still divides opinion
We can all agree that growing a moustache for charity is a good idea. But is it worth keeping afterwards? Harry Pearson looks to the past to find the answers.
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The law of unintended consequences is teaming up with Britain’s latest tax rises — and it’ll hit our historic houses hard
Country Life's cultural commentator Athena takes a closer look at last week's budget and foresees trouble ahead.
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The seven types of gentleman
There have arguably been few men placed under greater stress than Sir Winston Churchill, yet he consistently broadcast ...
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Inside The Painswick hotel’s brand new holiday cottage
One of the Cotswold's most charming country house hotels has snapped up a neighbouring cottage and given it a new lease of ...
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Curious Questions: How did a scrotum joke confuse paleontologists for generations?
One of the earliest depictions of a fossil prompted a joke — or perhaps a misunderstanding — which coloured the view of ...
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Giant spiders, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on leather, velvet and growing old disgracefully and a home fit for Gunpowder Plotting
Along a similar vein is the annual scare story of giant spiders invading our homes over winter. Today, the Independent tells ...
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London’s Lost Interiors: Inside the houses of the capital’s plutocrats in the days when money was literally no object
Lost Interiors', explores the lost riches of London’s grand houses. Its author, Steven Brindle, looks at the residences of ...
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‘Prepare to be amazed’ by a cathedral of autumn in the heart of Herefordshire
The garden at Hergest Croft, Herefordshire — home of Edward Banks — is an extraordinary collection of trees and shrubs, many ...
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Patrick Galbraith: ‘What struck me is that English vineyards represent a rare example of farmland being re-peopled’
Going grape picking gives a glimpse of what the rural past would have looked like. A small stretch of the Rochdale Canal, which runs through Castleton in Greater Manchester, has, says my poet friend ...