Although it’s now a beloved breakfast staple, the divisively delicious blood sausage has had a chequered and visceral history, reveals Patrick Galbraith

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IT was 150 years ago this autumn that the Dandie Dinmont Terrier Club was formed in the Scottish Borders town of Selkirk, for fans of this quirky dog with its even quirkier name. It’s now the second o

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich

THINGS ARE very quiet here at the moment. It’s weird - I am used to a life overfull of things to do. For the first time in 20 years I have no building project on the go, and general maintenance, fenci

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters