Queen Camilla’s Christmas tree baubles hold special meaning after heartbreaking new loss
The King’s country estate at Highgrove has been decorated with a sweet nod to the Queen’s late dog Beth, who sadly had to be put down last weekend Daily Express :: News Feed
The world’s biggest tree under threat by insects which could destroy it within six months
The General Sherman Tree, located in California, is open to visitors from around the world. But, its future is threatened by a surge in destructive insects. Daily Express :: News Feed
Tree Wisdom: a guide to nature’s restorative energy and wellbeing
Trees provide a home for wildlife, purify the air and help fight climate change. Daily Express :: Books Feed
European city forced to tear down embarrassing Christmas tree because it’s so ‘ugly’
The tree in La Chaux-de-Fonds was branded “ridiculous” and “sad” by outraged residents. Daily Express :: World Feed
Review: The Carnelian Tree – when Oxford meets Iraq
It’s 2003 and Glasgow schoolteacher Judith Frazer is taking a sabbatical to study among Oxford’s gleaming spires and is sharing a house with a motley crew of people including a wealthy American, a spy, a professor and a gay student. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Rockin’ around the Christmas tree – A look back on the history of UK’s festive pop charts
It’s December 1952. London is coping with the effects of the “Great Smog”‘, an off-the-scale pea-souper caused by a mixture of coal smoke from domestic fires and power stations, freezing fog and an unusually cold snap. Daily Express :: Music Feed
France warning: Tourists pay £230 in shock fine after angry wild boar chases them up tree
A PAIR of tourists who had to hide up a tree to escape a furious wild boar have been fined over £200. The incident happened in Le Verdon in southeast France. Daily Express :: Travel Feed
Porcupine Tree – progressive rock’s point of slow return
Porcupine Tree Closure/Continuation It’s an unusual name, more suited, you might feel, to a 66-1 outsider at the Aintree Grand National than a band. But astute bookies would give short odds on this album going Top Ten before the month is out. Daily Express :: Music Feed
Brian May: ‘I’m always going through hard times’ How Another World tree helped him survive
BRIAN MAY’s Another World album cover sees the Queen legend posing next to a uniquely shaped tree in the Canary Islands. Now as the guitarist gears up to re-release his 1998 record, he’s opened up in a new video on how it helped him adapt through a very different time, as the star knew: “If […]
Enid Blyton Society blasts woke The Magic Faraway Tree rewrite: ‘Leave our classics alone’
ENID BLYTON’S The Magic Faraway Tree is no stranger to changes for political correctness, with the ‘offensive’ children’s names being changed, and now the story is undergoing another ‘woke’ rewrite. A new release from Tracy Beaker author Jacqueline Wilson will educate children about gender equality with the author admitting Blyton “wouldn’t be that thrilled” over […]