The view from yours

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

The perils of the repair shop One Saturday ...

SPACE:1999 Celebrating 50 years of the sci-fi ...

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

Photographer Martin Parr shows us his singular vision of Britain

There are many reasons that an artist’s ambitions can be thwarted, including the decision to become a teacher. Later this month, an exhibition will shine a light on talent obscured by a career in the classroom