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A pride of lions silently patrolling the grassland at dusk; a cheetah closing in on its prey with mind-blowing speed; a watchful leopard curled artfully in a tree. There’s nothing quite like a big cat

DR PETER BURGESS Peter is our disease expert. Send questions his way if you have pathogen problems. BOB MEHEN Bob is a master of fishkeeping general knowledge and community tanks. JEREMY GAY Jeremy is

The venerable PENNINE WAY is the Daddy of Britain’s long-distance walks. Last year, we finally decided to tackle it – following in the footsteps of Ellie’s father, who had walked it half a century earlier. But is the trail as tough now as it was back then?

While spring and summer harvests can be fleeting, sometimes only lasting for a couple of weeks, autumnal harvesting, for fruit especially, is a longer, slower affair. Fruits such as hawthorn and sloes

Our walks this month Ian Battersby 1 Beinn ...