Natural light, height and space might be the ideal, but designers often tackle rooms that have few, if any, of these ...

The government has proposed to remove the Garden Trust's position as a statutory consultee in planning permissions for up to 1,700 historic landscapes and gardens in order to speed up building.

Climate change means increasingly unbearable heat and dangerous wildfires across swathes of Europe — so what is the alternative? Words and photographs by Emma Lavelle.

Sophia Money-Coutts is the new Debrett's and she's here every Wednesday to set some modern etiquette wrongs, right.

Jenkins, faced with the colossal challenge of illustrating Homer's 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey', eschewed grandstand views ...

The first golden eagle to fledge from the nest of a translocated bird has been rewarded with a name selected by Sir David Attenborough.

Art Deco, with its exuberant passion for geometry, luxury and shiny chrome, cocooned troubled times in a layer of glitz. A century after the style gained its name, Gavin Plumley surveys one of the ...

Blue skies and rising mercury have been a theme of this summer, but there are always those who thrive and those who struggle in unusual times.

The Country Life quiz runs daily every afternoon, with new editions published at 4pm. SOS by ABBA is the only British chart hit in which both the artist and song title are palindromes. True or false?

Alas, the age of the hot hatch is reaching something of a nadir. Environmental targets and petrol-powered performance ...

As summer temperatures continue to soar, fans — long considered a fashion anachronism — are back in the style spotlight.

In 1985, Neil Armstrong and Sir Edmund Hillary adventured to the North Pole; 40 years later, their children re-created the expedition.