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The Queen to broadcast to the nation about coronavirus

Her Majesty The Queen has posted a message to the British people as the country is gripped by the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

Things to do: Swap the old commute for birdwatching, and enjoy the world's greatest art from home

Country Life rounds up the best things to see, do and book this week.

The brilliant tractor tribute to the NHS from a group of Warwickshire farmers

People around Britain have been paying tribute to the efforts of our NHS workers at the time of the coronavirus pandemic — but few have been as creative and clever as this one.

Purbeck Heaths becomes the first 'super' National Nature Reserve in the UK

Dorset's Landowners have combined three existing NNRs to form a biodiverse haven for wildlife, with the environment seeing phenomenal benefits already.

A message from Country Life's Editor

The Country Life team is busy working from kitchen tables, sofas and makeshift desks in bedrooms around Britain to keep bringing you the magazine each week.

2020 RHS Chelsea Flower Show latest event to be cancelled over Covid-19 fears

The Royal Horticultural Society has taken the decision to cancel the 2020 Chelsea Flower Show.

Crufts 2020: Best behind-the-scenes pictures from the iconic dog show

We celebrate the funny, touching and frankly exhausting-looking images from the world's top dog show, Crufts 2020.

Opening Britain's fridges to deregulated food would 'not only be morally bankrupt, it would be the work of the insane'

The 2020 NFU conference saw farmers, politicians and other stakeholders argue over the future of agriculture and food in Britain. James Fisher was there to report back.

The solar panels that will work even in Britain's appalling weather

A team based in one of the sunniest places on the planet claims to have invented a new type of solar panel which they claim can produce electricity even in the rainy, cloudy climate of Britain.

£3.5 million campaign launched to save Derek Jarman's iconic Prospect Cottage for the nation

Art Fund is running a campaign to save Prospect Cottage, the former home of film director Derek Jarman, which has become a place of pilgrimage in the years since his death. James Fisher reports.

Farming, the countryside and Brexit: 'If the 287 million dairy cows in the world were all as efficient as ours, we might get somewhere'

Kate Green reports back from the Oxford Farming Conference, where farmers, environmentalists and the DEFRA secretary locked horns on the future of the British countryside.

2020 anniversaries: The defining dates to look out for in the next 12 months

In Focus: How a taped banana questioned the meaning of art

Made with a banana duct-taped to a wall, The Comedian, the latest installation by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, sparked the debate on what is a work of art — especially after the fruit was eaten by performance artist David Datuna.

London's iconic red bus at risk and 6,000 year old chewing gum gives clues into our DNA history

90-million-year-old 'swimming dinosaur' skeleton found by dogs out walking in Somerset, and the nonchalant moths who don't bother fleeing enemies

Battle to ban 4x4s from the idyllic Lake District spot bequeathed by Beatrix Potter, eagle fights octopus and the 'snail's pace' climate talks

The 'perfect whisky collection' is to go under the hammer — and it's expected to fetch £8 million

Almost 4,000 rare or unusual bottles, accumulated over the course of two decades by American businessman Richard Gooding, will go on sale next years and could fetch £8 million.

County Life Today: What do the election results mean for the British countryside?

Country Life Today: How Greta Thunberg shifted the dial on climate change — and the backlash shows just how much

Bird flu outbreak hits chicken farm in Suffolk