For Rich, life is golden.
He fizzes with happiness and love.
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When Rich dies, he...

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object....

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The oak is our most...

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Skylarks are the heralds of our...

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When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has...

'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light.
Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started...

Christopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, pictured cathedrals as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But...