This summer, The National Trust will adopt a new method to attract visitors... burlesque dancing. Lola Lamour and her entourage -- complete with "c...
When you become a parent your children become the most precious thing you have, and it's natural to want to protect them. But is it possible to be too protective? Is there a link between 'cotton wool kids' and the shortage of practical skills demonstrated by those who want to do apprenticeships or study science and engineering at university? I think there could be.
At a time when we desperately need children to be environmentally educated, their understanding of biodiversity is being outsourced to digital media. To deprive them of the innocence of outdoor play is to jeopardise the fragile future of our environment.
In recent years there has been a boom in community led initiatives from creating new woodlands to running an orchard. These places, which are often quite small, can bring people together to share the wonder of being immersed in nature and seeing how the seasons change.
The washed-out summer turned 2012 into the year of the slug, which thrived while much of the UK's wildlife struggled in the unsettled weather, experts...
There was a lot of interest some years ago when the childhood home of Rob Roy MacGregor, the Scottish folk hero that Mel Gibson did a darn fine job of playing in Braveheart, came up for auction. It went for something like three times the guide price (I know because I was the under bidder).
The White Cliffs appeal has shown that despite the challenging economic climate that we live in today that people do still really care for special places and will come together to help save them for future generations to enjoy.
Making nature part of children's everyday experience is a simple and effective way of plugging them into the world around them. Children are naturally inquisitive and love to explore; it's about getting them hooked and excited about the simple things. It could be about watching ants marching to their nests, snails clinging to a wall or birds singing in a tree.
She peers out from inside her father's sheepskin coat on the cover of his debut solo LP, McCartney. It's 1970 and she's the firstborn child of one half of perhaps the world's greatest songwriting partnership. So enters Mary McCartney into the world of photography: as a subject.
It's a rare quality for one single place to have such a standing in a nations collective memory that it comes to symbolise the character and spirit of a country. The White Cliffs of Dover have served that function for countless generations and really do encapsulate that often over used word 'iconic'.
A £1.2 million appeal to safeguard one of England's most famous natural landmarks, the White Cliffs of Dover, has been launched by the National Trust...
The National Trust, famed for its country houses, has turned its attention to running a pub for the first time. The heritage organisation has taken...
The National Trust, famed for its country houses, has turned its attention to running a pub for the first time. The heritage organisation has taken...
But a to-do list? Don't we get enough of these with our children's educations, their diets, even their gestation in the womb. This list of "shoulds" goes against the very freeform discovery it's meant to inspire.
Getting our planning laws right was a big issue to ensure we protect our green spaces. But the countryside is not just pretty fields and forests; it is a living, breathing environment and the people who live there need to be listened to on all the issues, not just those that make prime time.
A large section of the White Cliffs of Dover has crumbled into the English Channel following a "substantial" rockfall, the Coastguard has said. Ton...
Although being "culture starved" might seem a triviality when there are children in the world actually being starved, I believe that having a general knowledge of the world about you is so important, not only for the box ticking of one's education, but for one's general existence.
Half term is greeted with a groan by many parents. Keeping the children entertained can be costly, tiresome and headache-inducing. But it doesn't h...
Experts carrying out DNA tests on the carcass of a mutilated deer for evidence of a big cat on the loose have drawn a blank. The only DNA found by ...
It has many ornate and ancient architectural gems among its collection, but the National Trust is to open the doors of a house where the straight line...
A big cat could be on the loose in Gloucestershire, experts fear. Experts have taken DNA samples from the remains of the deer found on National Tru...
One swallow does not make a spring, but the Woodland Trust has received a number of reports of blooming flowers and bursting buds as nature judders to...
A default "yes" to development should be removed from the Government's controversial planning reforms, a committee of MPs has said. Proposed change...
Mistletoe, one of our most cherished Christmas decorations, is in danger of disappearing over the next 20 years, according to the National Trust. M...
Apples are a global commodity. But recent news of Morrisons in Kent selling Chinese Fuji apples during the British apple harvest season does provoke a few questions.
