Rolls Royce celebrates one of Rock and Roll's greatest myths, and Polestar drives for almost 23 hours on a single charge.

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The trouble is we have too few such plays: risky business should be the norm, not the anomaly. Theatre is a business, however ...

If you’d told me I’d have the best night’s sleep in a long, long time in a nearly 500-year-old inn, I would have been skeptical. Perhaps that’s why The Swan at Fittleworth has been so popular, for so ...

Where brambles once engulfed the historic gardens at Ballynure House in Co Wicklow, Ireland — home of Clare Reid Scott — ...

A master of disguise, inexplicably shy and unpredictably wild, the increasingly rare ring ouzel warrants giving any blackbird ...

The problem is that houses, castles, abbeys and monuments devoid of historical specifics become little more than generic curiosities, admired only for their strangeness or beauty. There is nothing ...

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Before the vogue for bright blue, chlorine-treated swimming pools, members of Victorian and Edwardian society built naturalistic bathing ponds inspired by the Arts & Crafts movement.

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