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In the book "My Family and Other Animals" by the famed naturalist Gerald Durrell, he relates an episode of his childhood (mid to late 1930s) when his family lived on the Greek island of Corfu for a few years. During this time, his two older brothers (Larry and Leslie) often duked it out when it…

There’s been some monkey business going on between Sri Lanka and China. Or at least, there was plenty being planned, but it has now been put on hold. You may not have heard about it because, unlike trophy hunting, there are no supposedly wealthy hunters to be demonised in this story. From the perspective of the Western media, the lack of a convenient enemy seems to have devalued the item’s newsworthiness. The gist of the story is that Sri Lanka was planning to export 100,000 live toque macaq...

NAME: Rachel Adam Rogers.

Ms Staunton, 67, who plays the late Queen in the hit Netflix show, looked relaxed as her husband Jim Carter, 74, was given a crash course in piloting the vessel.

A wonderful, much-missed housemate, his death ended my fantasy of having a house full of exotic creatures

By Douglas KrugerEVER watched the kids’ swimming lessons at the Aqua Splash? You’ve never seen such compelling drama. It’s the Hollyoaks of St Helier.They line up in a shivering row, dancing on tippy toes. Each is eager to be at the front of th...

It may seem as if the whole world is holidaying on the same select islands in the Med, which is crazy because there are so many to choose from. Here is our list of much more deserted isles - but don’t tell anyone.

Beat the crowds and boost your holiday spending power by heading for a lesser-known island idyll this summer

Polly Toynbee: An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals. Book review by Liz Thomson

A petition moved before the Supreme Court seeking the import of two African elephants to be housed at a zoological garden in Peshawar has been rejected by the court on the grounds that the zoo lacks...