EASTCOURT, England—The bane of Britain’s great and powerful is a couple of inches long, has warty skin and a bright orange underbelly—and the power to disrupt some of their most heartfelt ambitions.

LONDON — Britain has it in for its bats and newts — and Brussels is alarmed. A confidential EU report, seen by POLITICO, warned that U.K. plans to strip away nature protections in pursuit of economic ...

LONDON — First came the rain, and while that will never go away, Burberry has moved onto another aspect of British summer life, lounging in the countryside, preferably with a Pimm’s gin cocktail in ...

Warty newts breed from March to June and are more vulnerable to harm during this period Walkers taking dogs into community woodland are being asked to ensure their dogs do not harm a rare and ...

John and Margaret Histed own a beautiful English farmhouse in the heart of rural Wiltshire - to the south west of London. Last summer, during a series of almost Biblical rainstorms, their home was ...