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Country Life, 15 Jul 2026

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ArticleThe Water Issue

Haphaz­ard devel­op­ment, lack of invest­ment and reli­ance on Vic­torian struc­tures are cre­at­ing a loom­ing water crisis in parts of Bri­tain, yet we are still more for­tu­nate than other coun­tries. It will take effort, organ­isa­tion and a lot of...

The Water Issue

ArticleMiss Katie Har­greaves

Katie is a wild­life artist spe­cial­ising in char­coal whose work has been shown at the Ber­etta Gal­lery in St James’s, Lon­don SW1, and, next week, will be on dis­play at The Game Fair at Ragley Hall, War­wick­shire (July 24–26). She is the...

Miss Katie Har­greaves

ArticleUp with the gulls, to bed with the owl

Patrick Gal­braith exper­i­ences an event­ful day in the life of the ever-chan­ging, but endur­ingly beau­ti­ful Cley estu­ary in Nor­folk The Cley estu­ary in Nor­folk is no longer the hum­ming port of medi­eval times and 21st-cen­tury life...

Up with the gulls, to bed with the owl

ArticleWhy our water is going down the drain

Invest­ment, organ­isa­tion and effort can guar­an­tee secure water sup­plies for every­one in Bri­tain, argues Lord Deben

Why our water is going down the drain

ArticleOn peak form

Artists such as Turner, Bier­stadt and Wolf took paint­ing to new heights with their depic­tions of moun­tains, finds Michael Prodger J. M. W. Turner painted the gentle poetry of moun­tains, Albert Bier­stadt their epic drama and Cas­par Wolf their...

On peak form

ArticleThe Revd Sam Wells’s favour­ite paint­ing

The St Mar­tin-in-the-fields vicar chooses a paint­ing where ‘mag­ni­fi­cent human­ity’ is laid bare I bought a print of Volpedo’s Il Quarto Stato in Bologna, Italy, in 1989. It’s hung in my nine sit­ting rooms since. I love the dif­fer­ent emo­tions...

The Revd Sam Wells’s favour­ite paint­ing