The 'Grand Designs' clause, a lesser-known aspect of planning regulations, is allowing affluent individuals to erect spectacular modern estates within the Gloucestershire countryside scenery.

Here are 40 events being held at country houses this summer, from jousting to Shakespeare, birdwatching to motor-racing and ...

It tells the story of Charlotte Heywood, who travels from her rural English home to the up ... saw Dyrham Park in Gloucestershire used as Sanditon House - the grand home of haughty upper class ...

Voters will head to the polls on Thursday, May 1 to elect their representatives on Gloucestershire County Council ... standing need for infrastructure improvements. I’m a retired art and history ...

It involves growing up poor in Southwest England’s rural Gloucestershire ... A career as an art therapist emerged as a distinct possibility. Fate, in the form of government budget cuts ...

Spring continues to spring this week, gardens and countryside are bursting back into life, and we are blessed with a bank ...

A lack of an art studio at their property in the Chilterns ... a lot of time in the country or understand the challenges of rural folk. It has also given him a new-found appreciation for the ...