Is it Elvis? Is it Queen Elizabeth II? Is it Gary Lineker? No, it's an eight-year-old girl called Carole and a terrifying ...

Plum Sykes’s semi-fictional 'Wives Like Us' — the author's sort of satirical take on life in the Cotswolds — reads like a death knell to normalcy, but there are quiet pockets, free from private ...

Three of the top 10 operas performed worldwide are by the emotionally volatile Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, who died a ...

Cuts to our cultural institutions will only save a minimal amount of money, but could do a significant amount of harm.

Forcing people back to the office reeks of management insecurity, and tracking them on their computers is Orwellian. What ...

It’s exactly two and a half years since Ben Randall first started writing his weekly dog training advice column for Country ...

Historic jewellery firm Hancocks, now in its new St James’s home, specialises in old-cut diamonds pieces that gleam and turn ...

The flamboyant flowers of pelargoniums, such as ‘Appleblossom Rosebud’, will light up the garden throughout the summer.

Jousting in castles? Falconry demonstrations? That's all fine, says Athena, as long as people don't forget about the real ...

Practical and pretty under a plant pot, these Zinc Round Fluted trays cost from £3.70 each, Black Bough. The Langley ...

Rachel Podger, one of the world's leading violinists who specialises in Baroque music, chooses one of Vincent van Gogh's ...

These round songbirds have inspired not only some of our best poets, but have also sewn the seeds of the countryside around us. It has been suggested that humans are hardwired to respond positively to ...