There’s a new trend blowing up the internet called ‘cigs that don’t count’. It holds that a cigarette, when taken with a drink or at a funeral, should be discounted as a blip. Your lungs are fine, ...

A beefed up version of Aston Martin's DB12 moves the needle in more ways than one, as Matthew MacConnell explains.

From aristocratic pointers to glamorous Dalmatians, season two of 'Rivals' is packed with scene-stealing dogs. We paused, ...

At the turn of the millennium, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell faced a crisis. They were £1.5 million in debt after spending 17 years trying to run a farm that simply wouldn't grow the ...

Nicholls speaks to Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon.

The solution to garden-less gardening began as a happy accident, has its roots in Victorian society and, also, the colonisers ...

London's latest hotel opening has both a global outlook and a strong sense of place — inspired by the British Musseum — finds ...

The judges have judged, the awards have been awarded — and these are the gardens that won the prizes at this year's Chelsea ...

Together with tales of spectral apparitions, many mysteries surround the building of Chavenage. What is certain is that the ...

From the moment the gates opened at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, at 7am on Monday, the London borough has felt like the centre of the universe — or, at least, Country Life's universe. At our stand, ...

I love the Skipping Stone table by sculptor-furniture-maker Christopher Kurtz (www.christopherkurtz.net) for its shape and patina. He works hardwood into forms that will only get better with age. I ...