TV wildlife expert spends £22,000 transforming his humble semi into indoor Borneo rainforest

A TV animal expert who spent £22,000 building a tropical jungle inside his Oxfordshire home admits he is kept awake at night – by the animals’ mating calls. Warwick Vardy spent 20 years travelling the world locating, studying and collecting wildlife for hundreds of nature programmes for the BBC, National Geographic and Sky. Inspired by … Read more

Why remote St Helena is transforming into a winter sun hotspot

I am bobbing along beside a fish bigger than a school bus, ahead lies a boundless sea of marine life, and I have a shark’s-eye view of the southern Atlantic Ocean. This is St Helena, the edge-of-the-world British territory adrift off West Africa, and my adrenaline levels soar as I eyeball an absolutely gargantuan whale … Read more