The new TV series The Buccaneers shows in detail a time when English aristocrats were in high demand as marriage material for wealthy American girls and their socially ambitious families.
Europe s largest conservation charity today reveals what it s doing to mitigate against global warming and protect our heritage from rising sea levels, soaring temperatures and future storms and droughts. And it s calling on politicians of all parties for urgent legislation to help in the battle ahead.
The trust, which cares for 250,000 hectares of land, 780 miles of coastline and 220 gardens and parks, said approximately 71 per cent of the places it looks after could be at medium or high risk by 2060.
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