35 h. ago Traitors Stephen admits he tried to 'pray myself normal' in heartbreaking confession

Stephen opened up about what life was like growing up in a rural community as part of the LGBTQ+ community.

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46 h. ago Cow ‘smart watch’ to go on display at National Museum of Rural Life

The East Kilbride venue will reveal how science is transforming farming and animal care.

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50 h. ago Kid Rock's privileged past unearthed as 'truth' behind rebel persona exposed

Kid Rock often gets portrayed as a small-town American closely tied to rural life, trucks, bars, Southern rock, and country culture. However, it seems like some people are only just finding out about the All Summer Long star's 'posh' roots

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5 d. ago British Library acquires archive of rural life writer and essayist Ronald Blythe

Exclusive: Collection includes workbooks and index cards, and papers that show his research for bestseller AkenfieldOne hundred years of a unique literary rural life will be made available to readers and researchers after the British Library acquired the archive of Ronald Blythe.The author of Akenfield, a globally bestselling account of a Suffolk village in the throes of the agricultural and social revolution at the end of the 1960s, lived and wrote in East Anglia until his death in 2023 at the age of 100. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘It takes a town to raise a family’: the community sponsors supporting refugees in the UK

Groups are coming together across the country to help refugee families settle and integrate into local life“Our children correct us when we don’t pronounce some words with the proper Derbyshire accent,” says Samir*, an Afghan refugee whose family have settled into their new lives in the north of England.Initially, he says, it was difficult for the family to get used to rural life in Derbyshire, but after a while they had integrated into the local community so well that his children, who have adopted the Derbyshire accent, tease him about his. Continue reading...

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1 week ago How you can stay in the beautiful farmhouse featured in Hamnet

Staying in this 17th-century farmhouse set along winding lanes in the Welsh Marches is the closest you can get to travelling back in time and experiencing rural Elizabethan life.

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3 w. ago Why £40million Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown is shunning Hollywood to run an animal rescue charity on a remote farm in Georgia: CAROLINE GRAHAM

Far from celebrating the end of Stranger Things at a celebrity bash, Millie plans to mark the closing of this chapter in her life on her farm in rural Georgia, surrounded by her rescue animals.

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3 w. ago Scandals, grossly underpaid staff and a devastating cyber attack. Inside the nightmare at the British library

Cyber chaos, striking staff and a crisis of leadership. Claudia Cockerell investigates a national treasure’s year of reckoning

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3 w. ago Voices: ‘Enough is enough’: Readers welcome move to ban trail hunting

Our community has largely backed a ban on trail hunting, calling it foxhunting by another name, while a minority warned it would damage rural life

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3 w. ago The Standard podcast: The worst of times: Trouble at the British Library

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